William G. McCallum is a University Distinguished Professor of Mathematics and was Head of the Department of Mathematics at the University of Arizona from 2009-2013.
Education
He received his Doctor of Philosophy 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.
Career
In 1989 he joined the Harvard calculus consortium, and is the lead author of the consortium"s multivariable calculus and college algebra texts. In 1993-1994 he spent a year at the Institut des Hautes Etudes Scientifiques, and in 1995-1996 he spent a year at the Institute for Advanced Study on a Centennial Fellowship from the American Mathematical Society. In 2006 he founded the Institute for Mathematics & Education at the University of Arizona.
He was Director of the Institute until 2009 and again starting in 2013.
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.
2012: Fellow of the American Mathematical Society. Institute for Mathematics and Education Common Core State Standards in Mathematics Illustrative Mathematics Project Standards Progressions for the Common Core Tools for the Common Core Blog The Klein Project Mathematical Models at the University of Arizona.