The Institute for Advanced Study

The fifteenth annual Prospects in Theoretical Physics program will convene more than 100 graduate students and postdoctoral scholars from around the world at the Institute for Advanced Study from July 18 to 29 to explore “Computational Plasma...

The Council for Advancement and Support of Education has named the Institute for Advanced Study a silver award winner of its 2016 Circle of Excellence awards program. IAS was recognized for its brief film “An Inside View of IAS,” which captures the...

Veena Das, Krieger-Eisenhower Professor of Anthropology at Johns Hopkins University, and Lorraine Daston, Director at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, have joined the IAS Board of Trustees, effective May 7, 2016.

“I am not unaware of the fact that I have sketched out an educational Utopia. I have deliberately hitched the Institute to a star; it would be wrong to begin with any other ambition or aspiration.” -- Abraham Flexner, Founding Director 1930–39

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The National Math Festival will bring together some of the most fascinating mathematicians of our time to inspire and challenge participants to see math in new and exciting ways.

The Institute for Advanced Study has selected Steven Holl to design its new Rubenstein Commons, named after the Carlyle Group co-founder and philanthropist David Rubenstein.

In choosing among the proposals, Robbert Dijkgraaf, Institute Director and...

Warren Buffett has made some $50 billion doing things his own way, so it was completely consistent that at The Forbes 400 Summit on Philanthropy, held at the iconic main branch of the New York Public Library, rather than take a book out of the...

The Institute for Advanced Study, one of the world’s leading centers for theoretical research into fundamental aspects of the sciences and humanities, has received a $100 million unrestricted challenge grant from the Simons Foundation and the Charles and Lisa Simonyi Fund for Arts and Sciences.