Philippe Rukimbira
Born: 1960
place: Rwanda
Licence Es Science Mathematiques-Phyisique (1983) National University Of Rwanda (UNR)
Ph.D. Mathematics (1991) Pennsylvania State University
thesis: Some Properties of Almost Contact Flows ;advisor Augustin Banyagaarea of degree: Differential Geometry
Associate Professor of Mathematics Florida International University
URL: http://www.fiu.edu/~rukim
email: rukim@fiu.eduPhilippe Rukimbira was born in Rwanda in 1960. He attended the National University Of Rwanda (UNR) which awarded him a Licence Es Science Mathematiques-Phyisique in 1983. He taught at UNR for three years before coming to US in 1986 to study under hi countryman, the great mathematician Augustin Banyaga at Pennsylvania State University - College Park. In 1991 he obtained the Ph.D. from Penn State.
RESEARCH
Selected Publications
12. Philippe Rukimbira, Contact metric geometry characterization of the odd-dimensional spheres, Contemporary problems in mathematical physics (Cotonou 1999), 138--141, World Sci. Publishing, River Edge, NJ, 2000.
11. Philippe Rukimbira, Spherical Rigidity Via Contact Dynamics, Bull. Belg. Math. Soc. 7 (2000)
10. Philippe Rukimbira, Topology and characteristic closures of K-contact manifolds, Different. Geom. and Applic., Proc. of the 7th Intern. Conf., Brno 1998, Masaryk University in Brno 1999, 399-412.
9. Philippe Rukimbira, On K-contact manifolds with minimal number of closed characteristics, Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 127 (1999), 3345-3351.
8. Philippe Rukimbira, A characterization of flat contact metric Geometry, Hous. Jour. Math. 24, no 3, (1998), 409-414.
7. Augustin Banyaga and Philippe Rukimbira, On Characteristics of Circle Invariant Presymplectic Forms, Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 123, number 12, (1995), 3901-3906.
6. Philippe Rukimbira, Chern-Hamilton Conjecture and K-contactness, Hous. Jour. of Math. 21, No 4, (1995), 709-718.
5. Philippe Rukimbira, Topology and Closed Characteristics of K-contact Manifolds, Bull. Belg. Math. Soc. 2 (1995), 349-356.
4. Philippe Rukimbira, Vertical Sectional Curvature and K-contactness, Journal of Geometry, 53 (1995), 163-166.
3. Philippe Rukimbira, The Dimension of Leaf Closures of K-contact Flows, Ann. Glob. Anal. Geom. 12 (1994), 103-108.
2. Augustin Banyaga and Philippe Rukimbira, Weak Stability of Almost Regular Contact Foliations, Journal of Geometry, 50 (1994), 16-27.
1. Philippe Rukimbira, Some Remarks on R-contact Flows. Ann. Glob. Anal. Geom. 11 (1993) 165-171
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