Many eminent physicists and young academicians and researchers from the world over convened at the three-day conference, held from 24 to 26 February 2010, which could be described as a small-scale gathering of some of World Scientific's most distinguished authors and editors, who were also invited conference speakers and participants. They included C N Yang, Gerard 't Hooft, Harald Fritzsch, Kerson Huang, Stephen Adler, Jonathan Ellis, Paul Frampton, Hagen Kleinert, Rabindra Mohapatra, Mikhail Shifman, John Schwarz, and Spenta Wadia, just to name a few. (Listed in the side-bar on page 2 are some of World Scientific's authors/editors, who attended the conference, and their book publications.)

Under the theme of Quantum Mechanics, Elementary Particles, Quantum Cosmology and Complexity, the conference was conducted in camaraderie over a festival of lectures and dialogue exchanges. Some of Gell-Mann's former students and colleagues reminisced about the time they spent with Gell-Mann, with anecdotes about Gell-Mann as a teacher as well as a researcher. Gell-Mann, gave an interesting talk titled, "Some Lessons from 60 Years of Theorizing", as he emphasized the need for young scientists to have the guts to defy conventional perceived theories or ideas.