Seth J. Putterman

Low Temperature & Acoustics

Office: 2-234 Knudsen
Phone: (310) 825-2269

email address not available

California NanoSystems Institute

Educational Background:

• Ph.D., Rockefeller, 1970

Research Interests:

• Spontaneous Energy Focusing in Fluids and Solids
• Seth Putterman's Lab - New

Selected Recent Publications:

1. Sonoluminescence: How Bubbles Turn Sound into Light.   S. Putterman & K. Weniger, Annual Reviews Fluid Mechanics, (32),p445(2000).
2. Quantum Fokker-Planck Equation for Interacting Waves.  Seth Putterman, Rifi Sinclair, Robert Roberts. Phil.Trans. Roy Soc. A 354,951(1996)
3. Observation of Localized Structures in Non linear Vibratory Lattices.  S. Putterman, B. Denardo, B. Galvin, A. Greenfield, A. Lawaza, W. Wright. Phys. Rev. Lett. 68,1730 (1992)
4. Resonance Fluorescence and Quantum Jumps in Single Atoms: Testing the Randomness of Quantum Mechanics.   S. Putterman, T. Erber, P. Hammerling, G. Hockney, M. Porrati. Annals of Physics,190p254 (1989)