The first Midwest Optimization Meeting was organized at Western Michigan University in 1997 in order to bring the experts, young researchers, and graduate students from the nearby states, working in the field of variational analysis, to meet and discuss the recent developments in the state of art of this rapidly growing subject. Since then, 24 meetings have been held in 13 different places in the Midwest. This meeting has been a one-day or two-day event and has grown slowly in size. The attendance has ranged between 50 and 70; approximately 90% of the participants have been domestic. Typically there are 14 contributed talks, all given by world leaders in the field, graduate students, and postdoctoral fellows with recent outstanding results.
2022 Waterloo University, Waterloo, ON, Canada
2021 Grand Valley State University, Grand Rapids MI
2020 Online
2019 University of Northern Illinois, DeKalb
2018 Miami University, Oxford, OH
2017 Oakland University
2016 Michigan State University
2015 Loyola University Chicago, Chicago, IL
2014 Loyola University Chicago, Chicago, IL
2013 University of Western Ontario, Ontario, Canada
2012 Western Michigan University
2011 Fields Institute, Toronto, Canada
2010 Wayne State University
2009 Western Michigan University
2008 Western Michigan University
2007 University of Michigan
2006 Miami University
2005 Western Michigan University
2004 Wayne State University
2003 Oakland University
2002 University of Michigan
2001 Western Michigan University
1998 Western Michigan University
1997 Western Michigan University