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Résumé — Gavin Richard Putland

Personal

Born: Home Hill, Qld, Australia

Resident: Melbourne, Australia

Religion: “Greek” Orthodox (since 1988)

Marital status: Never married.

Highest qualification

PhD in Electrical Engineering (University of Queensland, 1996) for the thesis Modeling of Horns and Enclosures for Loudspeakers, supervised by Dr. L. V. Skattebol.

Publications

(a) Journal articles:

G. R. Putland, “Thermal Time Constants and Dynamic Compressibility of Air in Fiber-Filled Loudspeaker Enclosures”, J. Audio Engineering Soc. (New York), vol. 46, no. 3 (March 1998), pp. 139-151. [Winner of an AES Publications Award; see vol. 48, no. 11 (November 2000), p.1077.]

G. R. Putland, “Acoustical Properties of Air vs. Temperature and Pressure”, J. Audio Engineering Soc., vol. 42, no. 11 (November 1994), pp. 927-933.

G. R. Putland, “Every One-Parameter Acoustic Field Obeys Webster's Horn Equation”, J. Audio Engineering Soc., vol. 41, no. 6 (June 1993), pp. 435-451.

G. R. Putland, “Comments on ‘Acoustic Waveguide Theory’ ”, J. Audio Engineering Soc., vol. 39, no. 6 (June 1991), pp. 469-471. Reprinted in Loudspeakers Volume 4: Transducers, Measurement and Evaluation (New York: Audio Engineering Soc., 1996), pp. 184-186.

(b) Book contributions:

B. Boashash & G. R. Putland, “Polynomial Wigner-Ville Distributions”, in B. Boashash (ed.), Time-Frequency Signal Analysis and Processing: A Comprehensive Reference (Elsevier, 2003; ISBN 0-08-044335-4), Article 5.4, pp. 185-192.

B. Boashash & G. R. Putland, “Design of High-Resolution Quadratic TFDs with Separable Kernels”, in B. Boashash (ed.), ibid., Article 5.7, pp. 213-222.

B. Boashash & G. R. Putland, “Discrete Time-Frequency Distributions”, in B. Boashash (ed.), ibid., Article 6.1, pp. 232-241.

B. Boashash & G. R. Putland, “Computation of Discrete Quadratic TFDs”, in B. Boashash (ed.), ibid., Article 6.5, pp. 268-278.

(c) Conference paper:

G. R. Putland & B. Boashash, “Can a signal be both monocomponent and multicomponent?” Third Australasian Workshop on Signal Processing Applications (WoSPA 2000), Brisbane, December 14-15, 2000, Paper 32 (PDF © QUT SPRC).

(d) Magazine article:

G. R. Putland, “A Light Beam for a Finderscope”, Sky and Telescope (Cambridge, MA), vol. 82, no. 4 (October 1991), pp. 418-420.

Employment highlights

Since June 2006: Research Officer, Prosper Australia:

Preparation of papers and other educational resources on the advantages of raising public revenue from economic rent and removing taxes on productive activities.

July 2003 to June 2006: Communications Officer, Prosper Australia:

Educating the public on the advantages of raising public revenue from economic rent and removing taxes on productive activities.

October 1999 to June 2003: Senior Research Assistant, Signal Processing Research Centre, Queensland University of Technology:

Selected research, co-writing, technical editing, reviewing, programming, computation and graphing, typesetting, copy-editing, desktop publishing.

1995 to 1997: Lecturer A, Dept. of Electrical & Computer Engineering, University of Queensland:

Lecturing on Signals & Systems (Semester 2/96), 3rd-year circuit theory (1/97), 2nd-year electronics (2/97). Coordination of 3rd-year laboratory subject (1/96 to 2/97), 4th-year seminars (2/96 to 2/97), 4th-year theses (2/96 to 2/97). Developing PowerPoint slides and tutorial questions/solutions for parts of the new introductory EE subject (2/95).

February 1989 - June 1993: Tutor, University of Queensland Union College:

Tutoring introductory subjects in Engineering Mathematics (1989-93), Pure and Applied Mathematics (1990), Electrical Engineering (1991-2).

1992: Senior Tutor, University of Queensland Union College:

Coordinating the pastoral and tutorial programs in the College.

1990: Tutorial Assistant, Dept. of Electrical Engineering, University of Queensland:

Tutoring in 3rd-year Electronics Lab. Revising scripts for 12 hours of laboratory work.

1989: Casual Tutor, Dept. of Mathematics, University of Queensland:

Tutoring six Engineering Mathematics subjects.

1986 to 1987: Engineer Class 2, Radio Design (Country) Section, Telecom Australia:

Path designs for customer and low-capacity radio bearers and Digital Radio Concentrator Systems, including Monto, Duaringa, Jericho, Mitchell, Muttaburra and Augathella DRCSs.

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