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Assistant Physics Professor, Pre-Engineering Coordinator
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Assistant Professor | Rollins College
August 2016 - Present
Visiting Assistant Professor | Rollins College
August 2015 - July 2016
Graduate Research Assistant | The Pennsylvania State University
August 2010 - August 2016
National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellow
Ph.D. in Acoustics, The Pennsylvania State University, 2016
M.S. in Acoustics, The Pennsylvania State University, 2012
B.S. in Music (Clarinet) and Mathematics, Murray State University, 2009
Coyle, W.L., Gabriel, J.D.*., A method for automatic detection of articulation in clarinet playing. J. Acoust. Soc. of America - Express Letters, (submitted), 2018.
Coyle, W.L., P. Guillemain, J. Kergomard and J.P. Dalmont. Predicting playing frequencies for clarinets: a comparison between numerical simulations and simplified analytic formulas, Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 138, 2770-2781, 2015.
Coyle, P. Guillemain, and J. Kergomard. Rapid creation of tuning maps for a clarinet using analytic formulas, Proceedings of the International Symposium on Musical Acoustics, pages 295–299, 2014
Coyle, J. Kergomard, P. Guillemain, C. Vergez, and A. Guilloteau. An attempt at predicting the variation in playing frequencies for clarinets. Proceedings of the Stockholm Music Acoustics Conference, pages 350–357, 2013.
Coyle, W.L., (2018). Using an artificial mouth to measure tuning homogeneity. (in press), The Clarinet [online, print], http://clarinet.org/.
Dent, M., Coyle, W.L., (2018). Ask an Acoustician: Whitney Coyle, Acoustics Today [online, print], http://acousticstoday.org/ask-acoustician-whitney-coyle/.
Gabriel, J.D.*, Coyle, W.L., (2019). Automatic detection of clarinet articulations. Presented at the Acoustical Society of America meeting, Louisville, KY.
Coyle, W.L., Moore, T.R., (2018). Using speckle imaging of air flow inside musical instruments to improve computational models. Presented at the Acoustical Society of America meeting, Victoria, Canada.
Moore, T.R., Coyle, W.L., (2018). Flow visualizations using electronic speckle pattern interferometry. Presented at the Acoustical Society of America meeting, Victoria, Canada.
Coyle, W.L., Moore, T.R., (2017). Flow visualizations using electronic speckle pattern interferometry. Presented at the Acoustical Society of America meeting, New Orleans, LA, USA.
Coyle, W.L., (2017). Diving into the deep end: transition from student to professor. Presented at the Acoustical Society of America meeting, Boston, MA, USA.
Coyle, W.L., (2015). The Clarinet: past, present and future. Presented at the Acoustical Society of America meeting, Jacksonville, FL, USA.
Coyle, W.L., Guillemain, P., Doc, J.-B., Guilloteau, A., Vergez, C., (2014). Descriptive maps to illustrate the quality of a clarinet. Presented at the Acoustical Society of America meeting, Indianapolis, IN, USA.
Coyle, W.L., (2014). From musical acoustics to outdoor sound and back. Presented at the Acoustical Society of America meeting, Providence, RI, USA.
Moore, T.R., Coyle, W.L., (2019). Experimental flow visualizations in an organ pipe using electronic speckle pattern interferometry. Presented at the Acoustical Society of America meeting, Louisville, KY.
Gabriel, J.D.*, Coyle, W.L., (2018). Studying the clarinet with an artificial mouth: comparison of playing frequencies between model and measurement. Presented at the Acoustical Society of America meeting, Victoria, Canada.
Coyle, W.L., (2017). Using an artificial mouth to measure tuning homogeneity. Presented at the International Clarinet Association’s ClarinetFest, Orlando, FL, USA.
Coyle, W.L., (2015). A study of the acoustical characteristics of a quality clarinet. Presented at the International Clarinet Association’s ClarinetFest, Madrid, Spain.
Coyle, W.L., Kergomard, J., Guillemain, P., (2014). Rapid creation of tuning maps for a clarinet using analytic formulas. Presented at the International Symposium on Musical Acoustics, Le Mans, France.
Coyle, W.L., Kergomard, J., Guillemain, P. (2014). Clarinet playing frequency predictions: Comparison between analytic and numerical simulations. Presented at the Acoustical Society of America meeting, Providence, RI, USA.
Coyle, W.L., Sparrow, V.W., Ikelheimer, B., (2013). Using simplified terrain and weather mapping in outdoor sound propagation predictions. Presented at the Acoustical Society of America meeting, San Francisco, CA, USA.
Coyle, W.L., (2013). An attempt at predicting the variation in playing frequencies for clarinets. Presented at the Stockholm Musical Acoustics Conference (SMAC), Stockholm, Sweden.
Coyle, W.L., Sparrow, V.W., Ikelheimer, B., Downing, M., James, M., Bradley, K., Mellon, J., (2011). Propagation in a realistic outdoor environment. Presented at the Acoustical Society of America meeting, San Diego, CA, USA.
Behrens, S.L., Coyle, W.L., Goodweiller, N.P., Cottingham, J.P., (2009). Vibrational modes of accordion reeds. Presented at the Acoustical Society of America meeting, San Antonio, TX, USA.
Coyle, W.L., Behrens, S.L., Cottingham, J.P., (2009). Influence of accordion reed chamber geometry on reed vibration and airflow. Presented at the Acoustical Society of America meeting, San Antonio, TX, USA.
Richard, C.K.*, Coyle, W.L., (2017). Velocity analysis of the vacuum-driven clarinet reed. Poster presented at the Acoustical Society of America meeting, Boston, MA, USA.
Coyle, W.L., Richard, C.K.*, (2017). An investigation of the reed’s vibrating surface area. Poster presented at the International Symposium on Musical Acoustics, Montreal, Canada.
Coyle, W.L., (2012). Analytical formulas to predict clarinet playing frequencies. Poster presented at the JJCAS, Marseille, France.
* indicates an undergraduate student
Coyle, W.L., (2018). Clarinet Acoustics: in search of quality markers for musical instruments. Presented at the Navy Post Graduate School, Monterey, CA, USA.
Coyle, W.L., (2016). The Flame Challenge with Alan Alda: “What is Sound” – musical sound. Presented at the World Science Festival, New York, NY, USA.
https://www.worldsciencefestival.com/videos/flame-challenge-what-is-sound/
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