The Department of Mathematics and Statistics at Lancaster University, UK, will host two meetings with a common theme of Banach spaces on 25-26 May 2009.

The first, starting after lunch on Monday 25th May, is a meeting of the North British Functional Analysis Seminar (NBFAS); the NBFAS speaker is Stephen J. Dilworth (South Carolina, USA).

The second meeting, on Tuesday 26th May, is in honour of GrahamJameson on the occasion of his retirement, celebrating his many significant contributions to the department and the wider mathematical community during his 35-year career in Lancaster. There will be six invited one-hour talks given by the following speakers:

- Timothy Feeman (Villanova, USA), - Richard Haydon (Oxford, UK), - Rafal Latala (Warsaw, Poland), - Edward W. Odell, (Texas, USA), - Charles J. Read (Leeds, UK), and - Thomas Schlumprecht (Texas A&M, USA).

This meeting is supported by a London Mathematical Society Scheme 1 conference grant. There is support available for UK graduate students; the deadline for applications for such support is 1st May.

Full details of both meetings (including registration, schedule, travel and accommodation) can be found at http://www.maths.lancs.ac.uk/jameson

For more information, please contact the organizer Niels J. Laustsen (email: n.laustsen@lancaster.ac.uk).