Dear All,

I am pleased to send this second announcement of TORA VIII, the Eighth Texas-Oklahoma Representations and Automorphic Forms Conference, scheduled to take place at Oklahoma State University (OSU) in Stillwater, OK from Friday, March 31, 2017 through Sunday, April 2, 2017. This email contains more information about the conference including registration and how to apply for support to take part in the conference. Further emails about the conference will only be sent to registered participants.

The conference will begin with a joint plenary talk and OSU Math Department Colloquium by Professor Ben Brubaker of University of Minnesota at 3:30 PM on Friday (with registration at 3:00 PM). Two more plenary talks will be given by Professors Freydoon Shahidi of Purdue University and Birgit Speh of Cornell University. We will also have a junior plenary talk by Dr. Shuyang Cheng of University of Michigan. The conference will end in early afternoon (around 1 PM or so) on Sunday. A preliminary webpage for the conference is available at

http://math.okstate.edu/people/asgari/tora8.html <http://math.okstate.edu/people/asgari/tora8.html> which will be updated periodically.