Over the last 21 years, the Annual Workshop on Automorphic Forms and Related Topics has remained a small and friendly conference. Those attending range from students to new PhD's to well established researchers. For young researchers, the conference has provided support and encouragement; for accomplished researchers, it has provided the opportunity to mentor as well as a forum for exchanging ideas. The workshop has become internationally recognized for both its high-quality research talks and its supportive atmosphere for junior researchers. Participants present cutting-edge research in all areas related to automorphic forms. These include Maass wave forms, elliptic curves, Siegel and Jacobi modular forms, special values of L-functions, random matrices, quadratic forms, applications of modular forms, and many other topics. In addition to research talks, last year's workshop featured a panel discussion on the topic of going from a research rut to results to publication, and another one on attracting and graduating successful students. Based on the success of these sessions, we plan to have panel discussion sessions this year as well. Our topics will be (1) How to start and maintain mathematical collaboration, and (2) Balancing teaching, research, and life; various tricks of the trade.