Dear *Colleague*, I would like to inform you that a special issue (2016) of the *Annals of Functional Analysis (AFA) is dedicated to* *Professor *Anthony To-Ming* Lau* for his significant contributions to several areas of Functional Analysis, Abstract Harmonic Analysis and Operator Theory. The journal particularly invites articles related to works of *A. T.-M. Lau*, but other papers within the scope of the journal (MSC43, MSC46 and MSC47) are warmly welcomed. The usual reviewing procedures and standards of AFA will be applied to all papers for the special issue. *Preliminary papers or summaries of results previously published are not acceptable.* **

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*Submission should be done via the online submission of AFA at:* *http://www.emis.de/journals/AFA/*

The deadline for submission is: *** 30 March 2015 ***

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Please let the editor-in-chief know whether you are potentially able to have a contribution to this issue or not (and give an approximate date for receiving your paper, if possible).

Best wishes, *M. S. Moslehian * Editor-in-chief* *

http://www.um.ac.ir/~moslehian/ http://www.um.ac.ir/%7Emoslehian/