Vladas Sidoravicius (1963, Vilnius, Lithuania – 23 May 2019, Shanghai) was a Lithuanian-Brazilian mathematician, specializing in probability theory.^[1][2][3]

Education and career

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]

Selected publications

Articles

• Kesten, H.; Sidoravicius, V.; Zhang, Yu (1998). "Almost all words are seen in critical site percolation on the triangular lattice" (PDF). Electronic Journal of Probability. 3 (10): 1–75. doi:10.1214/EJP.v3-32.
• Kesten, H.; Sidoravicius, V. (2003). "Branching random walk with catalysts" (PDF). Electronic Journal of Probability. 8 (5): 1–51. doi:10.1214/EJP.v8-127.
• Sidoravicius, Vladas; Sznitman, Alain-Sol (2004). "Quenched invariance principles for walks on clusters of percolation or among random conductances". Probability Theory and Related Fields. 129 (2): 219–244. doi:10.1007/s00440-004-0336-0. S2CID 120061442.
• Kesten, Harry; Sidoravicius, Vladas (2005). "The spread of a rumor or infection in a moving population". The Annals of Probability. 33 (6): 2402–2462. arXiv:math/0312496. doi:10.1214/009117905000000413.
• Alexander, Kenneth S.; Sidoravicius, Vladas (2006). "Pinning of polymers and interfaces by random potentials". The Annals of Applied Probability. 16 (2): 636–669. arXiv:math/0501028. doi:10.1214/105051606000000015.
• Kesten, Harry; Sidoravicius, Vladas (2006). "A phase transition in a model for the spread of an infection". Illinois Journal of Mathematics. 50 (1–4): 547–634. doi:10.1215/ijm/1258059486. 2009
• Sidoravicius, V.; Sznitman, A. S. (2010). "Connectivity bounds for the vacant set of random interlacements". Annales de l'Institut Henri Poincaré B. 46 (4): 976–990. arXiv:0908.2206. Bibcode:2010AIHPB..46..976S. doi:10.1214/09-AIHP335. S2CID 6853534.
• Ellwood, David; Newman, Charles; Sidoravicius, Vladas; Werner, Wendelin (2012). "Probability and Statistical Physics in Two and More Dimensions". Clay Mathematical Proceedings. 15. CiteSeerX 10.1.1.680.4319; XIV Brazilian School of Probability, July 11–August 7, 2010((cite journal)): CS1 maint: postscript (link)

Books

• Sidoravicius, V., ed. (31 August 2009). New Trends in Mathematical Physics: Selected contributions of the XVth International Congress on Mathematical Physics. Springer Science & Business Media. ISBN 978-90-481-2810-5.
• Sidoravicius, V., ed. (2002). In and Out of Equilibrium: Probability with a Physics Flavor. Progress in Probability. Vol. 51. Birkhäuser Basel. pp. vii+472. doi:10.1007/978-1-4612-0063-5. ISBN 978-1-4612-6595-5.
• Sidoravicius, V., ed. (2019). Sojourns in Probability Theory and Statistical Physics: A Festschrift for Charles M. Newman. Proceedings in Mathematics & Statistics. Vol. (3 vols.). Springer.
  • Vol. I. Spin Glasses and Statistical Mechanics.
  • Vol. II. Brownian Web and Percolation.
  • Vol. III. Interacting Particle Systems and Random Walks.