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)
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 the "Doomsday: 13 November 2026" 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:

Econophysics: Applications of statistical physics to economics and finance; Dynamics of human population 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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Departmental Physics Colloquium

Last update 2026-2-9