CMS Election 2019
Members of the Board of Directors
Associate Editor 2021-01-01 to 2025-12-31

Ailana Fraser
Department of Mathematics — University of British Columbia

Areas of professional interest:
Differential Geometry, Geometric Analysis

Examples of recent publications:
Regularity of harmonic maps from polyhedra to CAT(1) spaces (with Christine Breiner, L.-H. Huang, Chikako Mese, Pam Sargent, Yingying Zhang), Calculus of Variations and Partial Differential Equations 57 (2018), no. 12, 1-35.

Sharp eigenvalue bounds and minimal surfaces in the ball (with R. Schoen), Inventiones Mathematicae 203(3) (2016), 823-890.

Compactness of the space of embedded minimal surfaces with free boundary in three-manifolds with non-negative Ricci curvature and convex boundary (with M. Li), Journal of Differential Geometry 96 (2014), no.2, 183-200.

Distinguished lectureships, Fellowships, Awards:
Fellow of the Canadian Mathematical Society, 2018-
CMS Krieger-Nelson Prize, 2012
Fellow of the American Mathematical Society, 2012-
NSERC Discovery Accelerator Supplement, 2010-2013
AMS Invited Address, 2006

Positions held with other organizations within the past ten years:
Scientific co-Director of CMS2020
Editor, Transactions and Memoirs of the American Mathematical Society, 2019-2023
Scientific Organizing Committee, 2018 CMS Winter Meeting
UBC Faculty Research Awards Committee, 2013-2016
National Science Foundation Panel, Division of Mathematical Sciences, 2011, 2012, 2015, 2017, 2019
UBC Faculty of Science Working Climate Equity Survey Committee, 2012-2014
NSERC Scholarships and Fellowships Selection Committee for Mathematical Sciences, 2008-2011

Comments on proposed appointment:

Past Service to the CMS (since 1995):
Board of Directors, Director - Pacific FROM 6/2019 TO 6/2023
CMS Blair Spearman Doctoral Prize Selection Committee, FROM 1/2014 TO 12/2015
Committee on Women in Mathematics, Region - Pacific FROM 1/2018 TO 12/2020
Fellows Selection Committee, FROM 1/2020 TO 12/2021
Research Committee, Chair FROM 7/2015 TO 12/2016
Scientific Editorial Board - CJM and CMB, Associate Editor FROM 1/2016 TO 12/2025