Dear Colleagues, We are very pleased to announce that professor George Janelidze will be the recipient of the Chaire de la Vallee Poussin 2017 (see https://www.uclouvain.be/453620.html for more information about this chair). Professor Janelidze has kindly accepted to give a series of invited lectures at the Universite catholique de Louvain during the week starting on May 29, 2017. We plan to organize an international workshop at the end of that week (June 1-3). More details concerning the subject of the talks and the scientific programme of that week will be communicated later on. With best regards, Marino Gran, Tim Van der Linden, and Enrico Vitale [For admin and other information see: http://www.mta.ca/~cat-dist/ ]