The conference Texas-Oklahoma Representations and Automorphic forms IV will take place on March 23-24, 2013, at the University of North Texas. Additional information can be found on the confernce website: www.math.unt.edu/~richter/TORA/TORA4.html
Over the last century, the theories of automorphic forms and representations have grown enormously. Important applications impact various fields of research, ranging from number theory, coding theory, algebraic geometry, and topology to Kac-Moody algebras and quantum field theory. The interplay of automorphic forms and representation theory has been especially fruitful, and many surprising and deep results have emerged. The TORA conference series will emphasize the interplay between automorphic forms and representations, both in the classical and adelic languages, and related topics like analytic number theory and harmonic analysis.
The TORA mathematics conference series consists of semi-annual meetings hosted by the University of North Texas, Oklahoma State University, and the University of Oklahoma on a rotating basis. This award provides support for three weekend conferences, one at the University of North Texas in Spring 2013 (TORA IV), one at Oklahoma State University in Fall 2013 (TORA V), and another at the University of Oklahoma in Spring 2014 (TORA VI). Each conference will feature two or three prominent guest speakers from outside the Texas-Oklahoma region, in addition to other participants including students, post-doctoral researchers, and junior faculty. Regional graduate students and researchers will also give talks describing their work. These conferences will facilitate collaborations and interactions among the students and researchers in the region who work in the areas of Automorphic Forms, Representation Theory, and Number Theory.
series is a conference program designed to launch collaborations in automorphic forms and representation theory in the Texas-Oklahoma region. Over the past decade, several universities in North Texas and Oklahoma have grown research programs in automorphic forms, representation theory, and their interactions and applications. A unique opportunity arose to forge a focused community of support, exchange, and mentoring for students and faculty at all career levels - a community promoting multiple universities simultaneously. A series of meetings is now held twice a year in rotation by the Oklahoma State University, the University of Oklahoma, and the University of North Texas. Each TORA meeting features two prominent guest speakers from outside the Texas-Oklahoma region to present cutting-edge results. Regional researchers and graduate students also give talks describing their work. Collaboration is expected to nourish not only between institutions, but also among mathematical specialties. Number theorists and algebraists from diverse perspectives will glean new techniques and ideas during the talks and the informal interactions surrounding each meeting. TORA V took place September 20-22, 2013, at Oklahoma State University in Stillwater, OK. The local organizers were Mahdi Asgari and Roger Zierau. The conference consisted of 48 participants; 19 tenure/tenure-track faculty (3 female), 6 junior faculty (2 female), and 23 graduate students (8 female including one plenary speaker). There were 14 talks ranging in length from 30 munutes to one hour on current topics of interest in automorphic forms and representation theory. The graduate student plenary talk was given by Anna Puskas of Columbia University. The senior plenary speakers were Dan Barbasch of Cornell University and Dihua Jiang of the University of Minnesota. There was also a session of `Speed TORA' in which eight participants each gave 5 minute lectures. In five of the speed lectures and one 50 minute lecture graduate students presented their research. In addition, Alan Roche gave a lecture specifically for graduate students as preparation for one of the plenary lectures. Most of the participants were from the south-central region of the country. Five of the participants (other than the plenary speakers) were from other regions of the country, and one from abroad.
