Dear Colleagues,

As you might have read in the recent notices of the AMS, we are organizing a Special Session "Separate versus Joint Continuity - a tribute to Prof. I. Namioka" during the AMS Central Fall Sectional Meeting at the University of Akron, OH, October 20-21, 2012.

In celebration of the coming 50th anniversary of the appearance of his monumental "Linear topological spaces", on Friday afternoon, October 19 (a day before the Akron Meeting) we want to honor Prof. Namioka by slating a mathematical gathering at Kent State University (a different location!) and we hope you can make it. We have contacted Prof. I. Namioka and he has kindly agreed to give a talk at Friday's meeting.

We warmly invite you to attend these special events, both at KSU and Akron. We have a very limited number of slots available for a 20 minute presentation, so if you are interested in giving a talk/announcment please contact us ASAP. Regardless, whether you give a talk or not, we hope you can attend.

On behalf of the Special Session Organizing Committee

Dr. Zbigniew Piotrowski