This is a collection of lecture notes from the conference CIMPA-UNESCO-CHINA Research School 2010: Automorphic forms and L-functions, held at the Weihai campus of Shandong University, China in August 2010. Included are lectures given by J. Cogdell, G. Harcos, Xiaoqing Li, P. Michel, A. Reznikov, F. Shahidi, and Yangbo Ye.

These lectures provide a helpful introduction to automorphic forms and L-functions, and to the arithmetic applications thereof.