Victor Yakovenko (University of Maryland)
Current Research
 Studying probability distributions and inequality in money, income, debt, and energy
consumption per capita around the world.
Forthcoming/Recent Publications
 "Global inequality in energy consumption from 1980 to 2010", Entropy, Volume 15, pp.
5565, 2013, open access http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/e15125565;
http://arxiv.org/abs/1312.6443 (with S. Lawrence, Q. Liu, and V. M. Yakovenko)
 Continuing research grant from the Institute for New Economic Thinking (INET) for the
period of 1/2013 - 12/2014 on the topic "Statistical Physics Approach to Income and
Wealth Distribution”
http://ineteconomics.org/grants/statistical-physics-approach-income-and-wealthdistribution
Other Updates
 Econophysics materials are regularly posted on a webpage:
http://physics.umd.edu/~yakovenk/econophysics/
 Coverage by the media: Press release "The Entropy of Nations”
http://jqi.umd.edu/news/entropy-nations
 Coverage by the media: TV interview on Brian Lehrer’s show in New York
http://www.cuny.tv/show/brianlehrer/PR2002638
 Coverage by the media: Appearance on TV Science Channel in the episode "Is Poverty
Genetic?” of the program "Through the Wormhole with Morgan Freeman"
http://www.sciencechannel.com/tv-shows/through-the-wormhole/videos/the-rich-dontplay-by-the-same-rules.htm
 Coverage by the media: Science magazine coverage "Physicists say it's simple" the
special section "The Science of Inequality",
http://www.sciencemag.org/content/344/6186/828
 Invited econophysics talks given at: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Physics
Department Colloquium, August 2013
 Invited econophysics talks given at: University of Maryland, CSCAMM/KI-Net Seminar,
September 2013
 Invited econophysics talks given at:American University, Washington DC, Physics
Colloquium, February 2014
 Invited econophysics talks given at: Texas A&M University, College Station, Physics
Department Colloquium, March 2014
 Invited econophysics talks given at: Rutgers University, Piscataway, Physics Department
Colloquium, April 2014
 Invited econophysics talks given at: Graduate School of the City University of New York
(CUNY), May 2014
 Invited econophysics talks given at: New School for Social Research, New York,
Department of Economics Seminar, May 2014
 Invited econophysics talks given at: Institute for New Economic Thinking (INET), New
York, May 2014