Bruce Rosenblum is professor of physics and former chair of the Physics Department at the University of California at Santa Cruz. For a decade before coming to Santa Cruz he was a researcher and research manager for a large electronics company. He has consulted extensively for government and industry on technical and policy issues. His research has moved from molecular physics to condensed matter physics, and, after a foray into biophysics, has focused on fundamental issues in quantum mechanics.
After a career in industry that included two technology startups, and a second career in academic administration, Fred Kuttner devotes most of his time to teaching physics at the University of California at Santa Cruz. His research interests have included the low temperature properties of solids and the thermal properties of magnets. For the last several years he has worked on the foundations of quantum mechanics and the implications of the quantum theory.
Based on their industrial backgrounds Kuttner and Rosenblum co-teach a course, “The Physicist in Industry”, for physics majors and physics graduate students intending careers in the private sector. Their activity in both the applications of physics and the philosophical implications of quantum mechanics puts them at two extremes of the discipline.