Dennis Silverman, Professor Emeritus

• Phone: (949) 824-5149
• FAX: (949) 824-2174
• Office: Frederick Reines Hall, Room 2125
  
• E-mail: djsilver@uci.edu

My Energy Blog on UCI Blogs

Response to Fukushima (May 3, 2012) (pdf)

OLLI Talk on Richard Feynman (April 6, 2012) (pdf)

OLLI Talk on Murray Gell-Mann (April 13, 2012) (pdf)

OLLI Talk on Dark Matter (May 9, 2011) (pdf)

New Energy Plans - OLLI Talks (Dec. 7 and 14, 2009) (pdf)

New Energy Plans - Mensa Talk (Sept. 6, 2009) (pdf)

Electric Car Mileage for Chevy Volt from Equivalent Carbon Dioxide Pollution (October 3, 2010)

New Energy Plans (May 4, 2009) (pdf)

Participant in Climate Protection Action Plan for Laguna Beach (2008-9) (pdf)

Listed Speaker in UC Irvine Speakers List

California Energy Propositions 1A, 7 and 10 for November 2008 (October 2008) (Powerpoint)

John McCain and Barack Obama's Policies on Energy, by George Hume (October 2008) (Powerpoint)

Why Energy Independence May Not Be a Good Idea (August 2008)

Why Oil Energy Independence May Not Be a Good Idea (October 2008) (Powerpoint)

Critique of the Pickens Plan for Electricity and Petroleum Replacment (July 2008) (pdf)

Our Energy Future, Saddleback College Distinguished Guest Lecture Series (May. 2008) (pdf)

Our Energy Future, Saddleback College Distinguished Guest Lecture Series (May. 2008) (powerpoint)

Our Energy Future, Focus the Nation presentation (Jan. 2008) (powerpoint)

Actions for Greenhouse Gas Reduction (2007):

• How to Use Your SUV in an Environmentally Sensitive Way
• Peak Oil: Sooner, or Later? (powerpoint)
• Million Solar Roof Analysis (powerpoint)
• California Greenhouse Gas Reduction
• Southern California Household Energy Savings
• Meeting California's 2050 Emission Goal
• Fossil Fuel Savings Through Traffic Reduction
• Energy Units and Conversions for CO2 Generation

Freshman Seminar "Our Energy Future", Winter 2007:

• Fossil Fuels (Powerpoint)
• Global Warming (Powerpoint)
• Transportation (Powerpoint)
• Nuclear Power (Powerpoint)
• Energy Conservation (Powerpoint)
• Solar, Hydro and Wind Energy (Powerpoint)
  

Lectures of the U. C. Irvine Osher Lifelong Learning Institute:

"OUR ENERGY FUTURE UPDATE" COURSE LECTURES, 2008:

• Global Warming, Peak Oil, National Security, Water, Food and Lifestyle by John Bush (powerpoint)
• Natural Gas, Coal, Vehicles and Biofuels by John Bush (powerpoint)
• Renewables, Nuclear and Hybrids by George Hume (powerpoint)
• Transportation by Steve Jeckovich (powerpoint)
• Energy Policy by John Bush (powerpoint)

"OUR ENERGY FUTURE" COURSE LECTURES, 2005-6:

• Course Summary of Fuels, Technologies and Actions (powerpoint-9MBytes)
• Course Summary of Fuels, Technologies and Actions (pdf-4MBytes)
• Fossil Fuel Use, Resources and Global Warming (powerpoint) by Dennis Silverman
• Fossil Fuel Use, Resources and Global Warming (pdf) by Dennis Silverman
• Fossil Fuels (powerpoint) by John Bush
• Energy From Nuclear Fission and Fusion (powerpoint) by George Hume and Steven Jeckovich
• Solar Energy (powerpoint) by Max D. Lechtman and Paul W. Spinner
• Renewable Resources: Biological Emphasis (powerpoint) by Max D. Lechtman
• Renewable Sources of Mechanical Energy (powerpoint) by John Bush
• Energy Conservation (powerpoint) by Dennis Silverman
• Energy Conservation in Transportation and the Bush Speech on High Gas Prices (powerpoint) by Dennis Silverman
• How Will Transportation Systems be Transformed in Our Energy Future (powerpoint) by George Hume
• Conservation (powerpoint) by John Bush
• Energy Policy (powerpoint) by John Bush
• United States Dependence on Persian Gulf Oil: Can We Reduce It? (powerpoint) by John Bush
• Hydrogen Fuel Cells (powerpoint) by Carolyn Kimme-Smith

Other Lectures by Dennis Silverman

• Global Warming and Our Energy Future (PDF format)
• Global Warming and Our Energy Future (shorter update, PDF format)
• Global Warming and Our Energy Future (shorter update, powerpoint presentation)

The Particle Adventure (powerpoint presentations)

• High Energy Accelerators and Detectors
• Physics Beyond the Standard Model

Class on Copenhagen: (powerpoint presentations)

• Introduction
• Nuclear Arsenals
• Nuclear Treaties
• Nuclear Power
• Global Warming and Nuclear Power
  

Sports and Angular Momentum (powerpoint)

Extra Projects

• California Energy Data (Circa 2000-1)
• My Pictures of UC Irvine Buildings
• Solution of the Black Scholes Equation
• Ocarina Song Page

Computer Editing Documents

• Editing Math With Microsoft Word
• Using Microsoft's Word Equation Editor
• Drawing Tips Using Microsoft Word

Courses:

• Physics 136, Introduction to Particle Physics, Spring 2001
• Physics 113B, Quantum Physics, Fall 2000.
• Physics 136, Introduction to Particle Physics, Spring 2000.
• Physics 3B "A", Basic Physics II, Winter 2000.
• Physics 136, Introduction to Particle Physics, Spring 1999.
• Physics 212A, Mathematical Physics, for Spring, 1999.
• Physics 237B, Elementary Particle Theory, Winter 1999.
• Physics 212A, Mathematical Physics, Fall 1997.
• Physics 212B, Mathematical Physics, Winter 1998.
• Physics 212C, Mathematical Physics, Spring 1998.

List of Publications of Dennis Silverman, with links to recent ones.

Department Research Summary for Dennis Silverman

UC Irvine, Department of Physics and Astronomy

Transparencies of Talks:

• Right Handed Weak W-R Bosons in B-Bbar Mixing and CP Violation Experiments , poster for FPCP2003, Paris (June 3-6, 2003) (postscript 16 pages)
• Iso-singlet Down Quark Mixing And CP Violation Experiments , updated talk, May 2, 2002 (postscript, 34 pages).
• The Iso-singlet Down Quark Model and CP Violating Experiments , talk for Snowmass 2001.
• New Physics Models and CP Violation Experiments, talk at the Tropical Workshop on Particle Physics and Cosmology, San Juan, Puerto Rico, April 1-7, 1998.
• New Physics Models and CP Violation Experiments, , talk at the BaBar Physics Workshop, Orsay, France, June 17, 1997.
• Older Research Seminar Talk: New Physics Models and CP Violation Experiments (Postscript, 51 pages, 813 kbytes)