An endowed lecture series established by the late Professor Emeritus Harry S. Kieval to bring important and renowned speakers to the Humboldt State University campus to deliver a lecture on some popular and/or broad aspect of mathematics which would be attractive to undergraduates and to the public. The lectures are held once each fall and spring.
Spring 2012 Kieval Lecture
William G. McCallum, Ph.D.
Professor of Mathematics,
University of Arizona
Tuesday, March 20, 2012
7:30 P.M.
Founder's Hall Room 118
"Coming together to help children learn mathematics:
The Common Core State Standards"
Over 85% of the population of the United States lives in states that have adopted the Common Core State Standards in Mathematics. By coming together in this way we have an opportunity to improve mathematics education dramatically if we follow through with good curriculum and teaching that takes advantage of the focus and coherence of the standards, and makes use of the power of sharing. I will describe the prospects and perils ahead, and talk about what parents, educators, and mathematicians can do to help achieve the promise of the standards.
Biographical Sketch: [ http://math.arizona.edu/~wmc/Biographical/BriefBio.html]
William G. McCallum is a University Distinguished Professor of Mathematics and Head of the Department of Mathematics at the University of Arizona. Born in Sydney, Australia in 1956, he received his Ph.D. in Mathematics from Harvard University in 1984, under the supervision of Barry Mazur. After spending two years at the University of California, Berkeley, and one at the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute in Berkeley, he joined the faculty at the University of Arizona in 1987. In 1989 he joined the Harvard calculus consortium, and is the lead author of the consortium's multivariable calculus and college algebra texts. In 1993-94 he spent a year at the Institut des Hautes Etudes Scientifiques, and in 1995-96 he spent a year at the Institute for Advanced Study on a Centennial Fellowship from the American Mathematical Society. In 2005 he received the Director's Award for Distinguished Teaching Scholars from the National Science Foundation. In 2006 he founded the Institute for Mathematics and Education at the University of Arizona. He was Director of the Institute until 2009 and now chairs its advisory board. In 2009–2010 he was one of the lead writers for the Common Core State Standards in Mathematics. His professional interests include arithmetical algebraic geometry and mathematics education. He has received grants and written articles, essays, and books in both areas.
Prof. McCallum will also be delivering the weekly Math Colloquium at 4 p.m. in the Wildlife and Fisheries Building 258. For more information on this, please go to:
http://www.humboldt.edu/math/colloquium/index.html
This is a link to the HSU library video records of the Kieval Lectures.
(In the box marked "Search for:" , type "Kieval")
Previous lecturers in this series have included:
- Kenneth Ribet (details) Fall 2011 (University of California at Berkeley)
- David Pengelley (details) Spring 2011 (New Mexico State University)
- Alice Silverberg (details) Fall 2010 (University of California at Irvine)
- Robert J. Lang (details) Spring 2010
- Ken Golden, (details)Fall 2009 (University of Utah)
- Tony DeRose, (details)Spring 2009 (Pixar Studios)
- Underwood Dudley, (details) Fall 2008 (DePauw University)
- Don Albers, (details) Spring 2008 (Mathematical Association of America Books)
- C. Edward Sandifer, (details) Fall 2007 (Western Connecticut State University)
- Melanie Wood, (details), Spring 2007 (Princeton University)
- Jerald Marsden, ( ), Fall 2006 (California Institute of Technology)
- Deborah Ball, (details) , Spring 2006 (University of Michigan)
- Majorie Senechal, (details), Fall 2005 (Smith College)
- Joe Gallian, (details), Spring 2005 (University of Minnesota Duluth)
- Jennifer Quinn, (details), Fall 2004 (Occidental College)
- John Conway, (details), Spring 2004 (Princeton University)
- Persi Diaconis (details), Fall 2003, (Stanford University)
- Hyman Bass (details) ,Spring 2003 (U. of Michigan)
- Ann E.Watkins (details),Fall, 2002(CSU Northridge)
- Ed Burger (details), Spring, 2002 (Williams College)
- Michael E. Moody (details ) Fall, 2001 (Harvey Mudd College)
- Richard Tapia (details) Spring, 2001 ( Rice University)
- Noam D. Elkies (details) Fall, 2000 (Harvard University)
- Victor Katz (details) Spring, 2000 (University of the District of Columbia)
- Arthur Benjamin (details) Fall, 1999 (Harvey Mudd College)
- Thomas Banchoff (details)Spring, 1999 (Brown University)
- Frank Giordano (details) Fall, 1998 (COMAP)
- Robert L. Devaney (Details) Spring, 1998 (Boston University)
- Sherman Stein Fall, 1997 (UC Davis)
- Ron Graham (Details ) Spring, 1997
- David Hoffman Fall, 1996 (MSRI, Berkeley)
- Doris Schattschneider Spring, 1996 (Moravian College)
- Herbert Keller Fall, 1995 (Cal. Inst. of Technology)
- Keith J. Devlin Spring, 1995 (Saint Mary's College)
- Deb Hughes Hallett (Harvard) and Jerry Uhl (U of Ill.) Fall, 1994
- Gil Strang Spring, 1994 (MIT)
- Carlos Castillo-Chavez Fall, 1993 (Cornell)
- Judith Grabiner Spring, 1993 (Pitzer College).
- Judith Tanur Fall, 1992 (SUNY, Stony Brook)
- Margaret Cozzins Spring, 1992 (Northeastern U.)
- Saunders MacLane Fall, 1991 (Univ. of Chicago)
- Branko Grunbaum Spring, 1991 (Univ. of Washington)
- Robert Moses Fall, 1990
- George Dantzig Spring, 1990 (Stanford Univ.)
- Reuben Hersh Fall, 1989 (Univ. of NM)
- Ralph Boas Spring, 1989 (Northwestern Univ.)
- Leon Henkin Fall, 1988 (U.C., Berk.)
- Mary Ellen Rudin Spring, 1988(Univ. of Wisconsin)
- Constance Reid Fall, 1987
- Kenneth Arrow Spring, 1987 (Stanford Univ.)
- Peter Hilton Fall, 1986 (SUNY, Binghamton)
- Gerard Debreu Spring, 1986 (U.C.,Berk.)
- Raymond Smullyan Fall, 1985 (Ind. U.)
- Paul Halmos Spring, 1985 (Univ.of Santa Clara)
- Richard Hamming Winter, 1985 (Naval Postgrad.)
- Victor Klee Spring, 1984 (Univ. of Washington)
- Ivan Niven Fall, 1983 (Univ. of Oregon)
- Ronald Graham Spring, 1983 (Bell Labs)