Astronomy Picture of the Day
today's astronomy picture

Lunar Photo of the Day
Image of the current moon phase

Frederick A. Ringwald

Associate Professor of Physics
Director, Fresno State's Observatories
Department of Physics
California State University, Fresno

Ph.D. in Physics, Dartmouth College, 1993

Curriculum Vitae / Publications and Preprints

2010 Fall Classes:
PSci 21 Elementary Astronomy
PSci 21 Elementary Astronomy Lab
Phys 4C Light and Modern Physics

Classes from Previous Semesters

Current solar images / Current space weather
Accurate time / My picture

Research opportunities for students,
teachers, and amateur astronomers.

Gallery of images from the Campus Observatory,
the Sierra Nevada, and Mount Laguna.

Adventure! Excitement!

Research Interests: Multiwavelength observational astronomy of cataclysmic variable binary stars, nova shells, accretion disks and outflows, X-ray binaries and black holes, common envelope evolution, stellar magnetism, and extrasolar planets; also spaceflight and astronomical instrumentation.
Images taken at Fresno State's Campus Observatory

E-mail: ringwald@csufresno.edu

Office: McLane 11, in the new J wing (Building J), across the outdoor "hall" from McLane 149, 151, and 161 (near the Womens' Room).

Office hours (May 13 to August 22):

By appointment only.

(559) 278-8426 : Phone
(559) 278-2371 : Secretary
(559) 278-7741 : Fax

Mailing Address:
2345 E. San Ramon Ave., M/S MH37
Fresno, CA 93740-8031, U.S.A.

At right: Some images from
Fresno State's Campus Observatory.

Here is the department brochure, which I edited. It's a pdf file, which you can read with Adobe Acrobat Reader, a free program available here. Here is a recruiting slide. Here is a larger version.



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