Vladas Sidoravicius

Vladas Sidoravicius was a Lithuanian-Brazilian mathematician, specializing in probability theory.

Education and career

At Vilnius University, Sidoravicius graduated in mathematics with Diplom in 1985 and Magister degree in 1986. At Lomonosov State University he matriculated in 1986 and received his doctoral degree in 1990 with thesis advisor Vadim Aleksandrovich Malyshev. At Heidelberg University and at Paris Dauphine University, Sidoravicius was a postdoc from 1991 to 1993. In the early 1990s he gained an international reputation for his research in probability theory. In 1993 he moved to Brazil. He became a naturalized Brazilian citizen and was a full professor at the Instituto de Matemática Pura e Aplicada in Rio de Janeiro from 1999 to 2015, when he moved to China. At New York University Shanghai, he was a professor of mathematics and also served as the deputy director of NYU Shanghai's NYU-ECNU Institute of Mathematical Sciences from 2015 until his death in 2019 at age 55.
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.
In 2014 Sidoravicius was an invited speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians in Seoul. In 2019 the XXIII Escola Brasileira de Probabilidade was dedicated to his memory.