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), Gideon Schechtman (Weizmann Institute of Scince), Rolf Schneider (University of Freiburg), Mikhail Sodin (Tel Aviv University), 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 (Arrival date: August 12/ Departure Date August 21). Kent is located in the suburbs of Cleveland, Ohio, where summers are quite beautiful.

For further information and breaking news, please, consult

http://www.math.kent.edu/math/FAPR.cfm

and e-mail to to Dmitry Ryabogin (ryabogin@math.kent.edu) or Artem Zvavitch (zvavitch@math.kent.edu).

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