The Institute for Advanced Study
Mission Statement
The Institute is pledged to assemble a group of scientists and scholars who with their pupils and assistants may devote themselves to the task of pushing beyond the present limits of human knowledge and to training those who may “carry on” in this sense.
—Mission Statement of the Institute for Advanced Study by founding Director Abraham Flexner, Organization Meeting, October 10, 1930
The Institute for Advanced Study has served as one of the leading independent centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry since its establishment in 1930, advancing the frontiers of knowledge across the sciences and humanities. From founding IAS Faculty Albert Einstein, Erwin Panofsky, and John von Neumann to influential figures Emmy Noether, George Kennan, and J. Robert Oppenheimer to the foremost thinkers of the present, IAS is dedicated to enabling independent inquiry and fundamental discovery.
Each year, the Institute welcomes more than 250 of the world’s most promising post-doctoral researchers and scholars who are selected and mentored by a permanent Faculty, each of whom are preeminent leaders in their fields. Among present and past Faculty and Members, there have been 35 Nobel Laureates, 44 of the 62 Fields Medalists, and 23 of the 27 Abel Prize Laureates, as well as winners of the Pulitzer Prize in History; the Wolf, Holberg, and Kluge prizes; and many MacArthur and Guggenheim fellows, among other honors.
Photographs
For images of the IAS Director and current Faculty and Emeriti or recent images of the Institute grounds, please contact Lee Sandberg at (609) 951-4406 or lsandberg@ias.edu to inquire about permission to use the images.
Historical images are available through the Shelby White and Leon Levy Archive Center Digital Collections. To inquire about permission to publish archival images of Albert Einstein and other historical photographs related to the Institute, please contact archives@ias.edu.