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) physics (dot) 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, 2014: Giving an econophysics colloquium and a condensed matter physics seminar at Texas A&M University, College Station, TX
April 9-13, 2014: Attending the annual conference of INET in Toronto
April 29 - May 1, 2014: Giving an econophysics colloquium and a condensed matter physics seminar at Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ
May 12-14, 2014: Giving econophysics talks in New York
at the Graduate School of the City University of New York (CUNY),
at the Department of Economics, New School for Social Research,
at the Institute for New Economic Thinking (INET)
June 28 - July 4, 2014: Giving a talk at Low Energy Electrodynamics in Solids (LEES), Loire Valley, France
August 10 - September 1, 2014: Giving a talk at the International School and Workshop on Electronic Crystals (ECRYS), Cargèse, Corsica, France
October 6 - 9, 2014: Giving an invited talk at Modeling and Control in Social Dynamics, Department of Mathematics, Rutgers University Camden, NJ

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, 2014, 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
September 10, 2014, 3:30-4:30 pm: Econophysics colloquium at the Department of Physics, University of Maryland Baltimore County (UMBC)
October 31 - November 1, 2014: Invited talk at the conference Recent Innovations in Info-Metrics, Info-Metrics Institute, Department of Economics, American University, Washington DC

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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]

List of Publications (with links to online papers)

Selected Talks available on line

Links to seminars

Condensed Matter Theory Center Seminar

Last updated June 22, 2014