Boris Khesin
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Boris Aronovich Khesin (in Russian: Борис Аронович Хесин, born in 1964) is a Russian and Canadian mathematician working on infinite-dimensional Lie groups, Poisson geometry and hydrodynamics. He has held positions at the University of California, Berkeley, Yale University, and currently is a professor at the University of Toronto.
Khesin obtained his Ph.D. from Moscow State University in 1990 under the supervision of Vladimir Arnold (Thesis: Normal forms and versal deformations of evolution differential equations).[1]
From 1990 to 1992 he was Morrey Assistant Professor at the University of California at Berkeley and from 1992 to 1996 assistant professor at Yale University. In 1997/98 and in 2012 he worked at the Institute for Advanced Study. In 1996 he became associate professor and in 2002 professor at the University of Toronto.[2]
He is an editor of the Complete Works of Vladimir Arnold.
His wife, Maria Khesin, is a computer scientist also at the University of Toronto.[3]
