Konstantin "Kostya" Mikhailovich Khanin (russian: link=no, Константин Михайлович Ханин) is a Russian mathematician and physicist. He served as

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of the Department of Mathematical and Computational Sciences at the

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Background

Khanin received his PhD from the Landau Institute of Theoretical Physics in Moscow and continued working there as a

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until 1994. Afterwards, he taught at

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, at the

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, and at Heriot-Watt University before joining the faculty at the

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. Khanin was an invited speaker at the

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in Barcelona in 2000. He was a 2013 Simons Foundation Fellow. He held the Jean-Morlet Chair at the

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in 2017, and he was an

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in 2018 in Rio de Janeiro. In 2021 he was awarded

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, also known as the Humboldt Research Award, in recognition of his lifetime's research achievements.

References

Living people Landau Institute for Theoretical Physics alumni Princeton University faculty University of Toronto faculty Mathematical physicists Russian mathematicians Year of birth missing (living people) {{Russia-mathematician-stub