Every year, the Linguistics Department organizes MAYFEST, a workshop where speakers are invited to report on a variety of issues related to one theme. This year our theme celebrates the department's recently enhanced Cognitive Neuroscience of Language laboratory. We will examine recent progress at attempts to bridge the study of language with studies of neuroscience and genetics. A list of invited speakers with titles and abstracts is posted on the program schedule. The workshop will be held May 18–20, 2001, in Marie Mount Hall, on the College Park campus of the University of Maryland. We welcome visitors to the workshop. We will be charging a nominal registration fee which is discounted if you register on or before May 1st. Please call and reserve hotel rooms well in advance—the workshop occurs the weekend before commencement, and the UMUC Inn and Conference Center, adjacent to campus, is the best placed lodging for walking to campus.