The 2006 Midwest Geometry Conference will take place at the University of Oklahoma, Norman, beginning Friday noon, May 5, and continuing through mid-day Sunday, May 7, 2006.

Main topics include (but are not limited to): p-harmonic geometry; geometric flows; complex and Riemannian geometry; conformal geometry; convex geometry; minimal varieties, symmetric criticality and algebraic geometry; PDEs, geometric measure theory and mathematical physics.

Speakers:

• Jianguo Cao (Notre Dame)
• New Estimates for the d-bar Cauchy Problem and Geometric Applications
• Bennett Chow (University of California at San Diego)
• The work of Glickenstein on the combinatorial Yamabe flow
• Robert M Hardt (Rice University)
• Rectifiable Chains in a Metric Space with Coefficients in a Group
• Ralph Howard (University of South Carolina)
• Some Recent Results in the Geometric Tomography of Convex Bodies
• Wu-Yi Hsiang (University of California at Berkeley)
• Kenematic geometry of mass-triangles and the 3-body problem in celestial mechanics
• Xiaochun Rong (Rutgers University)
• Margulis Lemma for compact Lie groups
• Christina Sormani (Lehman College and CUNY Graduate Center)
• The Topology of Riemannian Manifolds of Nonnegative Ricci Curvature
• Changyou Wang (University of Kentucky)
• Heat flow of biharmonic maps and applications
• Mu-Tao Wang (Columbia University)
• On quasi-local mass and its positivity
• Guofang Wei (University of California at Santa Barbara)
• On the Stability of Kähler-Einstein Metrics
• Shihshu Walter Wei (University of Oklahoma)
• p-Harmonic Geometry - its yesterday, today, and tomorrow
• Henry Wente (University of Toledo)
• New Exotic Containers
• Paul Yang (Princeton University)
• Conformally invariant equations

The Midwest Geometry Conference 2006 is supported by:

• The National Science Foundation
• The Department of Mathematics at the University of Oklahoma
• The OU College of Arts and Sciences
• The OU Vice President for Research

Organizers:

• Marilyn Breen (Oklahoma)
• Robert M Hardt (Rice)
• Ralph Howard (South Carolina)
• Gary R. Jensen (Washington University)
• Palle Jorgensen (Iowa)
• Weiping Li (Oklahoma State)
• Shihshu Walter Wei (Oklahoma)
• Gerard Walschap (Oklahoma)
• Meijun Zhu (Oklahoma)