Home page of Victor M. Yakovenko

Professor of Physics, Ph. D.

Postal address:: Department of Physics; University of Maryland; College Park, MD 20742-4111; United States of America

Research group: Condensed Matter Theory
Fellow of the Joint Quantum Institute (JQI)
Member of the Center for Nanophysics and Advanced Materials (CNAM)
Office: Physics Building, room 2115
Phone: +1-301-405-6151
Fax: +1-301-314-9465
E-mail: yakovenk (at) umd (dot) edu
Web page: http://physics.umd.edu/~yakovenk/

I will be away from UMD campus on the following (approximate) dates:

March 19-22, 2013: Giving an econophysics colloquium and a condensed matter physics seminar at Texas A&M University, College Station, TX
April 9-13, 2013: Attending the annual conference of INET in Toronto
April 29 - May 1, 2013: Giving an econophysics colloquium and a condensed matter physics seminar at Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ
May 13-14, 2013: Giving a seminar at the Department of Economics, New School for Social Research, New York

My upcoming talks on UMD campus and nearby:

February 4, 2014, 9:30-10:45 am: Guest lecture on econophysics in PHYS 615 Nonlinear Dynamics of Extended Systems, room 1402 Physics Building, UMD
February 7, 2014, 1:55-2:20 pm: Econophysics talk at the Physics-Biology Mini-Symposium, room 1103 Biosciences Research Building, UMD
February 26, 2013, 4-5 pm: Econophysics colloquium at American University, Washington DC
March 4, 2014, 9:30-10:45 am: Guest lecture on econophysics in PHYS 603 Methods of Statistical Physics, room 1201 Physics Building, UMD

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ResearcherID profile A-7559-2008

Research Interests:

Unconventional superconductors: quasi-one-dimensional, organic, triplet, high-T_c, ...
Andreev bound states in superconductors
Strongly correlated materials close to a metal-insulator transition: heavy-fermions, two-dimensional electron gas, He-3 films, ...
Physical effects of high magnetic fields, the quantum Hall effect
Econophysics: Applications of statistical physics to economics and finance
Photovoltaic conversion of solar energy: Research profile and project description at the University of Maryland Energy Research Center (UMERC)
"Novel method for photovoltaic energy conversion using surface acoustic waves in piezoelectric semiconductors", Physica B 407, 1969-1972 (2012), [arXiv:0912.5390]

List of Publications (with links to online papers)

Selected Talks available on line

Links to seminars

Condensed Matter Theory Center Seminar

Last updated March 9, 2014