This is an announcement for the paper "The M-ellipsoid, symplectic capacities and volume" by Shiri Artstein, Vitali D. Milman and Yaron Ostrover. Abstract: In this work we bring together tools and ideology from two different fields, Symplectic Geometry and Asymptotic Geometric Analysis, to arrive at some new results. Our main result is a dimension-independent bound for the symplectic capacity of a convex body by its volume radius. Archive classification: Symplectic Geometry; Functional Analysis Mathematics Subject Classification: 53D05; 53C15; 46B07; 52A20; 46B20 The source file(s), CapMil2006Apr19.tex: 34307 bytes, is(are) stored in gzipped form as 0604434.gz with size 12kb. The corresponding postcript file has gzipped size 61kb. Submitted from: artstein@math.princeton.edu The paper may be downloaded from the archive by web browser from URL http://front.math.ucdavis.edu/math.SG/0604434 or http://arXiv.org/abs/math.SG/0604434 or by email in unzipped form by transmitting an empty message with subject line uget 0604434 or in gzipped form by using subject line get 0604434 to: math@arXiv.org.