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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:

• April 8-11, 2015:  Attending the Annual Conference of INET in Paris
• April 17-19, 2015:  Giving an invited talk at Collective Dynamics and Model Verification at School of Mathematical and Statistical Sciences, Arizona State University in Tempe, AZ
• June 7-11, 2015:  Giving an invited talk at minisymposium Wealth Distribution and Statistical Equilibrium in Economics, part of AMMCS-CAIMS Congress in Waterloo, Canada
• June 10, 2015:  Giving an econophysics seminar at Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics in Waterloo, Canada
• June 15-19, 2015:  Giving a talk at Granada Seminar: Physics Meets the Social Sciences in La Herradura, Spain
• June 21-26, 2015:  Giving an invited talk at Workshop in Honor of the Life and Work of Richard Prange at Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems in Dresden, Germany
• July 10-16, 2015:  Giving an invited talk at Asia-Pacific Econophysics Conference at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore
• August 8-22, 2015:  Giving two lectures and a talk at School and Workshop on Strongly Correlated Electronic Systems at International Centre for Theoretical Physics in Trieste, Italy
• November 2-3, 2015:  Giving a colloquium at Queens College, NY
• November 24 - December 5, 2015:  Giving invited talks at the conference on Econophysics & Sociophysics at Jawaharlal Nehru University and University of Delhi in India, at the Indian Institute of Management in Ahmedabad, and at Beijing Normal University in China
• December 15-21, 2015:  Giving a talk at the conference Large-scale Crises: 1929 vs 2008 in Ancona, Italy
• May 30 - June 3, 2016:  Giving an invited talk at Physics and Social Network Dynamics of the Markets at Nordita in Stockholm, Sweden

My upcoming talks on UMD campus and nearby:

• January 27, 2015, 12:30 pm:  Econophysics seminar at the National Socio-Environmental Synthesis Center (SESYNC) in Annapolis, MD
• April 29, 2015, 5 pm:  Foundations and Frontiers of Physics talk for graduate students, room 2136 in Physical Sciences Complex (PSC), UMD
• May 21, 2015, 10 am:  At the Annual Conference of the Society of Government Economists, George Washington University in Washington, DC
• July 9, 2015, 9:30 am:  At CNAM Research Symposium, Shipp/Wantz conference room in Riggs Alumni Center, UMD
• September 8, 2015, 11-12:15:  Guest lecture on econophysics in PHYS 615, room 2136 in Physical Sciences Complex (PSC), UMD
• October 22, 2015, 6 pm:  A talk for the Society of Physics Students, room 2136 in Physical Sciences Complex (PSC), UMD

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• 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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