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, January 23, 2026, 1:30 pm on Zoom: A 30-minute talk about population peak at the online conference Days of Applied Nonlinearity and Complexity (2nd DANOC) hosted by the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece
Tuesday, March 10, 2026, 4 pm: Economics Seminar about population peak at the New School for Social Research, New York
Wednesday, March 11, 2026, 3:30 pm: Colloquium about population peak at the Department of Physics and Astronomy, Rutgers University, Piscataway, New Jersey
Thursday, March 12, 2026, 4 pm: Colloquium about population peak at the Department of Physics, New York University (NYU)
Thursday, April 9, 2026, 4 pm: Colloquium about population peak at the Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA)
Friday, April 10, 2026, 10 am: Condensed Matter Seminar at the Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA)
June 29 - July 3, 2026: Two econophysics lectures at the Lake Como School on Inequality, Italy (see the poster below)
August 5-7, 2026, on Zoom: A talk about population peak at the online conference Thermodynamics 2.0 hosted in Boone, North Carolina
November 12-13, 2026: Organizing (with Stefan Thurner and Peter Turchin) the 13 November 2026 Doomsday Conference at Complexity Science Hub in Vienna, Austria in commemoration of the Science paper (1960) by Heinz von Foerster et al.

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Research Interests:

Mathematical dynamics of World Population and CO₂ Emissions
Econophysics: Applications of statistical physics to economics and finance
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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Departmental Physics Colloquium

Last update 2026-2-22