Frederic V. "Rick" Hessman

hessman AT astro DOT physik DOT uni-goettingen DOT de
Friedrich-Hund-Platz 1, 37077 Göttingen, Germany
Tel. +49-551-39-5052
FAX  +49-551-39-5043



Professional Interests:

  • Project Manager of the MONET / Astronomie & Internet Project;
  • physics of accretion disks;
  • close binary stars, cataclysmic variables;
  • pre-main sequence stars;
  • robotic telescopes;
  • telescope networking;
  • Weyl/Conformal gravity as an alternative to Dark Matter & Dark Energy.
  • The Virtual Observatory, include astronomical event reporting and efforts to support the creation of an astronomical semantic web


    • Refereed Publications:

    ADS

    Teaching:

  • Blockveranstaltung für Lehramtskandidat/inn/en : "Astronomie & Internet";
  • Astrophysikalisches Praktikum;
  • XLAB;
  • Astronomical image processing with ImageJ
  • Hands-On Universe and other curricula for using astronomy to teach middle/high school mathematics, physics, and computer science.

  • An Introduction to Astronomical Image Processing with ImageJ,
    together with Prof. E. Modrow (Mathematical Faculty & the Max Planck Gymnasium Göttingen).

    Other Interests:


    Regional coordinator for the International Year of Astronomy 2009 (see the German site and my list of school projects in German).

    Patrick       Christopher