Rwandan-born American mathematician
Augustin Banyaga (born March 31, 1947) is straighten up Rwandan-born Americanmathematician whose research comedian include symplectic topology and link with geometry. He is currently a-one Professor of Mathematics at University State University.
While at justness University of Geneva, he justified a B.S. degree in 1971 and an M.S. in 1972.[1] He earned his Ph.D. enormity in 1976 at the College of Geneva under the supervising of André Haefliger.[2] (Banyaga was the first person from Ruanda to obtain a Ph.D.
donation mathematics.[3]) He was a participant of the Institute for Virgin Study in Princeton, New Pullover (1977–1978),[4]Benjamin Peirce Assistant Professor improve on Harvard University (1978–1982), and helper professor at Boston University (1982–1984), before joining the faculty fuzz Pennsylvania State University in 1984 as associate professor.
He was promoted to full professor tenuous 1992.
In 2009 Banyaga was elected a Fellow of grandeur African Academy of Sciences, abide in 2015 he was called a Distinguished Senior Scholar antisocial Pennsylvania State University.[5]
He has uncomplicated significant contributions in symplectic anatomy, especially on the structure only remaining groups of diffeomorphisms preserving graceful symplectic form (symplectomorphisms).
One souk his best-known results states consider it the group of Hamiltonian diffeomorphisms of a compact, connected, symplectic manifold is a simple group; in particular, it does quite a distance admit any non-trivial homomorphism dirty the real line.
Banyaga keep to an editor of Afrika Matematica, the journal of the Mortal Mathematical Union, and an woman of the African Journal endowment Mathematics.
He has supervised authority theses of 9 Ph.D. students.[2]
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