Leonas SAULIS was born in the Ignalina district, Naujasis Daugeliskis village, on
March 12, 1941. In 1957 he finished the Naujasis Daugeliskis secondary school. In
1963 he graduated with honours from the Vilnius University, faculty of mathematics.
In 1970 he defended a thesis to acquire a candidate's (PhD) degree of physics and
mathematics at the VU Scientific Council. In 1986 he defended the thesis
"Approximation by the normal law taking account of large deviations" for a doctor's
habilius degree. In 1992 a professor's title was conferred on him.
The main trends of his interest are:
- development of the cumulate (semiinvariant) method,
- approximating by the normal law in the areas of large deviations,
- "bootsrap" approximation and its efficiency.
Major results are:
Using the cumulate method he has proved general lemmas in the space Rk by the
normal law of approximation. He has obtained asymptotic expansions in the areas of
large deviations for the distribution and its density of sums of independent random
variables.
Publications:
- R.Rudzkis, L.Saulis, V.Statulevicius. A general lemma of large deviations. Liet. Matem. Rink., 1978, t.18, p.99-116.
- L.Saulis. Asymptotic expansions in large deviation zones for the distribution density of sums of independent random variables. New Trends in probability and statistics. V.1. Proceedings of the Bakuriani Colloquium in honour of Yu.V.Prokhorov, 1990, p.43-56.
- L.Saulis. On large deviations for the random vectors. Teor.veroyatn. i primen.
1991, v.36, p.482-493.
- L.Saulis, V.Statulevicius. Limit theorems for large deviations. Dordrecht, Boston,
London: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1991, 232 p.
- L.Saulis. Asymptotic Expansions of Large Deviations for Sums of Nonidentically Distributed Random Variables. Acta Applicandae Mathematicae. Vol.58, No.1-3. Kluner Academic Publishers/Dordrecht, Boston, London. 1999. p. 327-341.
Contact information:
Phone: +(370 5) 21 09 311
Fax: +(370 5) 27 29 207
E-mail: lsaulis@fm.vtu.lt
Communications in Lithuanian, German, English, Russian is possible.
Last updated on October 15, 2002
