Next year's topic is Addiction. I don't know what the topic is for the year after that. I can keep you posted if you're generally interested in thinking about it, though! I'm not planning to go next year because it took a lot out of me to drive back and forth and go to all the everything all day, and Addiction is an interesting topic but not central enough to my interests to make it worth the outlay of limited Mris. However, I'm definitely going to be keeping an eye on the topics and deciding carefully, because I expect there will be years coming fairly soon when it is worth the time.

If you and suzanne were coming, though, different calculation. Also, you would probably want to think about getting a hotel in St. Peter or Mankato (10-15 minutes away) rather than the Twin Cities, making the driving component of it far less of an issue and giving you a quiet retreat space as at a convention (though not quite on-site). I would also have recommendations for quiet space during the day (THE ARB) and stuff. We would do logistics if you were coming. It would be good. I am good at logistics and would gladly roll out the logistics-soaked red carpet for you guys.

I don't know if there's anything similar in your area. It's not a general regional program, it's a specific relationship between this historically Swedish college and the Swedish Nobel Foundation, with a lot of work from the professors at the college. It would be great if people in other areas saw it and said, "Wow, that's something we should do," because in terms of outreach to high school students, students at other colleges, and members of the general community, it's doing something really amazing, but nearly all of the people who gave talks mentioned how unique and special it was.