Publications

Yan Levin received B.Sc. degree in Physics and
Mathematics (1987) from  
Carnegie Mellon University and obtained M.Sc. (1989) and
Ph.D. (1992) from the University of California, Berkeley.
After this he spent two years as a postdoctoral fellow with
Michael E. Fisher at the University of Maryland. Presently
he is professor of Physics at IF-UFRGS, a senior associate
at ICTP (Trieste, Italy),  and a level  1B researcher of CNPq.

For principal directions of his research program see: 

  1. Electrostatic correlations: from plasma to biology, Rep. Prog. Phys. 65, 1577 (2002).
  2. Collisionless Relaxation in Non-Neutral Plasmas, Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 040604 (2008)
  3. Ions at the Air-Water Interface: An End to a Hundred-Year-Old Mystery?, Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 257802 (2009) (Press Commentary1, Press Commentary2, Press Commentary3)
  4. Statistical mechanics of unbound two-dimensional self-gravitating systems,  J. Stat. Mech. P05007 (2010)
  5. Ion Specificity and the Theory of Stability of Colloidal Suspensions,  Phys. Rev. Lett.  106, 167801 (2011)

List of publications ( in pdf format):


Some curiosities in physics:

A tale of two ruber ballons  (Press Commentary)

Pressão e volume em balões de festa: podemos confiar em nossa intuicão?

A magnet falling through a conducting pipe 

Levitating magnets and superconducting pipes  (Press Commentary)