Home page of Victor M. Yakovenko

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Department of Physics

University of Maryland

College Park, MD 20742-4111

United States of America

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

My upcoming talks on UMD campus and nearby:

• February 1, 2017, 2-3:15 pm:  Guest lecture on econophysics in the course PHYS615 Nonlinear Dynamics of Extended Systems

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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]

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Joint Quantum Institute Seminar

Condensed Matter Theory Center Seminar

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