1st ANNOUNCEMENT OF SUMIRFAS 2008
         The Informal Regional Functional Analysis Seminar
                         August 8 - 10
             Texas A&M University, College Station


Schedule: Talks for SUMIRFAS will be  posted  on the  Workshop in Analysis and Probability page, URL 

http://www.math.tamu.edu/research/workshops/linanalysis/

The first talk will be in the early afternoon on Friday and the Seminar concludes by lunch time on Sunday. All talks will be in Blocker 165.   The Blocker Building is on Ireland St. just south of University Dr. on the Texas A&M campus: 

http://www.tamu.edu/map/building/overview/BLOC.html. 

Coffee and refreshments will be available in Blocker 155. 

Plenary speakers at SUMIRFAS 2008 include Bill Arveson, Nate Brown, Ron DeVore, Nicole Tomczak-Jaegermann, and Elisabeth Werner.
Gideon Schechtman, and Joel Zinn, are organizing a Concentration Week on "Probability Inequalities with Applications to High Dimensional Phenomena" that will take place August 6 - August 10. The first day will be devoted to introductory talks designed to introduce non experts to the subject.

Julien Giol <giol@math.tamu.edu>, David Kerr (chair) <kerr@math.tamu.edu>, and Andrew Toms <atoms@mathstat.yorku.ca> are organizing a Concentration Week on "Operator Algebras, Dynamics, and Classification" which will take place August 4-8. For more information, go to  
http://www.math.tamu.edu/~kerr/concweek08.html.

Ron Douglas <rdouglas@math.tamu.edu> and Jaydeb Sarkar <jsarkar@math.tamu.edu> are organizing a Concentration Week on "Multivariate Operator Theory" that will take place July 28 - August 1.  For more information, please visit URL  http://www.math.tamu.edu/~jsarkar/cowmot.html.

We expect to be able to cover housing for most participants from support the 
National Science Foundation has provided for the Workshop. Preference will be 
given to participants who do not have other sources of support, such as sponsored 
research grants. When you ask Cara to book your room, please tell them if 
you are requesting support. Minorities, women, graduate students, and young 
researchers are especially encouraged to apply.

For logistical support, please contact Cara Barton, cara@math.tamu.edu. For more information on the Workshop itself, please contact William Johnson, johnson@math.tamu.edu, David Larson, larson@math.tamu.edu, Gilles Pisier, pisier@math.tamu.edu, or Joel Zinn, jzinn@math.tamu.edu. For 
information about the Concentration Week on "Probability Inequalities with Applications to High Dimensional Phenomena", please contact Joel Zinn, jzinn@math.tamu.edu.