Later this year, the Chapter will help sponsor the Ninth International Symposium on Physics of Materials. The meeting will take place in Guilin, in southern China. Other sponsors include the ICTP, National Science Foundation of China and Chinese Academy of Sciences. China's ICTP Chapter is the second of its kind. The first was established in India in 1993.
Funding comes largely from the Italian government.
Shreshtha was an ICTP Regular Associate Member from 1982 to 1994. During that time, he visited the Centre on eight different occasions.