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 4-7, 2012: Attending the Dynamic Days conference in Baltimore
January 17, 2012: Giving a talk at the University of Kentucky in Lexington
January 19-20, 2012: Giving a colloquium at Syracuse University
April 19-20, 2012: Giving a colloquium at New York University and a talk at a symposium at the New School for Social Research
May 2-3, 2012: Giving a colloquium at Washington University in St. Louis
May 24-26, 2012: Attending the ICAM Annual Conference in New York

My upcoming talks on the UMD campus and around:

January 31, 2012: Colloquium "Living in a Solar-Powered Home" at Physics Department
February 6, 2012: Econophysics talk at the seminar series Aspects of Statistical Mechanics with Applications, Department of Mathematics
February 22, 2012: Econophysics talk for the APS Mid-Atlantic Senior Physicists Group, American Center for Physics, College Park
April 26, 2012: Talks on Solar Energy at the Clark School Engineering Sustainability Workshop, Jeong H. Kim Engineering Building

Personal Information

Photo Gallery

Research

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

Condensed Matter Physics Seminar

Last updated April 6, 2012