The Summer 2009 Workshop in Analysis and Probability at Texas A&M University will be in session from July 7 until August 13.

The Informal Regional Functional Analysis Seminar (SUMIRFAS) will be held August 7-9.
All talks will be held in Blocker 165.

Rafal Latala, Assaf Naor, and Grigoris Paouris (Chair), are organizing a Concentration Week on
"Probability in Asymptotic Geometry" for the week of July 20-24.
For more information on this concentration week please visit,
http://www.math.tamu.edu/~grigoris/ConcentrationWeekHome.html.

This Concentration Week will focus on high dimensional phenomena concerning convex bodies, random polytopes, and random matrices. These topics lie in the intersection of probability, analysis, geometry, and combinatorics. The goal is to expose the huge variety of techniques used in the study of these objects and to explore the connections between them.

Marius Junge, Jesse Peterson and Gilles Pisier (Chair), are organizing a Concentration Week on
"Approximation Properties of Discrete Groups and Operator Spaces" for the week of August 3-7.
For more information on this concentration week please visit,
http://people.math.jussieu.fr/~pisier/CW.html.

Particular emphasis will be taken to tie together recent results from the theory of von Neumann algebras with operator space ideas. The intention is to provide a background for common points of interest from different perspectives through courses on operator spaces and Dirichlet forms in von Neumann algebras. The intention of this concentration week is to attract attention of younger researchers and students to these new openings.