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Frederick A. Ringwald

Professor of Physics
Department of Physics
California State University, Fresno

Ph.D. in Physics, Dartmouth College, 1993

Curriculum Vitae / Publications and Preprints

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

Adventure! Excitement!


Current space weather / Sunspot numbers
Accurate time / My picture

Classes from 1999 to 2026

Research Interests: Multiwavelength observational astronomy of cataclysmic variables, nova shells, accretion disks and outflows, X-ray binaries and black holes, symbiotic stars, common envelope evolution, stellar magnetism, exoplanets, starburst galaxies, and quasars; also spaceflight, time-series analysis, and astronomical instrumentation.


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


Office:
Room 11 of the J wing of McLane Hall
(near the ground-floor Women's Room and 15 meters east of the large classroom McLane 161)

Email:
ringwald[at]csufresno.edu and replace [at] with @

Phone:
(559) 278-8426

Postal mail address:
2345 E. San Ramon Ave., M/S MH37
Fresno, CA 93740-8031
U.S.A.


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