Award Abstract # 1855265
Texas-Oklahoma Representations and Automorphic Forms Conference Series

NSF Org: DMS
Division Of Mathematical Sciences
Recipient: UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA
Initial Amendment Date: February 13, 2019
Latest Amendment Date: May 19, 2021
Award Number: 1855265
Award Instrument: Continuing Grant
Program Manager: Andrew Pollington
adpollin@nsf.gov
 (703)292-4878
DMS
 Division Of Mathematical Sciences
MPS
 Directorate for Mathematical and Physical Sciences
Start Date: February 15, 2019
End Date: January 31, 2024 (Estimated)
Total Intended Award Amount: $16,000.00
Total Awarded Amount to Date: $16,000.00
Funds Obligated to Date: FY 2019 = $100.00
FY 2021 = $15,900.00
History of Investigator:
  • Kimball Martin (Principal Investigator)
    kmartin@math.ou.edu
  • Ameya Pitale (Co-Principal Investigator)
Recipient Sponsored Research Office: University of Oklahoma Norman Campus
660 PARRINGTON OVAL RM 301
NORMAN
OK  US  73019-3003
(405)325-4757
Sponsor Congressional District: 04
Primary Place of Performance: University of Oklahoma
Department of Mathematics
Norman
OK  US  73019-9705
Primary Place of Performance
Congressional District:
04
Unique Entity Identifier (UEI): EVTSTTLCEWS5
Parent UEI:
NSF Program(s): ALGEBRA,NUMBER THEORY,AND COM
Primary Program Source: 01001920DB NSF RESEARCH & RELATED ACTIVIT
01002122DB NSF RESEARCH & RELATED ACTIVIT
Program Reference Code(s): 7556, 9150
Program Element Code(s): 126400
Award Agency Code: 4900
Fund Agency Code: 4900
Assistance Listing Number(s): 47.049

ABSTRACT

This award supports participation in three meetings of the Texas-Oklahoma Representations and Automorphic Forms (TORA) conference series. The tenth meeting of the series will be held at the University of North Texas in Denton, TX, on April 5-7, 2019. Detailed information is available on the TORA X webpage: http://www.math.unt.edu/~richter/TORA/TORA10.html . The subsequent two conferences in the series are scheduled at Oklahoma State University in Stillwater, OK in Spring 2020 and at the University of Oklahoma in Norman, OK in Spring 2021, respectively. Each TORA conference will feature three invited plenary speakers from outside the Texas-Oklahoma region: two prominent senior researchers and one promising junior mathematician. In addition, regional graduate students and researchers will present their work. These weekend conferences will provide valuable opportunities for collaboration and interaction among the students and researchers in the region specializing in number theory, automorphic forms, and representation theory.

The interplay between automorphic forms and representation theory has recently seen several exciting new developments, which also fuel applications to several other fields. These developments include endoscopic classification of representations of orthogonal and symplectic groups and a proof of classification for classical groups that extends to covering groups. The TORA conference series has been successful in bringing together researchers working in automorphic forms and representation theory from the region and beyond, as well as their students, and in propelling innovation and collaboration. TORA X-XII will continue this success in collaborations and exchanges not only between institutions, but also among mathematical areas.

This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

PROJECT OUTCOMES REPORT

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Texas-Oklahoma Representations and Automorphic forms (TORA) is a conference series in the South Central United States devoted to automorphic forms and representation theory. There is a high concentration of researchers in these areas in North Texas and Oklahoma. This conference series helps forge a focused community reaching across institutions, a community of support, exchange, and mentoring for mathematicians at all stages.  The conferences bring in prominent researchers from around the world as well as many graduate students and researchers from nearby universities.

The conference series has been hosted in rotation by 3 universities: University of North Texas (UNT), Oklahoma State University (OSU), and the University of Oklahoma (OU) since 2011. This project funded the twelfth conference in the series, TORA XII at OU from October 13--15, 2023.  TORA XII featured three 50-minute plenary talks, six regular 20-minute talks,  ten 5-minute ``Speed TORA'' talks, as well as two learning sessions for graduate students. The plenary speakers were Rahul Dalal (Johns Hopkins University), Ellen Eischen (University of Oregon), and A. Raghuram (Fordham University).

There were 60 registered participants from 22 different institutions, including of 29 graduate students and 9 postdoctoral scholars. Funds were primarily used to support travel-related expenses for participants from other institutions.  Participants reported very positive experiences at TORA XII in an anonymous exit survey, such as meeting other researchers in their area, getting new research ideas, getting career advice, and getting invited to give seminars.


Last Modified: 05/07/2024
Modified by: Kimball L Martin

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