CMS Election 2017
	Executive Committee Officers
	Vice-President - Ontario		2017-07-26 to 2019-06-30
	Juris Steprans
	Department of Mathematics and Statistics — York University

Areas of professional interest:
set theory and its applications to analysis and algebra

Examples of recent publications:
"When automorphisms of P(kappa)/fin are trivial off a small set",
Saharon Shelah and Juris Steprans, Fund. Math. 235 167-181 (2016)

"Proof of the Ghahramani-Lau conjecture", V. Losert and M. Neufang and J. Pachl and J. Steprans, Adv. Math. 290 709--738 (2016)

"Applications of harmonic analysis to the theory of cardinal invariants",
Juris Steprans, CMS Notes 46 12--13 (2014)

Distinguished lectureships, Fellowships, Awards:
Fellow of the Fields Institute

Positions held with other organizations within the past ten years:
NSERC Group Chair 2012-2015
Deputy Director Fields Institute 2006-2010

Comments on proposed appointment:
While the mathematical landscape has changed considerably over the past half century (I am thinking of the prominent role assumed by mathematics institutes and the impact of electronic communication in particular) many of the current activities of the CMS would still be familiar to a CMS member of the 1950s. I would like to help the executive examine whether or not the CMS should consider making changes in how conferences are organized and how CMS members communicate with each other.

Past Service to the CMS (since 1995):
Board of Directors, FROM 7/2003 TO 6/2007
Board of Directors, Director VP - Ontario FROM 7/2017 TO 6/2019
Executive Committee, Vice-President - Ontario FROM 7/2017 TO 6/2019
Publications Committee, Chair FROM 1/2005 TO 12/2007
Publications Committee, Ex-officio (President's Delegate) FROM 7/2017 TO 6/2019