ICTP served as the focal point of discussion at the 21 April session of the American Physical Society's annual meeting held in Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA. ICTP director Miguel Virasoro and Boris Kayser, visiting scientist at the Fermi National Laboratory Accelerator's Theory Group, Batavia, Illinois, USA, spoke on the role of ICTP in international science. Pervez Hoodbhoy, Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad, Pakistan, and Arnulfo Zepeda, Centro de Investigacion y de Estudios Avanzados, Mexico City, Mexico, examined the role of ICTP in South Asia and Latin America respectively.