Vladas Sidoravicius
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At Vilnius University, Sidoravicius graduated in mathematics with Diplom in 1985 and Magister degree in 1986.[2] At Lomonosov State University he matriculated in 1986 and received his doctoral degree in 1990 with thesis advisor Vadim Aleksandrovich Malyshev.[4] At Heidelberg University and at Paris Dauphine University, Sidoravicius was a postdoc from 1991 to 1993.[2] In the early 1990s he gained an international reputation for his research in probability theory.[3] In 1993 he moved to Brazil.[1] He became a naturalized Brazilian citizen and was a full professor at the Instituto de Matemática Pura e Aplicada (IMPA) in Rio de Janeiro from 1999 to 2015, when he moved to China.[2] At New York University Shanghai (NYU Shanghai), he was a professor of mathematics and also served as the deputy director of NYU Shanghai's NYU-ECNU (East China Normal University) Institute of Mathematical Sciences from 2015 until his death in 2019 at age 55.[3]
Sidoravicius was the author or co-author of over 100 articles in refereed journals. He was a frequent collaborator of Harry Kesten. Their 2008 article A Shape Theory for the Spread of an Infection is particularly noteworthy.[3][5]
In 2014 Sidoravicius was an invited speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians in Seoul.[6] In 2019 the XXIII Escola Brasileira de Probabilidade (XXIII Brazilian School of Probability) was dedicated to his memory.[7]
