Victor Yakovenko (U of Maryland, College Park)
Current Research
 Studying global probability distribution of energy consumption per capita around the
world using EIA data
Forthcoming/Recent Publications
 Applications of statistical mechanics to economics: Entropic origin of the probability
distributions of money, income, and energy consumption, in Social Fairness and
Economics: Economic essays in the spirit of Duncan Foley (L. Taylor, A. Rezai, and T.
Michl, Editors), Routledge (2013) 53-82. (Proceedings of the symposium in honor of
Duncan K. Foley on occasion of his 70th birthday.)
 Invited review of the book “The Physics of Wall Street: A Brief History of Predicting the
Unpredictable” (2013) by J. O. Weatherall, Physics Today 66, August 2013, p. 50.Other
Updates
 Received grant from the Institute for New Economic
 Thinking (INET) on the topic “Statistical Physics Approach to Income and Wealth
Distribution” http://ineteconomics.org/grants/statistical-physics-approach-income-andwealth-distribution
 Invited Speaker: General Conference of IARIW, Boston, 2012
 Invited Speaker: Econophysics Colloquium, ETH Zurich, 2012
 Invited Speaker: Annual Conference of the Society of, Government Economists, George
Washington University,, Washington DC, 2012
 Invited Speaker: Econophysics Colloquium and Asia Pacific, Econophysics Conference,
Asia Pacific Center for Theoretical Physics,, Pohang University of Science and
Technology, Korea, 2013
 Invited Speaker: Models from Statistical Mechanics in, Applied Sciences, Mathematics
Institute, University of, Warwick, UK, 2013
 Invited Speaker: Statistical modeling, financial data analysis and applications, Palazzo
Franchetti, Venice, Italy, 2013