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
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:

April 20-23, 2016: Giving a condensed matter seminar and an econophysics colloquium at the University of California, Irvine
May 25 - June 4, 2016: Giving an econophysics colloquium at the University of Basel and an invited talk at the workshop Physics and Social Network Dynamics of the Markets at Nordita in Stockholm, Sweden
July 19-30, 2016: Giving a talk at the workshop Multi-Component and Strongly-Correlated Superconductors at Nordita in Stockholm, Sweden

My upcoming talks on UMD campus and nearby:

February 26 and 28, 2016: At the Annual Conference of the Eastern Economic Association, Marriott Wardman Park, Washington, DC
April 18, 2016, 4:30 pm: An econophysics colloquium at the Computational Materials Science Center, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA
June 27-29, 2016: At the BioPhysical Economics conference, University of DC, 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 July 19, 2016