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Rwandan-born American mathematician (born 1947)

Augustin Banyaga (born March 31, 1947) is a Rwandan-born Americanmathematician whose research fields include symplectic topology and contact geometry.

He is currently a Professor of Mathematics at Pennsylvania State University.

Biography

While at the University of Geneva, he earned a B.S. degree in 1971 and an M.S. in 1972.^[1] He earned his Ph.D.

degree in 1976 at the University of Geneva under the supervision of André Haefliger.^[2] (Banyaga was the first person from Rwanda to obtain a Ph.D.

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in mathematics.^[3]) He was a member of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey (1977–1978),^[4]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.

He was promoted to full professor in 1992.