Dear Colleagues, We would like to invite you to participate in the summer school on "Fourier analytic and probabilistic methods in geometric functional analysis and convexity" in August 13-20, 2008. The school is being organized by the NSF funded Focused Research Group collaborative project on the same subject (http://www.math.ucdavis.edu/~geofunction/). It is oriented towards graduate students, postdocs and researchers who wish to get an introduction to the subject. The school will feature several series's of lectures. Confirmed speakers include Alexander Barvinok (University of Michigan), Piotr Indyk (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), Fedor Nazarov (University of Wisconsin-Madison), Krzysztof Oleszkiewicz (University of Warsaw), Rolf Schneider (University of Freiburg), Santosh S. Vempala (Georgia Institute of Technology). The school will be hosted by the Department of Mathematical Sciences at Kent State University in August 13-20, 2008. Kent is located in the suburbs of Cleveland, Ohio, where summers are quite beautiful. We plan to spend one of the evenings at the nearby Blossom Music Center, the summer home of the renowned Cleveland Orchestra. With NSF funding we will be able to cover local, and, probably, travel expenses for a limited number of participants, so we ask you to reply as soon as possible to Dmitry Ryabogin (ryabogin@math.kent.edu) or Artem Zvavitch (zvavitch@math.kent.edu). Graduate students and Postdoctoral fellows are especially encouraged to apply. For further information and breaking news, please, consult http://www.math.kent.edu/math/FAPR.cfm Again, please note that your early response will help us gauge the needs for housing, lecture room(s), etc. We hope to be sending out information regarding housing by the end of December. We hope to see you in Kent next August. Best Regards, The organizing committee Alex Koldobsky Mark Rudelson Dmitry Ryabogin Stanislaw Szarek Roman Vershynin Elisabeth Werner Artem Zvavitch