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
Member of Condensed Matter Theory Center (CNAM)
Fellow of Joint Quantum Institute (JQI)
Member of Center for Nanophysics and Advanced Materials (CNAM)
Office 2115 in John S. Toll Physics Building (PHY 082)
Phone +1-301-405-6151
Fax +1-301-314-9465
E-mail yakovenk (at) physics (dot) umd (dot) edu
Departmental Web listing and personal Web page: http://physics.umd.edu/~yakovenk/

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

January 4, 2018: Giving a talk at the annual conference of the International Confederation of Associations for Pluralism in Economics (ICAPE) in Philadelphia
May 6-12, 2018: Giving an invited talk at the conference Novel Superconductors: Materials and Properties at Nordita in Stockholm, Sweden
July 15-21, 2018: Participating in the program Statistical Techniques for Time Series Analysis and Many-Body Quantum Theory and conference Time Series, RMT, Econophysics and Others at Centro Internacional de Ciencias in Cuernavaca, Mexico
September 5-9, 2018: Attending the 30th Anniversary Reunion of the Packard Foundation Fellows in San Diego, California
September 24-30, 2018: Giving a plenary talk at the conference Computer Simulations in Physics and Beyond in Moscow and a colloquium at the Landau Institute for Theoretical Physics in Chernogolovka, Russia
January 24, 2019: Giving a colloquium at the University of Toledo, Ohio
March 20, 2019: Giving a colloquium at Rice University, Houston, Texas
May 30-31, 2019: Giving an invited talk at the conference Inequality, Entropy, and Econophysics at Columbia University, New York City

My upcoming talks on UMD campus and nearby:

Thursday, March 1, 2018, 12:30-1:30 pm: "Economic inequality from a statistical physics point of view", Applied Dynamics Seminar at UMD
Friday, March 16, 2018, 10-10:45 am: "Loop currents from nonunitary chiral superconductivity on the honeycomb lattice", CMTC Symposium at UMD

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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]

List of Publications (with links to online papers)

Selected Talks available on line

Links to seminars

Joint Quantum Institute Seminar

Last updated August 25, 2018