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 the UMD campus on the following (approximate) dates:

January 10-11, 2013: Giving a colloquium at the University of California in Los Angeles
January 17-18, 2013: Giving a colloquium at the University of Florida in Gainvesville
January 26-29, 2013: Giving a colloquium at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville
April 2-7, 2013: Attending the annual conference of INET in Hong Kong
May 28 - June 2, 2013: Presenting the Niels Bohr Lecture on econophysics and a condensed matter seminar at the Niels Bohr Institute in Copenhagen,
then an econophysics seminar at the Institute for Futures Studies in Stockholm.
June 23-28, 2013: Attending the conference Spectroscopies in Novel Superconductors at Berkeley
July 27 - August 1, 2013: Giving an invited talk at the Econophysics Conference and Colloquium at the Asia Pacific Center for Theoretical Physics in Pohang, Korea.
It is a satellite conference to StatPhys25 in Seoul
August 27-29, 2013: Giving a colloquium and a condensed matter seminar at the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign
September 7-14, 2013: Giving invited talks at the conferences
Models from Statistical Mechanics in Applied Sciences, University of Warwick, United Kingdom
and Statistical Modeling, Financial Data Analysis and Applications, Palazzo Franchetti, Venice, Italy
October 30 - November 2, 2013: Giving a colloquium at the University of Waterloo and attending the conference Mathematics for New Economic Thinking at the Fields Institute in Toronto
December 14-17, 2013: Attending the workshop P.W.Anderson at 90 in Princeton University and Statistical Mechanics Conference at Rutgers University

My upcoming talks on the UMD campus and nearby:

February 13, 2013, 5 p.m.: An econophysics talk at the Foundations and Frontiers of Physics seminar for graduate students, UMD
September 4, 2013, 2 p.m.: An econophysics talk at the CSCAMM/KI-Net seminar, UMD
September 5, 2013, 2 p.m.: A talk at the Condensed Matter Colloquium, UMD

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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]

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Condensed Matter Physics Seminar

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Last updated September 21, 2013