Department of Physics

Fred Ringwald

Title: Professor of Physics
Office: McL 11
Phone: (559) 278-8426
Fax: (559) 278-7741
Email: ringwald@csufresno.edu
Homepage: http://zimmer.csufresno.edu/~fringwal/index.html

Fall 2021 Office Hours:


Day	Hours
M/W	3:30 PM to 5 PM
T/Th	5 PM to 6 PM

Fall 2021 Classes:


Class	First Name	Last Name	Email
PHYS 4C	3:30 PM to 4:45 PM	T/Th	McL 162
PHYS 175T	12:30 PM to 1:45 PM	T/Th	McL 258
PHYS 290	ARR
PHYS 299	ARR
PSCI 21	2 PM to 3:15 PM	M/W	McL 162

Professor Ringwald's full schedule and contact instructions

Academics

Ph.D., Dartmouth College

Areas of Expertise and Interest

Astronomy research at Fresno State is carried out by Professor Ringwald and his students. It is mainly about cataclysmic variable binary stars and related objects. These include novae, black holes and neutron stars, white dwarfs and hot subdwarfs, and the physics of their accretion disks and outflows. Other research interests include common envelope evolution, stellar magnetism, stellar winds, flare stars, and exoplanets. Fresno State has two observatories. The Campus Observatory, on the grounds of the Downing Planetarium, is where students get hands-on experience with astronomical instrumentation. Fresno State's station at Sierra Remote Observatories, 47 miles from campus at a superb, dark site in the Sierra Nevada mountains, is operated mainly by remote control from campus over the Internet. Professor Ringwald welcomes ideas from students wanting to do their own research projects, especially if they can be carried out with the equipment we have now.

Selected Publications

1. A recent refereed paper, which lists three Fresno State students as co-authors, is here:

http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2012NewA...17..570R

2. A second recent refereed paper, which also lists three Fresno State students as co-authors, is here:

http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2012NewA...17..433R