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 (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 16-21, 2017: Giving a Condensed Matter Seminar and a Physics Colloquium at the University of Utah, Salt Lake City
July 16-22, 2017: Giving an invited talk at the Annual Meeting of the Canadian Society of Applied and Industrial Mathematics (CAIMS 2017), Halifax, Canada
September 6-7, 2017: Giving a Colloquium at Wayne State University, Detroit
October 20-24, 2017: Attending the Plenary Conference of INET in Edinburgh, Scotland
December 25-30, 2017: Giving an invited talk at the Center for New Structural Economics, Peking University, Beijing

My upcoming talks on UMD campus and nearby:

Wednesday, February 1, 2017, 2-3:15 pm: Guest lecture on econophysics in the course PHYS615 Nonlinear Dynamics of Extended Systems
Thursday, October 12, 2017, 12:45-14 pm: Guest lecture on econophysics in the course PHIL 2281 Philosophy of the Environment, Department of Philosophy, George Washington University, Washington, DC
Saturday, October 28, 2017, 10 am - 12 noon: Saturday Morning Physics lecture "Statistical Mechanics of Money" at UMD
November 27 or 29, 2017, 12:30-1:45 pm: Guest lecture "5 years in a net-zero-electricity solar home" in the course ENEE489I Solar Energy Conversion

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Research

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ResearcherID profile A-7559-2008

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

Joint Quantum Institute Seminar

Last updated September 20, 2017