Home page of Victor M. Yakovenko

Professor of Physics, Ph. D.

Affiliation:: Department of Physics; University of Maryland; College Park, MD 20742-4111; United States of America

Mailing address:: University of Maryland; 4254 Stadium Drive; Atlantic Bldg JQI Rm 2207; College Park, MD 20742
Street address:: Physical Sciences Complex; 4296 Stadium Drive; College Park, MD 20742

Office 2133 in Physical Sciences Complex (PSC, building 415)
Phone +1-301-405-6151
E-mail yakovenk (at) umd (dot) edu
Departmental Web listing and personal Web page: http://physics.umd.edu/~yakovenk/

Scheduled local and Zoom talks and out-of-state travel. Eastern US time is shown by default. Ask me for Zoom links, if applicable.

Friday, April 12, 2024, 3:30 pm: An econophysics colloquium at the Department of Physics and Astronomy, George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia
Wednesday, July 10, 2024, 4 pm, room IRB 4105: A talk on population growth for REU program at UMD (REU = Research Experiences for Undergraduates)
Monday, August 5, 2024, 11 am, on Zoom: A talk on population growth at the online conference Thermodynamics 2.0 hosted in Boone, North Carolina
August 18 - 31, 2024: Giving an invited colloquia-level talk at the International School and Workshop Electric and Optical Impacts on Correlated Electronic States (IMPACT), Cargèse, Corsica, France
Monday, September 23, 2024, 12:30 pm, on Zoom: An econophysics colloquium at the Department of Biochemistry, Chemistry, and Physics, Georgia Southern University, Statesboro, Georgia
Tuesday, October 15, 2024, 12:30 pm, room 3206 in Kirwan Hall MTH building: A talk on population growth for Mathematical Biology Seminar at UMD
Tuesday, November 19, 2024, 3 pm, room 1410 in Toll Physics PHY building: Physics Colloquium on population growth at UMD
Wednesday, January 22, 2025, 4 pm, JILA Auditorium: An econophysics colloquium at the Department of Physics, University of Colorado, Boulder

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Research Interests:

Econophysics: Applications of statistical physics to economics and finance; Dynamics of human population growth and CO₂ emissions
Optical control of magnetism
Unconventional superconductors: quasi-one-dimensional, organic, triplet, high-T_c, breaking time-reversal symmetry, ...
Andreev bound states in superconductors
Physical effects of high magnetic fields, the quantum Hall effect
Strongly correlated materials close to a metal-insulator transition: heavy-fermions, two-dimensional electron gas, He-3 films, ...

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Last update 2024-9-19