This is an announcement for the paper "A hereditarily indecomposable asymptotic $\ell_2$ Banach space" by G. Androulakis and K. Beanland. Abstract: A Hereditarily Indecomposable asymptotic $\ell_2$ Banach space is constructed. The existence of such a space answers a question of B. Maurey and verifies a conjecture of W.T. Gowers. Archive classification: Functional Analysis Mathematics Subject Classification: 46B20; 46B03 Remarks: 29 pages The source file(s), HIHilbert.tex: 98830 bytes, is(are) stored in gzipped form as 0601778.gz with size 25kb. The corresponding postcript file has gzipped size 139kb. Submitted from: kjbeanland@smcm.edu The paper may be downloaded from the archive by web browser from URL http://front.math.ucdavis.edu/math.FA/0601778 or http://arXiv.org/abs/math.FA/0601778 or by email in unzipped form by transmitting an empty message with subject line uget 0601778 or in gzipped form by using subject line get 0601778 to: math@arXiv.org.