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Image of the current moon phase

Frederick A. Ringwald

Associate Professor of Physics
Director, Campus Observatory
Department of Physics
California State University, Fresno

Ph.D. in Physics, Dartmouth College, 1993

Curriculum Vitae / Publications and Preprints

2009 Fall Classes:
PSci 21 Elementary Astronomy
Phys 151 Observational Astronomy
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, X-ray binaries and black holes, accretion disks and outflows, stellar magnetism, common envelope evolution, extrasolar planets, spaceflight, astronomical instrumentation.
Hubble images of the novae QU Vul (left) and V351 Pup (right), and the gas shells they expelled

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 18 to August 21):
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 above right: QU Vul (top) and V351 Pup (bottom), two novae that erupted in 1984 and 1991, respectively. These images were taken during my first Hubble Space Telescope project. For more about them, see the press release.

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.

Click for Fresno, California Forecast

Top Dog Web Site Last updated 2008 June 16. Web page by Dr. Ringwald ( ringwald@csufresno.edu )
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