The ICTP Scientific Council will hold its annual meeting on June 3 and 4. Members will review ICTP's scientific activities over the past year and suggest future directions for the Centre. Praveen Chaudhari, former Vice President of Science at IBM's Thomas J. Watson Research Centre, in Yorktown Heights, New York (USA), will preside over his first Council meeting. He replaces J. Robert Schrieffer, professor at Florida State University's National Magnetic Field Laboratory in Tallahassee, Florida (USA). Schrieffer, a Nobel Prize winner, had chaired the Council since 1993.