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) umd (dot) edu
Web page: http://physics.umd.edu/~yakovenk/

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

January 10-11, 2013: Giving a colloquium at the University of California in Los Angeles
January 17-18, 2013: Giving a colloquium at the University of Florida in Gainvesville
January 26-29, 2013: Giving a colloquium at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville
April 2-7, 2013: Attending the annual conference of INET in Hong Kong
May 28 - June 2, 2013: Presenting the Niels Bohr Lecture on econophysics and a condensed matter seminar at the Niels Bohr Institute in Copenhagen,
then an econophysics seminar at the Institute for Futures Studies in Stockholm.
June 23-28, 2013: Attending the conference Spectroscopies in Novel Superconductors at Berkeley
July 27 - August 1, 2013: Giving an invited talk at the Econophysics Conference and Colloquium at the Asia Pacific Center for Theoretical Physics in Pohang, Korea.
It is a satellite conference to StatPhys25 in Seoul
September 10-15, 2013: Giving an invited talk at the conference Statistical Modeling, Financial Data Analysis and Applications, Palazzo Franchetti, Venice, Italy.

My upcoming talks on the UMD campus and nearby:

February 13, 2013: An econophysics talk at Foundations and Frontiers of Physics seminar for graduate students, UMD

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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 Physics Seminar

Last updated May 23, 2013