Andrew Stocker

Andrew Stocker earned a B.Sc. in mathematics at the University of San Francisco in 2015 and a Ph.D. in mathematics from the University of Colorado Boulder in 2022. As an undergraduate, he also attended both Rochester Institute of Technology and the Harvard Extension School. Since finishing his Ph.D., he has taught at Western Michigan University and Kalamazoo College. Stocker's research is in the mathematical study of chaotic dynamical systems, and how they can be understood using methods from the study of operator algebras and the field of symbolic dynamics. He is also interested in computer science and programming, and recently worked at an AI company creating mathematics datasets to train LLMs. Stocker co-founded an AI startup in 2024.

Research Interests

Dynamical systems, operator algebras, C*-algebras, symbolic dynamics, synchronizing systems, groupoids

Distinctions

• Burton W. Jones Teaching Excellence Award, University of Colorado Boulder (2021–2022)
• Batey Prize, University of San Francisco (2015)
• Graduate School Summer Fellowship, University of Colorado Boulder (2020)
• First Place team, AccelerateSF 2015 Hackathon

Selected Publications

• R. J. Deeley and A. M. Stocker, “Synchronizing Dynamical Systems: Finitely presented systems and Ruelle algebras” , arxiv:2501.13909
• R. J. Deeley and A. M. Stocker, “Synchronizing Dynamical Systems: Shift Spaces and K-theory” , arXiv:2208.06200 (accepted in Groups, Geometry, Dynamic )
• R. J. Deeley and A. M. Stocker, “Synchronizing Dynamical Systems: Their Groupoids and C∗-algebras”  arXiv:2206.04755 (accepted in Transactions of the AMS)
• R. Chaiser, M. Coates-Welsh, R. J. Deeley, A. Farhner, J. Giornozi, R. Huq, L. Lorenzo, J. Oyola-Cortes, M. Reardon, and A. M. Stocker, “Invariants for the Smale space associated to an expanding endomorphism of a flat manifold”  arXiv:2208.02231, MÅNunster Journal of Mathematics 16  (2023), 177-199.
• X. Huang, et al., “The Extinction Properties of and Distance to the Highly Reddened Type Ia Supernova SN 2012cu”, The Astrophysics Journal

Appointed to the Faculty

2026

Educational Background

Ph.D., University of Colorado Boulder
B.Sc., University of San Francisco

Dissertation

Synchronizing Dynamical Systems, Groupoids, and C*-Algebras