This is an announcement for the paper "Entropy numbers of convex hulls in Banach spaces and applications" by Bernd Carl, Aicke Hinrichs, and Philipp Rudolph. Abstract: Entropy numbers and Kolmogorov numbers of convex hulls in Banach spaces are studied. Applications are given. Archive classification: math.FA Mathematics Subject Classification: 41A46, 46B20, 47B06, 46B50 Submitted from: a.hinrichs@uni-jena.de The paper may be downloaded from the archive by web browser from URL http://front.math.ucdavis.edu/1211.1559 or http://arXiv.org/abs/1211.1559