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Curriculum Vitae: Peter R. Lawson

Brief chronology

Professional memberships

Web-based publications

• P.R. Lawson, editor, Optical Long Baseline Interferometry Newsletter.
  
• P.R. Lawson, editor, Proc. 2002 Michelson Summer School (Cambridge, MA, 24-28 June 2002).
• P.R. Lawson, editor, Proc. 2001 Michelson Summer School (Flagstaff, AZ, 21-25 May 2001).
• P.R. Lawson, editor, Proc. 2000 Michelson Summer School (Berkeley, CA, 21-25 August, 2000).
• P.R. Lawson, editor, Proc. 1999 Michelson Summer School (Caltech, CA, 15-19 August, 1999).

Publications

• Listings from ADS

Orlando 2006 SPIE Papers

• P.R. Lawson Advances in Science with Stellar Interferometers 2004-2006, Proc. SPIE 6268, Advances in Stellar Interferometry, in press (2006).

• P.R. Lawson, W.D. Cotton, C.A. Hummel, F. Baron, J.S. Young, S. Kraus, K.-H. Hofmann, G.P. Weigelt, M. Ireland, J.D. Monnier, E. Thiebaut, S. Rengaswamy, and O. Chesneau, 2006 Interferometry Imaging Beauty Contest, Proc. SPIE 6268, Advances in Stellar Interferometry, in press (2006).

• P.R. Lawson, A. Ahmed, R.O. Gappinger, A. Ksendzov, O.P. Lay, S.R. Martin, R.D. Peters, D.P. Scharf, J.K. Wallace, and B. Ware Terrestrial Planet Finder Interferometer: Technology Status and Plans, Proc. SPIE 6268, Advances in Stellar Interferometry, in press (2006).

Selected publications

• P.R. Lawson and F. Malbet Optical Long Baseline Interferometry News,
  Bull. Am. Astron. Soc. 37 82.15 (2005).

• P.R. Lawson, W.D. Cotton, C.H. Hummel, J.D. Monnier, M. Zhao, J.S. Young, H. Thorsteinsson, S.C. Meimon, L. Mugnier, Guy Le Besnerais, E. Thiebaut, P.G. Tuthill, The 2004 Optical/IR Interferometry Imaging Beauty Contest,
  Bull. Am. Astron. Soc. 36 1605 (2004).

• P.R. Lawson, W.D. Cotton, C.H. Hummel, J.D. Monnier, M. Zhao, J.S. Young, H. Thorsteinsson, S.C. Meimon, L. Mugnier, Guy Le Besnerais, E. Thiebaut, P.G. Tuthill, An Interferometry Imaging Beauty Contest, Proc. SPIE 5491, New Frontiers in Stellar Interferometry, in press (2004).

  P.R. Lawson, Optical Interferometry Comes of Age, Sky and Telescope, May 2003.

• P.R. Lawson, D.M.A. Wilson, J.E. Baldwin, Desktop interferometer for optical synthesis imaging (HTML), Proc. SPIE 4838, Interferometry for Optical Astronomy II, in press (2002).

• P.R. Lawson, editor, Principles of Long Baseline Stellar Interferometry, Course Notes from the Michelson Summer School, 15-19 August 1999 (Jet Propulsion Laboratory: Pasadena, California, 2000).

• J.S. Young, J.E. Baldwin, R.C. Boysen, C.A. Haniff, P.R. Lawson, C.D. Mackay, D. Pearson, J. Rogers, D. St.-Jacques, P.J. Warner, D.M.A. Wilson, R.W. Wilson, ``New views of Betelgeuse: multi-wavelength surface imaging and implications for models of hotspot generation," Mon. Not. R. Astron. Soc., 315, 635-645 (2000).

• P.R. Lawson, T.R. Scott, and C.A. Haniff, Group-delay tracking and visibility fluctuations in long-baseline stellar interferometry, Mon. Not. R. Astron. Soc. 304, 218-224 (1999).

• D. Burns, J.E. Baldwin, R.C. Boysen, C.A. Haniff, P.R. Lawson, C.D. Mackay, J. Rogers, T.R. Scott, D. St. Jacques, P.J. Warner, D.M.A. Wilson, J.S. Young, Large amplitude periodic variations in the angular diameter of R Leonis. Mon. Not. R. Astron. Soc., 297 462-466 (1998).

• P.R. Lawson, D.M.A. Wilson, R.C. Boysen, `Retroreflector for co-aligning a pair of counter-propagating optical beams,' Engineering and Laboratory Notes, Optics and Photonics News 9 (2) February 1998. [Reprinted in Appl. Opt. 37, 8129-8130 (1998).]

• P.R. Lawson, editor, Selected Papers on Long Baseline Stellar Interferometry, (SPIE Press: Bellingham WA, 1997).

• D. Burns, J.E. Baldwin, R.C. Boysen, C.A. Haniff, P.R. Lawson, C.D. Mackay, J. Rogers, T.R. Scott, P.J. Warner, D.M.A. Wilson, J.S. Young, The surface structure and limb-darkening profile of Betelgeuse, Mon. Not. R. Astron. Soc. 290, L11-L16 (1997).

• P.R. Lawson, Bandwidth limitations and dispersion in optical stellar interferometry, Appl. Opt. 35, 5122-5124 (1996).

• L. Koechlin, P.R. Lawson, D. Mourard, A. Blazit, D. Bonneau, F. Morand, Ph. Stee, I. Tallon-Bosc, and F. Vakili, Dispersed fringe tracking with the multi-r0 apertures of the Grand Interferometre a 2 Telescopes, Appl. Opt. 35, 3002-3009 (1996).

• P.R. Lawson and J. Davis, Dispersion compensation in stellar interferometry, Appl. Opt. 35, 612-620 (1996).

• J. Davis, P.R. Lawson, A.J. Booth, W.J. Tango, and E.D. Thorvaldson, Atmospheric path variations for baselines up to 80 m measured with the Sydney University Stellar Interferometer, Mon. Not. R. Astron. Soc. 273, L53-L58 (1995).

• P.R. Lawson, Group-delay tracking in optical stellar interferometry with the fast Fourier transform, J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 12, 366-374 (1995).

• P.R. Lawson, Group Delay Tracking with the Sydney University Stellar Interferometer, (Dissertation Summary) Publ. Astron. Soc. Pac. 106, 917-917 (1994).

• P.R. Lawson, Group Delay Tracking with the Sydney University Stellar Interferometer (PDF 3MB) Ph.D., University of Sydney (1994).

• P.R. Lawson, Artifacts in PAPA camera images, Appl. Opt. 33, 1146-1153 (1994).

• P.R. Lawson, The Sydney University PAPA camera, Proc. Astron. Soc. Aust. 11, 50-54 (1994).

Selected conference proceedings

• M.R. Swain, C.K. Walker, W.A. Traub, J.W. Storey, V. Coude du Foresto, E. Fossat, F. Vakili, A.A. Stark, J.P. Lloyd, P.R. Lawson, A.S. Burrows, M. Ireland,
  The Antartic Planet Interferometer,
  SPIE Conf. 5491, New Frontiers in Stellar Interferometry, in press (2004).
  21-25 June 2004, Glasgow, Scotland, UK.

• M.R. Swain, J.P. Lloyd, W. Traub, C.K. Walker, A.A. Stark, P.R. Lawson, J. Storey, V. Coude du Foresto, E. Fossat, M. Ireland, F. Vakili
  The Antartic Planet Interferometer,
  Bull. Am. Astron. Soc. 35 #38.15 (2003).

• M.R. Swain, P.J. Dumont, P.R. Lawson, J.D. Moore, R.F. Smythe, C.K. Walker, and C.Y. Drouet d'Aubigny
  Far-infrared interferometer technology development: a progress report
  SPIE Conf. 4852, Interferometry in Space, M. Shao ed., 465-651 (2003).
  22-28 August 2002, Waikoloa, HI.

• P.R. Lawson, M.R. Swain, P.J. Dumont, J.D. Moore, and R.F. Smythe
  Cryogenic delay line for long-baseline interferometry in the far-infrared
  Second Workshop on New Concepts for Far-Infrared and Submillimeter Space Astronomy, 7-8 March 2002, College Park, MA.

• P.R. Lawson, M.R. Swain, P.J. Dumont, J.D. Moore, R.F. Smythe,
  Cryogenic optics for long-baseline interferometry in the far-infrared
  199th Meeting of the American Astronomical Society, 6-10 January 2002, Washington, DC.
  Bull. Am. Astron. Soc. 33, 1367 (2001).

• P.R. Lawson and R. Danner
  The Michelson Interferometry Summer School Program
  198th Meeting of the American Astronomical Society, 3-7 July 2001, Pasadena, CA.
  Bull. Am. Astron. Soc. 33, 860 (2001).

• M.R. Swain, P.R. Lawson, J.D. Moore, and D. Jennings
  Cryogenic delay line for far-IR interferometry in space
  36th International Astrophysical Colloquium, 2-5 July 2001, Liege, Belgium.

• P.R. Lawson, M.R. Swain, J.D. Moore, G.L. Brack,
  Cryogenic delay line for far-IR interferometry in space
  197th Meeting of the American Astronomical Society, 7-11 January 2001, San Diego, CA.
  Bull. Am. Astron. Soc. 32, 1426 (2000).

• P.R. Lawson, M.M. Colavita, P.J. Dumont, and B.F. Lane, ``Least-squares estimation and group delay in astrometric interferometers," in Interferometry in Optical Astronomy, Proc. SPIE 4006, in press (2000).

• P.R. Lawson, ``A history of stellar interferometry: from 1868 to the present," Bull. Am. Astron. Soc. 31 1406 (1999). [Abstract only. An invited talk at the 195th meeting of the American Astronomical Society: Atlanta, Georgia, 12 January, 2000.]

• P.R. Lawson, M.M. Colavita, and P.J. Dumont, ``Interferometer designs for the Terrestrial Planet Finder," in Working on the Fringe: Optical and IR Interferometry from the Ground and Space, ASP Conf. Ser. 194, 423-429 (1999).

• J.E. Baldwin, R.C. Boysen, C.A. Haniff, P.R. Lawson, J. Rogers, D. St.-Jacques, P.J. Warner, D.M.A. Wilson, J.S. Young, C.D. Mackay, ``The current status of COAST," in Astronomical Interferometry, R.D. Reasenberg, Editor, Proc. SPIE 3350, 736-745 (1998).

• P.R. Lawson, J.E. Baldwin, R.C. Boysen, C.A. Haniff, J. Rogers, D. St.-Jacques, P.J. Warner, D.M.A. Wilson, J.S. Young, C.D. Mackay, "Multi-wavelength fringe measurement with a CCD spectrometer at COAST," in Astronomical Interferometry, R.D. Reasenberg, Editor, Proc. SPIE 3350, 753-761 (1998).

• C.A. Haniff, J.E. Baldwin, D. Burns, R.C. Boysen, P.R. Lawson, C.D. Mackay, J. Rogers, D. St-Jacques, P.J. Warner, D.M.A. Wilson, and J.S. Young. "Latest results from the Cambridge Optical Aperture Synthesis Telescope." in R. Donahue and J. Bookbinder, Editors, Proc. 10th Cambridge Conference on Cool Stars, Stellar Systems, and the Sun. Cambridge MA, USA, 15-19 July 1997, in press (1998).

• P.R. Lawson, J. Rogers, C.A. Haniff, J.E. Baldwin, R.C. Boysen, D. Burns, P.J. Warner, and D.M.A. Wilson, "Future optical interferometer design," in Optical Telescopes of Today and Tomorrow, Proc. SPIE 2871, pp. 493-497 (1997).

• P.R. Lawson, "Dispersion compensation and fringe tracking," in High Angular Resolution in Astrophysics, A.M. Lagrange, ed., (Kluwer, Dordrecht), pp. 349-353 (1997).

• P.R. Lawson and A.J. Booth, "The Fringe Tracking Servo in SUSI," in Proceedings of IAU Symposium 158 on Very High Angular Resolution Imaging. J.G. Robertson and W.J. Tango, Eds., (Kluwer: Dordrecht) 184-186 (1994).

• W.J. Tango, J. Davis, P. Lawson, A.J. Booth, "Fringe Detection and Tracking in SUSI", in ESO Conference Proceedings on High-Resolution Imaging by Interferometry II, European Southern Observatory, Garching, 14-18 October, 1267-1269 (1991).

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