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Home Astronomy Research    2025 Neutrinos From De-excitation    2024 Radiative Opacity    2024 Neutrino Emission from Stars    2023 White Dwarfs & 12C(α,γ)16O    2023 MESA VI    2022 Earendel, A Highly Magnified Star    2022 Black Hole Mass Spectrum    2021 Skye Equation of State    2021 White Dwarf Pulsations & 22Ne    Software Instruments AAS Journals    2025 AAS YouTube    2025 AAS Peer Review Workshops 2025 ASU Energy in Everyday Life 2025 MESA Classroom Outreach and Education Materials     Solar Systems Astronomy     Energy in Everyday Life     Geometry of Art and Nature     Calculus Other Stuff:    Bicycle Adventures    Illustrations    Presentations Contact: F.X.Timmes my one page vitae, full vitae, research statement, and teaching statement.	I've been engaging learners since about 1982, first as a paid undergrad TA and tutor at UC Santa Barbara. Mainly astronomy, physics, and math. Previous institutional affiliations include UC Santa Cruz, the University of Chicago, the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and the MESA Summer School at UC Santa Barbara. Currently I teach at Arizona State University(ASU). I specialize in large enrollment, online, introductory courses. Between 2015 and 2018 I was the instructor for the largest college-credit eligible astronomy course in the world (≈15,000 enrollment per run), Introduction to Solar Systems Astronomy, offered by ASU and EdX. This experiment transitioned in 2018 to a new, but related, experiment focused on re-entry learners — the earned Admissions Program. This experiment transitioned again in 2021 to a larger vision of re-entry — the Universal Learner program. Currently this course is heavily enrolled with learners from Starbucks, Uber, the US military, and other institutional partners. My other 4 credit lecture + lab online course, Energy in Everyday Life, often hits 4-figure annual enrollments. My teaching statement. AAS Education Series: Teaching Astronomy Online - Tools and Tips: Partially in response to the March 2020 pandemic: AAS Responds to Increased Online Instructional Needs AAS Curated Content for Moving Astronomy Courses Online Open Virtual or Online Teaching Resources Undergraduate Open Education Resources: Astronomy-2e by Andrew Fraknoi, David Morrison, and Sidney C. Wolff Astronomy Education, Volume 1: Evidence-based instruction for introductory courses by Chris Impey and Sanlyn Buxner TeachAstronomy and TeachAstronomy textbook by Chris Impey Center for Astronomy Education by JPL NASA Crash Course Astronomy by Phil Plait Advanced undergraduate and first year graduate Open Education Resources: Ed Brown's Lecture Notes The Open Astrophysics Bookshelf Free browser-based planetarium programs: World Wide Telescope In-The-Sky Stellarium TheSkyLive TheSkyLive 3D Solar System StarAtlas Google Sky Open-source for desktops and laptops: XEphem Stellarium Augmented reality apps for mobile devices. Free, often with with paid upgrade options: StarWalk SkySafari Commercial, often with institutional discounts: Starry Night Stellarium Mobile Archives of Past Classes: Geometry of Art and Nature, Calculus Illustrations for my courses, and more! A place to start posting my notes: • Abundance variables • Abundance variable first derivative nuances • Abundance variable first derivative examples • Abundance variable second derivatives • Nuclear energy generation expressions • Reaction network origins • Effective reaction rates for networks • Self-heating reaction networks
	Future famous astrophysicists in action at the 2016 MESA Summer School