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Dr. Michael Stob

Professor Emeritus

Biography

  • Dean for Academic Administration, Calvin College, 2009–present
  • Assistant, Associate, and Full Professor of Mathematics, Calvin College, 1979–present
  • Visiting Professor of Mathematics, University of Notre Dame, 1997–98, 2005–2006
  • Dean for the Contextual Disciplines and for Natural Sciences and Mathematics, Calvin College, 1998–2004
  • Visiting Associate Professor of Mathematics, University of Wisconsin, 1983–84
  • CLE Moore Instructor in Mathematics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1979–81

Education

  • BA in mathematics, Calvin College, 1974
  • MS in mathematics, University of Chicago, 1975
  • PhD in mathematics, University of Chicago, 1979

Academic Interests

computability theory (formerly called recursion theory), cognitive science (especially formal models of learning), tournaments (especially ranking problems)