The Midwest Geometry Conference had been an annual meeting since its founding in 1991 until 2007. The University of Oklahoma is one of the four founding institutions, and Shihshu Walter Wei was involved in organizing and lecturing at the very first conference in 1991. This 2012 conference is committed to revive the Midwest Geometry Conference, in addition to bring in researchers and scholars around the world to discuss their research and to interact with mathematicians and students from the Midwest and other regions at all levels.

It is a wonderful event or phenomenon in mathematics that the results of one discipline of thought have startling and unexpected consequences in another. The conference is a valuable networking opportunity, as well as a great venue for dialogue on mathematical concepts, ideas, theories, methods, interconnectedness, applications, problems, collaborations, and the direction of mathematics. While we believe in that diversity is a strength and the whole is greater than any one of its parts, the Midwest Geometry Conference has consisted of the following seventeen meetings:

• 1991 Kansas
• 1992 Kansas State
• 1993 Missouri-Columbia
• 1994 Iowa
• 1995 Washington University (St. Louis)
• 1996 Oklahoma
• 1997 Kansas
• 1998 Louisiana State
• 1999 Missouri-Columbia
• 2000 Iowa
• 2001 Wichita State
• 2002 North Dakota
• 2003 Washington University (St. Louis)
• 2004 Arkansas (Fayetteville)
• 2005 Ohio (Columbus)
• 2006 Oklahoma
• 2007 Iowa