Valentin Sisko
Education
2003 Ph.D. from Instituto de Matematica e Estatistica, Universidade de Sao Paulo, Brazil,
"Percolation, contact process, and random environment", advisers: Pablo Ferrari, Mikhail Menshikov
1998 Diploma with Honor of the department of Mathematics and Mechanics, Moscow State University
Fields of research in Probability Theory
Markov chains, percolation, random walks in random environment, and zero-range processes.
Publications
Pablo A. Ferrari, Valentin V. Sisko () Escape of mass in zero-range processes
with random rates. Submitted.
math.PR/0609469
A.D. Andjel, M.V. Menshikov, V.V. Sisko (2006) Positive
recurrence of processes associated to crystal growth models. Ann. Appl.
Probab. 16, no. 3, 1059-1085. math.PR/0610172 or here
M.V. Menshikov, S.Yu. Popov, V. Sisko, M. Vachkovskaia (2004) On a
many-dimentional random walk in a rarefied random environment.
Markov Processes Relat. Fields 10, 137-160.
M.V. Menshikov, S.Yu. Popov, V.V. Sisko (2002) On the connection
between oriented percolation and contact process. J. Teor. Probab.
15, no. 1, 207-221.
Conferences
Brazilian School of Probability 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 9, 10
in years 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2005, 2006.
Curiculum Vitae
Since 2003 Posdoctoral researcher at Instituto de Matematica e Estatistica, Universidade de Sao Paulo, Brazil
1999-2003 Posgraduate(doctorate) student at Instituto de Matematica e Estatistica, Universidade de Sao Paulo, Brazil
1993-1998 Student at the Department of Mathematics and Mechanics, Moscow State University, Russia
1978-1993 lived in Tallinn, Estonia
1977 born in Russia
Fellowships
2006-now Fellowship from CNPq (posdoutorado)
2003-2006 Fellowship from FAPESP (posdoutorado)
1999-2003 Fellowship from FAPESP (doutorado)
