Life requires motion. Geometry provides tools for solving problems in motions such as Kepler’s Law. From the earliest times to the present day, Geometry has played an indispensable role in human civilizations and the development of sciences and engineering. The Midwest Geometry Conference had been an annual meeting since its founding in 1991 until 2007, and thanks to the NSF it was revived in 2012 at The University of Oklahoma, Norman.

The award supported two conferences in geometry. The 20th Midwest Geometry Conference 2015 was held at the University of Oklahoma, January 17-18, 2015. The conference highlighted recent developments and new research directions such as p-harmonic geometry, geometry and topology of submanifolds, Lie groups and geometric representation theory, L^p cohomology and nonlinear Hodge theory, uniqueness in analysis, geometry and topology, geometric flows, stable minimal varieties, complex and Riemannian geometry, metric and differential geometry, conformal geometry, algebraic geometry, geometric measure theory, partial differential equations, geometric function theory, several complex variables, symplectic geometry, mathematical physics, and related problems. The fifty-minute speakers were Richard L. Bishop (Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), Alfonso Carriazo (Universidad de Sevilla, Spain), Bang-Yen Chen (Michigan State University), Karsten Grove (University of Notre Dame), Robert Gulliver (University of Minnesota), Chiu-Chu Mellisa Liu (Columbia University), Ovidiu Munteanu (University of Connecticut), Lei Ni (University of California at San Diego), Xiaocun Rong (Rutgers University at New Brunswick),  Jie Qin (University of California at Santa Cruz), Shihshu Walter Wei (University of Oklahoma), Joseph A. Wolf (University of California at Berkeley). The 30-minute speakers were Ye Li (Central Michigan University), Bogdan Suceav? (California State University, Fullerton), Lina Wu ( BMCC of City University of New York), Handan Yildirim (Istanbul University, Turkey). There were also two (2) pre-conference lectures by Karsten Grove and Joseph A. Wolf, and one (1) post-conference lecture by Handan Yildirim. In addition, Special Sessions “Discussions on open problems”, and “Future directions of the 20th Midwest Geometry Conference” were provided. Furthermore, Weiping Li and Shihshu Walter Wei have published American Mathematical Society Contemporary Mathematics Volume 646 - Geometry and Topology of Submanifolds and Currents. The papers in this volume are mainly from Midwest Geometry Conferences, cf. http://www.ams.org/books/conm/646/. For more details about the 20th Conference,  please see

                                     http://www.math.ou.edu/mgc20/

The 21^st Midwest Geometry Conference 2016 was held at Wichita State University, March 16-18, 2016. The conference featured Elliptic equations with geometric applications, Geometric analysis, Integral Geometry, Complex Geometry. The plenary speakers were David Auckly (Kansas State University), Ivan Blank (Kansas State University), Robert Finn (Stanford University), Peter Kuchment (Texas A & M University), Chiu-Chu Melissa Liu (Columbia University), Heather Macbeth (MIT), John McCuan (Georgia Institute of Technology), Ray Treinen(Texas State University), Shihshu Walter Wei (University of Oklahoma).There were also 30-minute lectures by Jui-Tang Chen (National Taiwan Normal University), Mozhgan (Nora) Entekhabi (Wichita State University), Huy T. Nguyen (University of Oklahoma), Handan Yildirim (Istanbul University & Michigan State University). For more details about the 21st Conference,  please see

                                      http://www.math.wichita.edu/mgc21/  

The organizers received extremely positive feedback about the conferences: several graduate students expressed their appreciation for the opportunity to speak on their thesis results and the horizons they expanded. The Midwest Geometry Conferences have brought researchers of national and international stature to the Midwest to discuss their research and to interact with mathematicians from the Midwest and surrounding states. The award is vital to the success of the conference and the development of the research in Geometry and related fields. Especially in the Midwest, several hundred kilometers typically separate one research department from another. Formal measures must be taken to bring remote mathematicians, and potential mathematicians, together so that they become a part of a wider research group, and enhance the educational opportunities in the Midwest.

We are most grateful for the financial support from NSF and acknowledge this in multiple ways, such as in our conferences, presentations, seminar announcements, published books, articles, proceedings, web pages, etc. 

Last Modified: 05/01/2017
Modified by: Shihshu Walter Wei