Don Herbison-Evans

CURRICULUM VITAE

(updated 22 June 2008)

NAME: Donald Herbison-Evans

HOME ADDRESS:

42 Verdant Siding,
Thabeban,
Bundaberg,
Queensland 4670,
Australia.

POSTAL ADDRESS:

19 Deakin Street,
Concord, NSW 2137,
Australia.

TELEPHONE:

041 608 9925

EMAIL:

donherbisonevans@yahoo.com

HOME PAGE:

http://linus.it.uts.edu.au/~don/index.html

BORN:

11 August 1937,
Birmingham, U.K.

HEIGHT:

180 cms.

WEIGHT:

81 Kgms.

MARITAL STATUS:

Divorced

NATIONALITY:

Australian

EDUCATION:

1950 - 1955 King Edward's School, Birmingham, U.K. King Edward's Scholarship
Foundation Scholarship

1957 - 1963 St. John's College, Oxford

Open Scholarship
State Scholarship
Yardley Scholarship
Birmingham City Scholarship

1961 B.A. Chemistry (Hons, 1st Class)
1963 M.A.
1963 D. Phil. by thesis entitled

"Some Chemical Applications of Magnetic Resonance".

1984 - 1990 Diploma in Dance Education

Sydney Dance Development Centre.

NATURAL LANGUAGES:

English, Latin, French (High School level)

COMPUTER LANGUAGES:

HTML, C, Pascal, Fortran, Basic, Cobol, Algol

EMPLOYMENT:

1955 - 1957 Royal Air Force (National Service) For this period, I worked as an Air Wireless Fitter, doing repair and maintenance on electronic devices in a variety of aircraft, as well as spending some time as an instructor.

1963 - 1967 Senior Research Fellow, Civil Service,
Satellite Microwave Communications Group.
Signals Research & Development Establishment,
Christchurch, U.K.

My main activity in this job was the design of microwave systems for both passive and active satellite communications. This involved the application of electromagnetic theory to a variety of situations and components, and substantial computer programming for the evaluation of complex integrals and various types of Bessel functions.

1967 - 1971 Post Doctoral Research Fellow,
Astronomy Department, University of Sydney,

This work involved the use of the Stellar Interferometer located at Narrabri, NSW. I was also responsible in part for its maintenance. In addition, I worked on the interpretation of the observations made on binary stars, involving considerable programming by computer of problems in celestial mechanics, multiparameter minimisation, and Fourier Transforms.

1971 - 1990 Lecturer (1981: Senior Lecturer)
Basser Department of Computer Science, University of Sydney

During this period , I taught courses and supervised projects at undergraduate, Honours, and postgraduate levels, on a variety of computer science topics.

Currently:

Honorary Associate: School of Computing Sciences
University of Technology, Sydney

Honorary Associate: Macleay Museum,
University of Sydney.

PUBLICATIONS:

link to list of 80 Published articles,
link to list of 48 Technical Reports.

DANCE PERFORMANCES:

  1984  "Nuclear Threat"      SDDC                     Seymour Centre, Sydney
  1985  "Nuclear Threat"      SDDC                     Michael Fowler Theatre, Wellington
  1987  "Walking & Falling"   Freelance Dance Company  Broadwalk Theatre, Sydney
  1987  "Prompt Side"         Freelance Dance Company  Civic Theatre, Orange
  1987  "Celebrations"        SDDC                     Opera House, Sydney
  1988  "Recital"             SDDC                     Greenhalgh Theatre, Sydney
  1990  "Petite Performance"  SDDC                     Greenhalgh Theatre, Sydney
  2005  "Ballroom and Latin"  Christmas in July        Concord RSL

Petite Performance
"The Haunted Ballroom"

DANCE MEDALS:

         1987 Standard Ballroom     Bronze, Silver  with Anna Piper
         1987 Latin American        Bronze, Silver  with Anna Piper
         1987 New Vogue             Bronze, Silver  with Anna Piper
   1 May 1988 New Vogue             Gold            with Anna Piper
  25 Jun 1989 Standard Ballroom     Gold            with Nina Elbourne
  17 Nov 1991 Latin American        Gold            with Nina Elbourne
   5 Apr 1998 Exhibition Ballroom   Silver          with Anna Piper
  23 Nov 2004 Exhibition Ballroom   Gold            with Anna Piper
Latin American Gold Standard Modern Ballroom Gold

DANCE TEACHING:

  • 1978 "Computers for Dance", 10x2 hours, Australian College of Physical Education
  • 1971-89 "Computers and Dance", Honours and Post-Graduate Project Supervision, University of Sydney
  • 1999 "Dance and Notation", Occasional Lecture, Dance Degree Course, Australian College of Physical Education
  • 2000 "Dance and Technology", Presentation to "Stamping Ground", Dance Camp, Bellingen
  • MAJOR DANCE PRIZES:

  • 1988 1st: Bundaberg Sugar Coast Festival: Senior Open (Standard Ballroom)
  • 1988 1st: Bundaberg Sugar Coast Festival: Senior Open (Latin-American)
  • 1989 1st: Goulburn Dance Festival: Senior 15 dance (3 styles)
  • 1989 1st: Diamant Dance Titles, Gosford : Over 50 (3 Styles)
  • 1990 1st: Steel City Titles, Newcastle : Senior Open (Latin-American)
  • 1992 1st: Hunter Valley Festival, Maitland : Heritage Senior Trophy (3 styles)
  • 1996 1st: Coffs Harbour Festival: Senior Trophy (3 styles)
  • 1998 1st: Taree Dance Titles: Senior Trophy (3 styles)
  • 1999 Gold: New Zealand Masters Games, Wanganui : DanceSport section (Showdance)
  • 1999 1st: Novocastrian Titles: Senior Trophy (3 styles)
  • 2000 Gold: New Zealand Masters Games, Dunedin : DanceSport section (Showdance)
  • 2000 1st: ANDA Summer Festival: Senior Trophy (3 styles)
  • 2000 1st: Novocastrian Titles: Senior Trophy (3 styles)
  • 2002 1st: Bundaberg Coral Coast Classic: Argentine Tango
  • 2002 1st: FATD Championships: Masters II Open (Latin-American)
  • MEMBERSHIPS: previously

    Fellow, Australian Computer Society,
    Fellow, Royal Astronomical Society,
    Fellow, Royal Society for Chemistry.

    OTHER ACTIVITIES

    1971-2006 Collecting, rearing, photographing Australian Caterpillars; Donated many photographs, specimens and records to thr Macleay Museum, University of Sydney.

    1983 "Digital Duet"

    presented Pas-de-Deux between a live and a computed dancer
    for Closing Ceremony, 10th Australian Computer Conference,
    Concert Hall, Melbourne

    1989 "Dance Gallery"

    designed and operated lighting for
    Children's Recital, SDDC, Greenhalgh Theatre, Kuring-gai College.

    2004 "The Butterfly Man"

    6 minute documentary directed by Samantha Rebillet

    2006 "Butterfly Man"

    60 minute ABC radio interview by Richard Fidler