Konstantin Khanin | |
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Khanin in 2014 at the Mathematical Research Institute of Oberwolfach
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Alma mater | Landau Institute of Theoretical Physics |
Awards | Simons Fellow (2013) Jean-Morlet Chair, CIRM (2017) Invited Speaker, ICM 2018 |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Mathematics Statistical mechanics Ergodic theory |
Institutions |
Landau Institute of Theoretical Physics Princeton University Isaac Newton Institute Heriot-Watt University University of Toronto |
Doctoral advisor | Yakov G. Sinai |
Konstantin "Kostya" Mikhailovich Khanin (Russian: Константин Михайлович Ханин) is a Russian mathematician and physicist. Khanin received his PhD from the Landau Institute of Theoretical Physics in Moscow and continued working there as a research associate until 1994. Afterwards, he taught at Princeton University, at the Isaac Newton Institute in Cambridge, and at Heriot-Watt University before joining the faculty at the University of Toronto. Khanin was an invited speaker at the European Congress of Mathematics in Barcelona in 2000. He was a 2013 Simons Foundation Fellow. He held the Jean-Morlet Chair at the Centre International de Rencontres Mathématiques in 2017, and he is an Invited Speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians in 2018 in Rio de Janeiro.