Background
Banyaga, Augustin was born on March 31, 1947 in Kigali, Rwanda. Son of Etienne Ntibanyendera and Fina Nyirakagina. came to the United States, 1977.
Banyaga, Augustin was born on March 31, 1947 in Kigali, Rwanda. Son of Etienne Ntibanyendera and Fina Nyirakagina. came to the United States, 1977.
Banyaga earned his Ph.D. degree in 1976 at the University of Geneva under the supervision of André Haefliger.
He is currently a Professor of Mathematics at Pennsylvania State University. He was promoted to full professor in 1992. He has made significant contributions in symplectic topology, especially on the structure of groups of diffeomorphisms preserving a symplectic form (symplectomorphisms).
Banyaga is an editor of Afrika Matematica, the journal of the African Mathematical Union, and an editor of the African Journal of Mathematics. He has supervised the theses of 7 Ph.D. students.
He was a member of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey (1977–1978), Benjamin Peirce Assistant Professor at Harvard University(1978–1982), and assistant professor at Boston University (1982–1984), before joining the faculty at Pennsylvania State University in 1984 as associate professor.
Married Judith Mukaruziga, May 12, 1973. Children: Umutoni Ibabaza, Kankindi Rwego, Rugigana Kauamahanga.
