INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED STUDY

Institute for Advanced Study is an independent postdoctoral research center for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. It encourages and supports research in the sciences and humanities. It provides for the mentoring of scholars by faculty, and it ensures the freedom to undertake research that make significant contributions in any of the broad range of fields in the sciences and humanities studied at the institute. Institute for Advanced Study is a private, independent academic institut... ion, and its past faulty has included Albert Einstein, who remained at the Institute until his death in 1955, and distinguished scientists and scholars such as Kurt Gödel, J. Robert Oppenheimer, Erwin Panofsky, Hetty Goldman, Homer A. Thompson, John von Neumann, George Kennan, Hermann Weyl, and Clifford Geertz. Institute for Advanced Study was founded in 1930 by philanthropists Louis Bamberger and his sister Caroline Bamberger Fuld, and established through the vision of founding Director Abraham Flexner. It is based in Princeton, N.J.More