The host for this year's conference---the guy who had been put in charge of organizing it---was a Mexican physics who works at the Technical Institute in the capital. He brought about half dozen other people with him, his graduate schools, all of them Mexican as well. Our host gave the opening talk. It was out-of-the-ballpark good---on one of my favorite topics, namely the ongoing mystery of why the corona of the Sun (the outer fringe) has a temperature that is much greater than the surface of the sun.
There was a Russian, who has a position in Mexico as well. He gave a talk on field theory on the second day. Very mathematical, the way a Russian talk usually is.
There was a Cuban professor there too. She gave a great talk on neutron stars. She invited us to come to her astrophysical conference in Havana next year.
Everyone else was either from the United States (by birth or by immigration), or from Israel.
Ironically Larry Horwitz from Tel Aviv was not there. Martin said he can't travel anymore unfortunately. The guy has put in his years.
Martin, who now runs everything, was Larry's graduate student the last time we met, in Houston, at the first conference twenty years ago.
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