CSULB Physics and Astronomy: Paul Hintzen

Professor, Astronomy

Ph.D., University of Arizona, 1975
B.Sc., University of Minnesota, 1971

Location:
Office: PH1, Room 212

California State University, Long Beach
Department of Physics & Astronomy
1250 Bellflower Blvd.
Long Beach, CA 90840-3901

Phone: (562) 985-8619 Office
Fax: (562) 985-7924
Email: hintzen@csulb.edu

Research Interest:

Our current understanding of the evolution of the universe is based on converging results from observations of stars, clusters of galaxies, and the cosmic microwave background. For example, each of these three fields provides an independent measure of the age of the universe using physical processes occurring on vastly different scales. My interests include observational studies of the late stages of stellar evolution, the stellar composition of galaxies, and the intracluster medium in rich clusters of galaxies.

Thesis Defense

Atomic Three-body Resonances

Alfonso Vergara,

February 12, 2010, 11am, PH2-110.

Colloquium:

Astrophysical Signatures of Quark-Matter Phase Transition - The Quark-Nova

R. Ouyed, University of Calgary, Canada

February 15, 2010, 11am, PH2-110

Introduction to Zotero

Library workshop for the College of Natural Sciences and Mathematics

K. Duong, Library

February 25 and March 8, 4pm, Spidell Lab 1, Room 116, Library Bldg.

Welcome to our two new faculty:

Dr. Abate (left) is a condensed matter experimentalist, who graduated from the University of Iowa. His interests are in near-field microscopy and spectroscopy imaging in metals and semiconductors, plasmonics in nanoparticles and the physics of metamaterials.

Dr. Jaikumar is a nuclear astrophysicist who graduated from SUNY at Stony Brooks. His interests are in high-density matter and its relation to astrophysical phenomena in neutron stars.