This is an announcement for the paper "An inversion formula for Orlicz norms and sequences of random variables" by Soeren Christensen, Joscha Prochno, and Stiene Riemer. Abstract: Given an Orlicz function $M$, we show which random variables $\xi_i$, $i=1,...,n$ generate the associated Orlicz norm, i.e., which random variables yield $\mathbb{E} \max\limits_{1\leq i \leq n}|x_i\xi_i| \sim \norm{(x_i)_{i=1}^n}_M$. As a corollary we obtain a representation for the distribution function in terms of $M$ and $M'$ which can be easily applied to many examples of interest. Archive classification: math.FA math.PR Mathematics Subject Classification: 46B09, 60E15 Remarks: 11 pages Submitted from: prochno@math.uni-kiel.de The paper may be downloaded from the archive by web browser from URL http://front.math.ucdavis.edu/1204.1242 or http://arXiv.org/abs/1204.1242