The 2012 Midwest Geometry Conference will take place May 12-13, 2012 at the University of Oklahoma, located in Norman, Oklahoma. Whereas the Midwest Geometry Conference had been an annual meeting since its founding in 1991 until 2007, this 2012 conference is committed to revive the Midwest Geometry Conference. Everyone is welcome! Minorities, women, persons with disabilities, graduate students, recent Ph.D.s, postdoctoral researchers, junior faculty, and high school math teachers are especially encouraged to participate. There will be no registration fee. Lectures will take place in Physical Sciences Building. There will be a conference dinner on Saturday night, and there will be no fee to attend.

The conference will highlight recent developments and new research directions in a number of areas that include (but are not limited to): p-harmonic geometry, minimal varieties, geometric flows, complex and Riemannian geometry, conformal geometry, geometry of submanifolds, convex geometry, stochastic differential geometry, integral geometry, algebraic geometry, geometric measure theory, metric geometry, partial differential equations, several complex variables, Finsler geometry, mathematical physics, and related problems.

Speakers:

• Bang-Yen Chen (Michigan State University)
• Some optimal inequalities for Lagrangian submanifolds in complex space
• Jui-Tang Chen (National Taiwan Normal University)
• Liouville properties for p-harmonic maps
• Chenxu He (Lehigh University)
• Warped product Einstein structure
• Ralph Howard (University of South Carolina)
• Tangent Cones and Regularity of Convex Sets
• Weiping Li (Oklahoma State)
• Poincare-Hopf type formula for Chern character
• Xiang-Dong Li (Chinese Academy of Sciences, China)
• Riesz transforms and L^p-Hodge decomposition on complete Riemannian manifolds
• Ye Li (University of Oklahoma)
• Recent progress on geometric inequalities on Riemannian manifolds and complex manifolds with applications
• Xiaochun Rong (Rutgers University)
• Continuity of extremal transitions and flops for Calabi-Yau manifolds
• Jan Segert (University of Missouri, Columbia )
• Geometric Completions of Isomonodromic Deformations
• Christina Sormani (Lehman College and CUNY Graduate Center )
• The Positive Mass Theorem, the Penrose Inequality and the Intrinsic Flat Distance
• Changyou Wang (University of Kentucky)
• Energy identity for approximate biharmonic maps and their applications.
• Shihshu Walter Wei (University of Oklahoma)
• Curvature, Criticality, Convervation Laws, and Unity in p-Harmonic Geometry
• Henry Wente (University of Toledo)
• The Analysis of Bifurcations and Symmetry-breaking Phenomena for Problems in Capillary Theory
• Lina Wu ( BMCC of City University of New York)
• The Equivalence between a harmonic form and a closed co-closed form under some appropriate growth estimates
• Paul Yang (Princeton University)
• Compactness of conformally compact Einstein metrics in 3+1 dimension
• Jiazu Zhou (Southwest University, China)
• On planar algebraic integral geometry

The Midwest Geometry Conference 2012 is supported by:

• The National Science Foundation
• The University of Oklahoma Research Council

Contact Person or Organizer:

• Shihshu Walter Wei (Oklahoma)

Co-Organizers:

• Marilyn Breen(Oklahoma)
• Quo-Shin Chi(Washington University)
• Hao Fang(Iowa)
• Junfang Li(Alabama)
• Weiping Li(Oklahoma State)
• Zongming Shen(Indiana Univ.-Purdue Univ. Indianapolis)
• May Yuan(Center for Spatial Analysis, Oklahoma)