JOHN R SCHMITT

Department of Mathematics
Middlebury College
Warner Hall
Middlebury, VT 05753, USA

Phone:1- 802-443-5952

Fax:1-802-443-6020

E-mail: jschmitt@middlebury.edu

Office: Warner Hall 311
Office Hours: (Summer) by arrangement.

ABOUT

John Schmitt is an Associate Professor of Mathematics and has been at Middlebury College since 2005.   He received his B.A. from Providence College, his M.S. from the University of Vermont, and a Ph.D. from Emory University.

His research interests are in combinatorics (the art of counting) and graph theory (the study of networks), with a particular fondness for implementing the polynomial method.  He has co-authored numerous research articles.  His Erdös number is two.  His research has been supported by the following external sources: National Science Foundation, National Security Agency and VT-EPSCoR.  He has held visiting positions at the Institute for Pure and Applied Mathematics at UCLA and at Carnegie Mellon University.

Professor Schmitt enjoys teaching students how to count and play (combinatorial) games – things they thought they already knew.  Students are frequently involved with his research.  His efforts in teaching were recognized by students in 2016 with the Perkins Award.

Away from academic life, he enjoys skiing with his family in the great outdoors of Vermont.  Also, John has a passion for growing his own organic produce.