Donald F. Figer
Rochester Institute of Technology
Chester F. Carlson Center for Imaging Science
54 Lomb Memorial Drive
Rochester Institute of Technology
Rochester, NY 14623-5604

Telephone: 585-747-6020

 

EDUCATION

Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles, Astronomy                                                         1995

M.S., University of Chicago, Astronomy and Astrophysics                                                      1991

B.A., Northwestern University, Triple Major: Physics (Hon.), Math, Astronomy (Hon.)         1989

 

HONORS AND AWARDS

NYSTAR Faculty Development Award for Establishment of an Infrared Detector Test and Development Laboratory at Rochester Institute of Technology                                                                       November, 2005

NASA Space Act Award for contributions to “4 Megapixel, High-Sensitivity Infrared Detector Array for Space Astronomy”                                                                                                                       June, 2004

AURA STScI Technology and Innovation Award                                                              May, 2004

UCLA Distinction in Teaching Award                                                                               June, 1995

 

EXPERIENCE

Professor, Rochester Institute of Technology                                             January, 2006 to current

Principal Investigator, A Radiation Tolerant Detector for NASA Planetary Missions

Awarded $592,000 (2007-2010).                                             April 2007 to current

Principal Investigator, A Low Noise CMOS Detector for NASA Space Missions

Awarded $847,000 (2007-2010).                                         January 2007 to current

Manager, LSST Guider                                                                    August, 2006 to current

Awarded $175,000 (2007-2010).

Director, Rochester Imaging Detector Laboratory                          January, 2006 to current

Principal Investigator, The Most Massive Stars (LTSA)                 January, 2005 to current

Awarded $1,109,000 (2005-2010).

Recipient, NYSTAR Faculty Development Award for Establishment of an Infrared Detector Test and Development Laboratory at Rochester Institute of Technology

Awarded $720,000 (2005-2008).                                     November 2005 to current

Recipient, RIT First in Class Award for Establishment of an Infrared Detector Test and Development Laboratory at Rochester Institute of Technology

Awarded $540,000 (2005-2008).                                     November 2005 to current

Principal Investigator, Si PIN Demonstration at a Telescope

Awarded $28,770 (2006).                                                November 2005 to current

Principal Investigator, JDEM Detector Testing Project                  January, 2005 to current

Awarded $27,000 (2006).

Principal Investigator, SNAP Detector Testing Project                      April, 2004 to current

Led project to measure detector characteristics for SNAP detectors.

Awarded $22,000 (2004), $27,000 (2005), $15,000 (2006).

Principal Investigator, LSST CMOS Detector Testing Project           April, 2004 to current

Led project to measure detector characteristics for LSST CMOS detectors.

Awarded $78,000 (2004) plus $25,000 (2005) plus $126,000 (2006).

Detector Scientist, SNAP                                                             November, 2004 to current

Awarded $21,000 (2006).

Detector Scientist, LSST                                                                  January, 2004 to current

Principal Investigator, Massive Star Clusters (Spitzer, Cycle 3)                                           

Awarded $30,445 (2006).                                                         May, 2004 to current

Principal Investigator, Mid-Infrared Spectroscopy of the Most Massive Stars (Spitzer, Cycle 1)   

Awarded $28,000 (2006).                                                         May, 2004 to current

Detector Scientist, TPFc/Mag30+                                               June, 2005 to January, 2006

Consultant, HST WFC3                                                             January, 2006 to June, 2006

Principal Investigator, JWST NIRSpec DQE Project             June, 2005 to February, 2006

Associate Astronomer, Space Telescope Science Institute                January, 2004 to January, 2006

Instrument Scientist, HST WFC3                                       December 2004 to January, 2006

Detector Scientist, JWST                                                  November, 2001 to January, 2006

Instrument Scientist, JWST NIRCam                                August, 2003 to December, 2004

Adjunct Assistant Professor, Johns Hopkins University                              May, 2000 to May, 2002

Led effort to establish the Independent Detector Testing Laboratory that characterizes detector focal planes for use in ground-based and space-based astronomy applications.

                                                                                                    Awarded $200,000.

Assistant Astronomer, Space Telescope Science Institute                      July, 1999 to January, 2004

Principal Investigator, JWST NIRSpec detector testing project                                           

                                                                                              January, 2001 to October, 2003

Directed project to measure detector characteristics for JWST NIRSpec project.

Awarded $73,000 (2003).

Principal Investigator, Comparative Characterization of NIR Detectors for NGST            

                                                                                              January, 2001 to October, 2003

Directed project to measure near-infrared detector characteristics for prototype JWST detectors. Awarded $960,000 (2001-2003) plus $273,000 (2003).

Next Generation Space Telescope Instrument Scientist.

Lead, NEXUS Instrument Scientist for STScI.

Principal Investigator, Target Field Simulation Testbed for NGST                                      

                                                                                              January, 2000 to January, 2001

Directed project to measure detector characteristics for wavefront sensing applications on NGST. Awarded $200,000 (2000-2001).

Principal Investigator, Independent Detector Testing Laboratory                                        

                                                                                              January, 2000 to January, 2003

Led effort to establish the IDTL. Awarded $300,000 (2000-2003).

Assistant Research Astronomer, UCLA, Department of Physics & Astronomy

                                                                                                   October, 1996 to July, 1999

Principal Investigator, FLITECAM, a 1-5 um first-light camera for SOFIA

                                                                                       July, 1997 to October, 1998

Set system-level specifications for first camera to be delivered to the SOFIA airborne observatory. Served as Principal Optical Designer. Awarded $920,000.

Principal Investigator, HST/NICMOS GO7364: Compact Young Clusters and the r-2 Cusp near the Galactic Center                                                                          September, 1997 to September, 1999

Identified the “Pistol Star” as one of the most massive stars known (STScI-PR97-33), and Arches Cluster as containing more O-stars than any other cluster in the Galaxy (STScI-PR99-30).

Awarded $146,000.

Principal Optical Designer and Local Project Scientist, NIRSPEC

                                                                                                              October, 1995, to June, 1999

Assembled NIRSPEC optics in preparation for commissioning in 1999. Continued role as optical designer and Local Project Scientist for NIRSPEC.

Postdoctoral Research Fellow, UCLA, Division of Astronomy & Astrophysics, Department of Physics & Astronomy.                                                                                June, 1995 to October, 1996

Designed optics for the NIRSPEC high-resolution spectrograph to be used on the Keck II telescope. Performed optical design, opto-mechanical tolerance analysis, and managed subcontracts with Optics 1, Inc., Breault Research Organization, SSG, Inc., Speedring Systems, Inc., and other vendors.

Principal Opto-mechanical Designer, MIST (Medical Imaging and Scanning Technologies)

                                                                                                     November, 1994 to October, 1995

Designed prototype non-invasive imaging systems for brain hematoma and breast cancer detection.

Ph.D. candidate, UCLA, Division of Astronomy & Astrophysics, Department of Physics & Astronomy.  June, 1992 to June, 1995

Researched and discovered members of the hot, young stellar population at the Galactic Center.

Research Assistant, UCLA, Department of Astronomy.                            June, 1992 to May, 1994

Designed high-speed low-noise analog electronics for controlling and reading InSb and HgCdTe IR focal plane arrays in the UCLA Gemini camera. Designed optics for NIRSPEC, the high resolution IR spectrograph for the Keck II Telescope.

Research Technician, University of Chicago, Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics.

                                                                                                           November, 1991 to June, 1992

Designed and constructed motion-control and sensing system for the Astrophysical Research Consortium GRIM IR camera.

Research Assistant, University of Chicago, Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics.              

                                                                                                           June, 1989 to November, 1991

Researched the direction of interstellar magnetic fields in star-forming regions and at the Galactic Center. Designed and constructed two-axis motion control electronics with automated computer control, position encoder electronics, and manual front-panel button controls. Designed and constructed robotic lab testing system for far-infrared cameras and polarimeters.

Teaching Assistant, University of Chicago, Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics.

                                                                                                      September, 1989 to January, 1990

Assisted in the implementation of CCD camera for a teaching telescope laboratory. Taught introductory level students how to use the associated software.

Undergraduate Researcher, Northwestern University, Department of Physics and Astronomy

                                                                                                           September, 1987 to June, 1989

Designed, built, and used a high-speed photoelectric photometry data acquisition system on 1 meter telescope.

Experiment Assistant, Fermilab, Batavia, Illinois.                             June, 1987 to September, 1987

Performed diagnostic testing of experiment data acquisition electronics. Built experiment hardware and wrote temperature probe display software.

Undergraduate Researcher, Northwestern University, Department of Physics and Astronomy.

                                                                                                           September, 1986 to June, 1987

Programmed pattern recognition software for Fermilab experiment, D0 (proton-antiproton annihilation).

PROFESSIONAL TRAINING

Project Management

September 27-28, 2000

Technical Presentations

May 9-10, 2000

Principles of Optical Systems Layout

January 25, 1994

 

TOOLS

Circuit Design: HSpice, PSpice, Douglas Electronics Schematic, Mac CAD

Mechanical Design: CADKey, Ashlar Vellum

Optical Design: ZEMAX, Code V

Operating Systems: UNIX, VAX/VMS, Windows, MS DOS, Mac

Languages: IDL, FORTRAN, 80X86 Assembler, Forth, 68HC11 Assembler, BASIC, Pascal, C, IRAF.

Observatories: HST, Gemini, UKIRT, Kuiper Airborne Observatory, NASA Infrared Telescope Facility, Lick Observatory, Keck Observatory

 

Students Advised

Linpeng Cheng, RIT

Young Sam Yu, RIT

Hitesh Gadi, RIT

Lance Simms, Stanford University

Utkarsh Sharma, JHU

            Stella Jang, JHU

 

Post-doctoral Scholars Advised

            Sungsoo Kim, KHU

Ben Davies, RIT

Qingfeng Zhu, RIT

Jingjing Zhang, RIT

Lucy Hadfield, RIT

Maria Messineo, RIT

Refereed Papers

1.                  Kim, S. S., Figer, D. F., Kudritzki, R. P., & Najarro, F. N. 2006, The Arches Cluster Mass Function, Astrophysical Journal Letters, 653, L113

2.                  Tuthill, P., Monnier, J., Tanner, A., Figer, D., Ghez, A., Danchi, W. 2006, Pinwheels in the Quintuplet Cluster, Science, 313, 935

3.                  D. Figer, J. MacKenty, M. Robberto, K. Smith, F. Najarro, R. Kudritzki 2006, Discovery of an Extraordinarily Massive Young Stellar Cluster, ApJ, 643, 1166

4.                  Tanner, A., Figer, D. F., Najarro, P., Kudritzki, R. P., Gilmore, D., Morris, M., Becklin, E. E., McLean, I. S., Gilbert, A. M., Graham, J. R., Larkin, J. E., Levenson, N. A., & Teplitz, H. I. 2006, High Spectral Resolution Observations of the Massive Stars in the Galactic Center, Astrophysical Journal, 641, 891

5.                  Kim S. S., Figer, D. F., Lee, M. G., & Oh, S. 2005, Theoretical Isochrones with Extinction in the K Band, PASP, 117, 445

6.                  Figer, D. F., Najarro, F., Geballe, T. R., Blum, R. D., & Kudritzki, R. P. 2005, Massive Stars in the SGR 1806-20 Cluster , Astrophysical Journal Letters, 622, L49

7.                  Figer, D. F. 2005, An upper limit to the masses of stars, Nature, 34, 192

8.                  Najarro, F., Figer, D. F., Hillier, D. J., & Kudritzki, R. P. 2004, Metallicity in the Galactic Center: The Arches cluster, Astrophysical Journal Letters, 611, L105

9.                  Figer, D. F., Najarro, F., & Kudritzki, R. P. 2004, The Double-lined Spectrum of LBV 1806-20, Astrophysical Journal Letters, 610, L109

10.              Kim S.S., Morris, M., & Figer, D.F. 2004, Dynamical Friction on Galactic Center Star Clusters with a Central Intermediate-Mass Black Hole, Astrophysical Journal, 607, L123

11.              Figer, D. F., Rich, R. M., Kim, S. S., Morris, M., & Serabyn, E. 2004, An Extended Star Formation History for the Galactic Center from Hubble Space Telescope/NICMOS Observations, Astrophysical Journal, 601, 319

12.              Figer, D. F., Gilmore, D., Kim, S. S., Morris, M., Becklin, E. E., McLean, I. S., Gilbert, A. M., Graham, J. R., Larkin, J. E., Levenson, N. A., & Teplitz, H. I. 2003, High Precision Stellar Radial Velocities in the Galactic Center, Astrophysical Journal, 599, 1139

13.              Figer, D. F., Najarro, F., Gilmore, D., Morris, M., Kim, S. S., Serabyn, E., McLean, I. S., Gilbert, A. M., Graham, J. R., Larkin, J. E., Levenson, N. A., & Teplitz, H. I. 2002, Massive Stars in the Arches Cluster, Astrophysical Journal, 581, 258

14.              Stolte, A., Grebel, E. K., Brandner, W., & Figer, D. F. 2002, The Mass Function of the Arches Cluster from Gemini Adaptive Optics Data, Astronomy &Astrophysics, 394, 459

15.              Roe, H. G., Graham, J. R., McLean, I. S., de Pater, I., Becklin, E. E., Figer, D. F., Gilbert, A. M., Larkin, J. E., Levenson, N. A., Teplitz, H. I., & Wilcox, M. K. 2001, The Altitude of an Infrared Bright Cloud Feature on Neptune from Near-infrared Spectroscopy, Astronomical Journal, 122, 1023

16.              Carson, Jennifer E., Larkin, James E., McLean, Ian S., Graham, James R., Becklin, E. E., Figer, Donald F., Gilbert, Andrea M., Levenson, N. A., Teplitz, Harry I., Wilcox, Mavourneen K. 2001, Resolved IR Spectroscopy of Two High Redshift Radio Galaxies, Astrophysical Journal, 563, 63

17.              Moneti, A., Stolovy, S., Blommaert, J. A. D. L., Figer, D. F., & Najarro, F. 2001, Mid-Infrared Imaging and Spectroscopy of the Enigmatic Cocoon Stars in the Quintuplet Cluster, Astronomy and Astrophysics, 366, 106

18.              Mumma, M. J. et al. 2001, A Survey of Organic Volatile Species in Comet C/1999 H1 (Lee) Using NIRSPEC at the Keck Observatory, Astrophysical Journal, 546, 1183

19.              Kim, S. S., Figer, D. F., Lee, H. M., & Morris, M. 2000, N-body Simulations of Compact Young Clusters Near the Galactic Center, Astrophysical Journal, 545, 301

20.              Teplitz, H. I. et al. 2000, Measurement of [OIII] Emission in Lyman Break Galaxies, Astrophysical Journal, 542, 18

21.              Figer, D. F., Becklin, E. E. , McLean, I. S. , Gilbert, A. M., Graham, J. R., Larkin, J. E., Levenson, N. A., Teplitz, H. I., Wilcox, M. K., & Morris, M., 2000, 2-micron Spectroscopy within 0.3 arcseconds of Sgr A*, Astrophysical Journal Letters, 533, L49

22.              Gilbert, A. M. Graham, J. R., McLean, I. S. , Becklin, E. E. , Figer, D. F., Larkin, J. E., Levenson, N. A., Teplitz, H. I., & Wilcox, M. K., 2000, Infrared Spectroscopy of a Massive Obscured Star Cluster in the Antennae Galaxies (NGC 4038/9) with NIRSPEC, Astrophysical Journal Letters, 533, L57

23.              Levenson, N. A., Graham, J. R., McLean, I. S. , Becklin, E. E. , Figer, D. F., Gilbert, A. M. Larkin, J. E., Teplitz, H. I., & Wilcox, M. K., 2000, Hot Stars and Cool Clouds: The Photodissociation Region M16, Astrophysical Journal Letters, 533, L53

24.              Larkin, J. E., McLean, I. S., Graham, J. R., Becklin, E. E., Figer, D. F., Gilbert, A. M., Glassman, T. M., Levenson, N. A., Teplitz, H. I., & Wilcox, M. K., 2000, Discovery of an Obscured Broad Line Region in the High Redshift Radio Galaxy MRC 2025-218, Astrophysical Journal Letters, 533, L61

25.              Teplitz, H. I., McLean, I. S. , Becklin, E. E. , Graham, J. R., Figer, D. F., Gilbert, A. M. Larkin, J. E., Levenson, N. A. Wilcox, M. K., 2000, The Rest-Frame Optical Spectrum of MS 1512-cB58, Astrophysical Journal Letters, 533, L65

26.              McLean, I. S., Graham, J. R., Becklin, E. E., Figer, D. F., Gilbert, A. M. Larkin, J. E., Levenson, N. A., Teplitz, H. I., & Wilcox, M. K., 2000, J-band Infrared Spectroscopy of a Sample of Brown Dwarfs using NIRSPEC on Keck II, Astrophysical Journal Letters, 533, L45

27.              Geballe, T. R., Najarro, F., & Figer, D. F. 2000, A Second Luminous Blue Variable in the Quintuplet Cluster, Astrophysical Journal Letters, 530, L97

28.              Lang, C. C., Figer, D. F., Goss, W. M., & Morris, M. 1999, Radio Detections of Stellar Winds from the Pistol Star and from other Stars in the Galactic Center Quintuplet Cluster, Astronomical Journal, 118, 2327

29.              Figer, D. F., Kim, S. S., Morris, M., Serabyn, E., Rich, R. M., & McLean, I. S. 1999, HST/NICMOS Observations of Massive Stellar Clusters Near the Galactic Center Astrophysical Journal, 525, 750

30.              Figer, D. F., Morris, M., Geballe, T. R., Rich, R. M., Serabyn, E., McLean, I. S., Puetter, R., & Yahil, A. 1999, High-Resolution Infrared Imaging and Spectroscopy of the Pistol Nebula: Evidence for Ejection, Astrophysical Journal, 525, 759

31.              Figer, D. F., McLean, I. S., & Morris, M. 1999, Astrophysical Journal, Massive Stars in the Quintuplet, Astrophysical Journal, 514, 202

32.              Serabyn, E., Shupe, D., & Figer, D. 1998, An Extraordinary Cluster of Massive Stars in the Milky Way’s Core, Nature, 394, 448.

33.              Figer, D. F., Najarro, F., Morris, M., McLean, I. S., Geballe , T. R., Ghez, A. M., & Langer, N. 1998, The Pistol Star, Astrophysical Journal, 506, 384.

34.              Figer, D. F., McLean, I. S., & Najarro, F. 1997, A K‑band Spectral Atlas of Wolf‑Rayet Stars, Astrophysical Journal, 486, 420.

35.              Blum, R. D., Ramond, T. M., Conti, P. S., Figer, D. F., & Sellgren, K. 1997, H‑Band Spectroscopic Classification of OB Stars, Astronomical Journal, 113, 1855.

36.              Figer, D. F., McLean, I. S., & Morris, M. 1995, Two New Wolf-Rayet Stars and a Luminous Blue Variable Star in the Quintuplet (AFGL 2004) Near the Galactic Center, Astrophysical Journal Letters, 447, L29.

37.              Levine, D. A., Figer, D. F., Morris, M., & McLean, I. S. 1995, A Circumstellar H2O Maser Associated with the Circumnuclear Molecular Disk at the Galactic Center? Astrophysical Journal Letters, 447, L101.

38.              Hildebrand, R. H., Davidson, J. A., Dotson, J., Figer, D. F., Novak, G., Platt, S. R., & Tao, L. 1993, Polarization of the Thermal Emission from the Dust Ring at the Center of the Galaxy, Astrophysical Journal, 417, 565.

39.              Morris, M., Davidson, J. A., Werner, M., Dotson, J., Figer, D. F., Hildebrand, R. H., Novak, G., & Platt, S. R. 1992, Polarization of the Thermal Arches at the Galactic Center, Astrophysical Journal Letters, 399, L63.

Conference Proceedings/Other

1.                  Radeka, V., Geary, J. C., Gilmore, K., Nordby, M., Tyson, J. A., Oliver, J., Figer, D., & Stubbs, C. 2007, The LSST Sensor Development Program, AAS, 0.86.LSST

2.                  Mercer, A., Chizek, M., Lang, C. C., Figer, D. F., & Najarro, P. 2007, High Resolution Radio Observations of the Nebulae of Luminous Blue Variable Stars, AAS, 101

3.                  Wachter, S., Kouveliotou, C., Patel, S., Figer, D., & Woods, P. 2007, Spitzer Space Telescope Observations of SGR and AXP Environments, AAS, 131

4.                  Brown, M. G., Bebek, C., Bernstein, G., Bonissent, A., Carithers, B., Cole, D., Figer, D., Gerdes, D., Gladney, L., & Lorenzon, W. 2006, Development of NIR detectors and science-driven requirements for SNAP, SPIE, 6276, 96

5.                  Geary, J., Figer, D., Gilmore, D. K., O'Connor, P., Oliver, J., Radeka, V., Stubbs, C., Takas, P., & Tyson, J. A. 2006, The LSST sensor technologies studies, SPIE, 6276, 1

6.                  Schubnell, M. et al. 2006, Near infrared detectors for SNAP, SPIE, 6276, 23

7.                  Seshadri, S. et al. 2006, Characterization of NIR InGaAs imager arrays for the JDEM SNAP mission concept, SPIE, 6276, 25

8.                  Oh, S. K., Kim, S. S., Figer, D. F. & Morris, M. 2006, Mass Distribution in the Central Few Parsecs of Our Galaxy, Black Holes: From Stars to Galaxies - Across the Range of Masses, International Astronomical Union. Symposium no. 238, held 21-25 August, 2006 in Prague, Czech Republic, S238, #120

9.                  Baggett, S., Brown, T., Boucrarut, R., Figer, D., Hartig, G. F., Kimble, R., MacKenty, J., Robberto, M., Telfer, R. C., Quijada, M. A., Quijano, J., Arsenovic, P., Allen, G., Hilbert, B., Lupie, O. L., Townsend, J. M. 2006, Filters for WFC3, SPIE, 6265

10.              O'Connor, P., Radeka, V., Figer, D., Geary, J. C., Gilmore, K., Oliver, J., Stubbs, C. W., Takacs, P. Z., Tyson, J. A. 2006, Study of silicon thickness optimization for LSST, SPIE, 6276, 53

11.              R.A. Kimble, J.W. MacKenty, R.J. Hill, M. Robberto, G. Delo, R. Foltz, E.M. Malumuth, S. Reed, A.M. Russell, A. Waczynski, Y. Wen, D. Figer, WFC3 Team 2006. Improved Infrared Focal Plane Arrays for HST/Wide Field Camera 3, AAS, #125.02

12.              S. Baggett, R. Boucarut, R. Telfer, J. Kim-Quijano, M. Quijada, P. Arsenovic, T. Brown, M. Dailey, D. Figer, G. Hartig, B. Hilbert, R.A. Kimble, O. Lupie, J. MacKenty (STScI), T. Madison, M. Robberto, S. Rice, J. Shu, J. Townsend 2006, Characterization Tests of WFC3 Filters, AAS, #125.01

13.              D. Figer, J. MacKenty, M. Robberto, K. Smith, F. Najarro, R. Kudritzki 2006, Discovery of an Extraordinarily Massive Young Stellar Cluster, AAS, #91.02

14.              M. G. Brown, M. Schubnell, G. Tarle, R. Smith, M. Bonati, D. Guzman, D. Figer, N. Mostek, S. Mufson, D. Cole, S. Seshardi, SNAP Collaboration, SNAP Simulation Team 2006, Development of NIR Detectors and Science Driven Requirements for SNAP, AAS, #73.04

15.              S. S. Kim, D. F. Figer, M. G. Lee 2006, Nonlinear Reddening Behavior in the Near-Infrared Color-Magnitude Diagram, AAS, #133.12

16.              Tarle, G. et al. 2005, Issues and Science Driven Specifications for the Near Infrared Detector System for SNAP, AAS, #131.05

17.              O'Connor, P., Figer, D., Geary, J., Gilmore, K. Oliver, J., Radeka, V., Stubbs, C., Takacs, P., Tyson, A., & 2004, LSST Focal Plane and Detector Development, AAS, #108.07

18.              Meixner, M., Doering, R., Knezek, P., Indebetouw, R., Barkhouser, R., Smee, S., Figer, D. F., Churchwell, E., Fruchter, A., MacKenty, J. 2004, Design study for the WIYN high resolution infrared camera, AAS, #49.12

19.              Figer, D. F., Regan, M., & Morse, E. 2004, Si PIN Detector Testing for LSST, AAS, #108.08

20.              Oh, S., Kim, S. S., Figer, D. F. Morris, M. 2005, Mass Distribution in the Central Few Parsecs of Our Galaxy, AAS, #24.03

21.              Figer, D. F. & Kim, S. S., 2004, Massive Binaries in the Galactic Center, Canada, at Massive Stars in Interacting Binaries, Invited Talk , in press

22.              Figer, D. F., 2004, The Stellar Initial Mass Function in the Galactic Center, Sienna, Italy, at IMF at 50, Invited Talk, in press

23.              Sivaramakrishnan, A., Morse, E., Makidon, R. B., Bergeron, L. E., Casertano, S., Figer, D.F., Acton, D. S., Atcheson, P. D., & Rieke M. J. 2004, Limits on routine wavefront sensing with NIRCam on JWST, SPIE, 5487, in press

24.              Rauscher, B.J., Regan, M.W., Figer, D.F., Boeker, T., Jakobsen, P., Strada, P., Brambora, C., Ericsson, A., Manthripragada, S., Mott, B., Shakoorzadeh, K., Balleza, J., & Morse, E. 2004, Detectors for the JWST Near-Infrared Spectrograph, SPIE, 5487, in press

25.              Rauscher, B.J., Boeker, T., Figer, D.F., Jakobsen, P., Regan, M.W., Strada, P., Balleza, J., Brambora, C., Ericsson, A., Manthripragada, S., Mott, B., Shakoorzadeh, K., & Morse, E. 2004, Detectors for the JWST Near-Infrared Spectrograph, AAS, 204, #11.02

26.              Meixner, M., Doering, R., Knezek, P., Indebetouw, R., Barkhouser, R., Smee, S., Figer, D. F., Churchwell, E., Fruchter, A., MacKenty, J. 2004, Design study for the WIYN high resolution infrared camera, SPIE, 5492, 1440

27.              Figer, D.F. 2004, Young Massive Clusters in the Galactic Center, 2004, in ASP Conf. Ser. 322, The formation and evolution of massive young star clusters, eds. H.J.G.L.M. Lamers, L.J. Smith & A. Nota (San Francisco: ASP), 49

28.              Kim S.S., Morris, M., & Figer, D.F. 2004, Dynamical Friction on Galactic Center Star Clusters with a Central Intermediate-Mass Black Hole, 2004, in ASP Conf. Ser. 322, The formation and evolution of massive young star clusters, eds. H.J.G.L.M. Lamers, L.J. Smith & A. Nota (San Francisco: ASP), 475

29.              Rauscher, B.J., Strada, P., Regan, M.W., Figer, D.F., Jakobsen, P., Moseley, H.S., & Boeker, T. 2004, Detectors for the JWST Near-Infrared Spectrometer, BAAS, 203, 124.07

30.              Figer, D. F., Rauscher, B. J., Regan, M. W., Morse, E., Balleza, J., Bergeron, L., & Stockman, H. S. 2004, Independent Testing of JWST Detector Prototypes, SPIE, 5167, 270

31.              Rauscher, B. J., Figer, D. F., & Regan, M. 2003, Silicon PIN Diodes: A Promising Technology for UV-Optical Space Astronomy, NHST Workshop