Teaching & Supervising

I am teaching astrophysics I/II courses since WiSe 2014/2015. In SoSe2020 and WiSe20/21 the astrophysics courses will only be held via Moodle. [link]

Astrophys lecture 1 Lecture: Astrophysics 1, Kassel WS2019/20
Unit No: FB1018.5520w
Lecturer: G.W.Fuchs
Exercises: F. Peterß and B. Waßmuth
Language: German
viewgraphs:
lecture 1 [prot.pdf] lecture 2 [prot.pdf]
lecture 3 [prot.pdf] lecture 4 [prot.pdf]
lecture 5 [prot.pdf] lecture 6 [prot.pdf]
lecture 7 [prot.pdf] lecture 8 [prot.pdf]
lecture 9 [prot.pdf] lecture 10 [prot.pdf]
lecture 11 [prot.pdf] lecture 12 [prot.pdf]
lecture 13 [prot.pdf] lecture 14 [prot.pdf]
exercises:
exercise 1 [prot.pdf] exercise 2 [prot.pdf]
exercise 3 [prot.pdf] exercise 4 [prot.pdf]
exercise 5 [prot.pdf] exercise 6 [prot.pdf]
exercise 7 [prot.pdf] exercise 8 [prot.pdf]
exercise 9 [prot.pdf] exercise 10 [prot.pdf]
exercise 11 [prot.pdf] exercise 12 [prot.pdf]

Astrophys lecture 2 Lecture: Astrophysics 2, Kassel SoSe2019
Unit No: FB1018.5527s
Time/venue: Wednesday, 1pm; room 1252 (AVZ) Lecturer: G.W.Fuchs & T.F. Giesen
Exercises: P. Stahl
Language: German
viewgraphs:
lecture 1 [prot.pdf] lecture 2 [prot.pdf]
lecture 3 [prot.pdf] lecture 4 [prot.pdf]
lecture 5 [prot.pdf] lecture 6 [prot.pdf]
lecture 7 [prot.pdf] lecture 8 [prot.pdf]
lecture 9 [prot.pdf] lecture 10 [prot.pdf]
lecture 11 [prot.pdf] lecture 12 [prot.pdf]
lecture 13 [prot.pdf] lecture 14 [prot.pdf]
exercises:
exercise 1 [prot.pdf] exercise 2 [prot.pdf]
exercise 3 [prot.pdf] exercise 4 [prot.pdf]
exercise 5 [prot.pdf] exercise 6 [prot.pdf]
exercise 7 [prot.pdf] exercise 8 [prot.pdf]
exercise 9 [prot.pdf] exercise 10 [prot.pdf]
exercise 11[prot.pdf]

Since WiSe 2017/18 I am leading the 'Physikalisches Seminar (Physik Bachelor)'.

Physikalsiches Seminar (Physik Bachelor) Lecture: Physikalisches Seminar (Physik Bachelor),
Kassel WiSe2018/19
Seminar leader: G.W.Fuchs
Language: German
Info material:
Introductory lecture [prot.pdf]
Seminar time table [prot.pdf]
Themes & Topics [prot.pdf]
Time schedule for introductory talks of the physics research groups' [prot.pdf]
Handout for seminarists [prot.pdf]
Topic assignment [prot.pdf]
Time schedule of seminar talks [prot.pdf]
"Aufbau eines wissenschaftlichen Vortrages"[prot.pdf]

Since SoSe 2018 I am co-organizing the 'Astrophysikalisches Seminar (Physik Master)'.

Astrophysikalsiches Seminar (Physik Master) Lecture: Astrophysik. Seminar (Physik Master),
Kassel SoSe2018
Seminar leader: B. Fricke & G.W.Fuchs
Language: German
Info material:
Themes & Topics [prot.pdf]

Lab Astrophys II, lecture 2 Lecture: Laboratory Astrophysics 2, Kassel SS2015
Lecturer: G.W.Fuchs, T.F. Giesen and work group
Language: German
lecture 2:
Mass Spectroscopy [prot.pdf]

  • Lecture on "Turbulenter Materietransport und die Chemie in Molekülwolken" as excerpt from "Turbulenzen im Interstellaren Medium", TU Berlin, April 2009 [prot.pdf] (German)

Supervising (B.Sc. / M.Sc. / PhD students)

    Master

  • Pascal Stahl, 'Aufbau eines Chirped-Pulse Mikrowellenspektrometers mit Überschalldüsenstrahl', Master thesis, Uni Kassel, 2017 [#]
  • Johanna Chantzos, 'Aufbau und Charakterisierung eines Chirped-Pulse-Mikrowwellenspektrometers', Master thesis, Uni Kassel, July 2016 [#]
  • Daniel Witsch, 'Aufbau eines Multimode-Infrarot Spektrometers', Master thesis, Uni Kassel, January 2015 [#]
  • Bachelor

  • Mona Kempkes, 'Die Systematik der APEX 12m Wasserstoffperoxid-Beobachtungskampagne der Quellen R CrA - IRS 5A und IRAS 2A', Bachelor thesis, Uni Kassel, September 2016 [#]
  • Benjamin Stanclik, 'Suche von Wasserstoffperoxid (HOOH) in den astrophysikalischen Quellen R CrA-IRS5A und IRAS-2A', Bachelor thesis, Uni Kassel, 2016 [#]
  • Carsten Rühling, 'Charakterisierung von tert-Butylphosphordibromid', Bachelor thesis, Uni Kassel, 9. Dec. 2015 [#]
  • Pascal Stahl, 'Untersuchung und Ansteuerung eines Quadrupolmassenfilters, Bachelor thesis, Uni Kassel, 31. Aug. 2015, [#]
  • Arthur Linß, 'Modellierung einer zirkumstellaren Umgebung', Bachelor thesis, Uni Kassel, 2015 [#]

MiniLab

Origins

(Leiden, 2007, by Fuchs)

Dust particles stored in a Quadrupole Trap and illuminated by a He-Ne laser - an example of an easy to construct quadrupole trap for micro-sized particles.