Home page of Victor M. Yakovenko

Professor of Physics, Ph. D.

Affiliation:: Department of Physics; University of Maryland; College Park, MD 20742-4111; United States of America
Mailing address:: Condensed Matter Theory Center; 4401 Atlantic Building; University of Maryland; College Park, MD 20742
Street address:: Atlantic Building; 4254 Stadium Drive; College Park, MD 20742

Research group: Condensed Matter Theory
Member of Condensed Matter Theory Center (CMTC)
Fellow of Joint Quantum Institute (JQI)

Office 4415 in Atlantic Building (ATL 224): Directions
Phone +1-301-405-6151
E-mail yakovenk (at) umd (dot) edu
Departmental Web listing and personal Web page: http://physics.umd.edu/~yakovenk/

My upcoming talks on Zoom. Eastern US time is shown by default. Ask me for Zoom links.

Thursday, April 2, 2020, 12 noon: Econophysics colloquium at Department of Physics, Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT, video record available upon request
Thursday, May 28, 2020, 12 noon (7 pm Greek time): Two-hour guest lecture in econophysics course at Northern Greece
Monday, June 1, 2020, 2 pm: Econophysics seminar at The Growth Lab, Center for International Development, Harvard Kennedy School
Tuesday, June 16, 2020, 10 am (3 pm British time): Econophysics colloquium at Department of Physics, Oxford University
Tuesday, June 23, 2020, 9:15 - 9:45 am: Econophysics talk at the conference Thermodynamics 2.0 in Massachusetts

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List of Publications (with links to online papers)

Research Interests:

Econophysics: Applications of statistical physics to economics and finance
Unconventional superconductors: quasi-one-dimensional, organic, triplet, high-T_c, breaking time-reversal symmetry, ...
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
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]

Selected Talks available on line

Links to seminars

Joint Quantum Institute Seminar

Last update 2020-6-10