1st ANNOUNCEMENT OF SUMIRFAS 2014 The Summer Informal Regional Functional Analysis Seminar July 25-27 Texas A&M University, College Station The speakers for SUMIRFAS 2014 are March Boedihardjo Gilles Pisier Michael Brannan Lova Randrianarivony Caleb Eckhardt Dan Voiculescu Matthew Kennedy Deping Ye Vern Paulsen The schedule for SUMIRFAS will be posted on the Workshop in Analysis and Probability webpage: http://www.math.tamu.edu/~kerr/workshop 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 166. The Blocker Building is on Ireland St. just south of University Dr. on the Texas A&M campus: http://www.math.tamu.edu/contact/blocker.html Coffee and refreshments will be available in Blocker 148. SUMIRFAS will be preceded by a Concentration Week on Free Probability from July 21 to 25. Topics will include operator algebras, the connections to random matrix theory, operator-valued and fully matricial techniques, stochastic processes, limit theorems, and free stochastic differential equations. The program will feature lecture series by Greg Anderson, Serban Belinschi, and Dimitri Shlyakhtenko. The webpage is located at: http://www.math.tamu.edu/~jwilliams/Free_Probability_2014 The Workshop is supported in part by grants from the National Science Foundation (NSF). Minorities, women, graduate students, and young researchers are especially encouraged to attend. For logistical support, including requests for support, please contact Cara Barton <cara at math.tamu.edu>. For more information on the Workshop itself, please contact William Johnson <johnson at math.tamu.edu>, David Kerr <kerr at math.tamu.edu>, or Gilles Pisier <pisier at math.tamu.edu>. For information about the Concentration Week on Free Probability contact Michael Anshelevich <manshel at math.tamu.edu>, Ken Dykema <ken.dykema at math.tamu.edu>, or John Williams <jwilliams at math.tamu.edu>.