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IAS Mission Statement
As a national research institute anchored at the
Hebrew University its mission is to serve as a
catalyst for high quality, innovative,
collaborative research in a wide array of fields
since 1975.
The primary function is to host collaborative
research teams comprised of both Israeli and
foreign scholars.
Israel is a small country.
Should a small country have an IAS?
Yes, but with no compromise on quality.
Should a small country have several UBIAS?
Not obvious, solidify resources.
Institute for Advanced Studies
Israel Institute for Advanced
Studies at the Hebrew
University, Jerusalem
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IAS Activities
Activities of the IAS
Additional
activities
Workshops
Research
Groups
Schools
Research Groups at IAS
The primary function of the Institute is to support
joint research. Research groups generate a
dynamic interchange between scholars. A
research group is generally comprised of 8 leading
specialists in a given field 4 from Israel and 4 from
abroad. Each group is permitted an additional 3
visiting scholars to join for a duration of up to 2
months.
The team is customarily in residence for five or ten
months, and on occasions for three months.
Applications are open to all scholars
Research Groups at IAS
•The Academic Committee of the IAS selects 4 to 5 research
groups per year, which amounts to approximately 40
fellowships annually, fully covered with grants for their stay
and apartments during their stay.
• Topics may be from among the broad range of fields in the
humanities, social sciences, and natural sciences. Research
topics are not pre-determined by the Institute.
The Institute provides office space, a lecture hall, library,
audiovisual equipment, and computer and communications
network. The administrative staff at the Institute provides
researchers with an office and technical support. The
Institute’s dining-room serves lunch to Fellows and Visitors.
Charity and Piety in the Middle East in Late Antiquity and the Middle- Ages: Continuity and
TransformationCoordinated by Miriam Frenkel, Ben Zvi Institute; Yaacov Lev, Bar Ilan University
September 2006- February 2007
Movement Ecology: Establishing a Novel Interdisciplinary Field of Research to Explore the
Causes, Patterns, Mechanisms and Consequences of Organism MovementCoordinated by Ran Natan (The Hebrew University)
September 2006- August 2007
The Interface Between Evolutionary Biology and Game TheoryCoordinated by Sergiu Hart and Avi Shmida (Hebrew University)
September 2006- August 2007
Transmission and Appropriation of the Secular Sciences and Philosophy in Medieval
Judaism: Comparative Perspectives, Universal and National AspectsCoordinated by Ruth Glasner (Hebrew University) and Gad Freudenthal (CRNS paris)March 2007- August 2007
Combinatorics of Polytopes and Complexes: Relations with Topology and Algebra Coordinated by Gil Kalai (Hebrew University)
March 2007 - August 2007
Research Groups 2006-7
Research Groups 2007-8
Towards a New History of HasidismCoordinated by David Assaf (Tel Aviv University), Ada Rapaport-Albert (University College, London)September 1,
2007 – August 31, 2008
Neurons and Cognitive ProcessesCoordinated by Israel Nelken (The Hebrew University), Naftali Tishby (The Hebrew University), Hanoch Gutfreund
(The Hebrew University)
October 7, 2007 – February 28, 2008
Moral Psychology, Moral Motivation, and Moral RealismCoordinated by David Enoch (The Hebrew University)
March 1– August 31, 2008
Common Law Legal Transplants: A Comparative Historical AnalysisCoordinated by Ron Harris, Assaf Likhovski (both of Tel Aviv University)
March 1– August 31, 2008
Research Groups 2008-9
The Sociology of Contemporary Jewish Mysticism in Comparative Perspective Coordinated by Philip Wexler, Jonathan Garb (both form The Hebrew University )
September 1, 2008 – August 31, 2009
The Concept of Urban ChangesCoordinated by Ronnie Ell (The Hebrew University), Naftali Tishby (The Hebrew University), Hanoch Gutfreund
(The Hebrew University)
October 7, 2007 – February 28, 2008
Contesting Liberal Citizenship in Latin AmericaCoordinated by Mario Szanjder Luis Roniger (The Hebrew University)
March 1– August 31, 2008
Interconnections and Regional Narratives in Mediterranean ArchaeologyCoordinated by Mario Szanjder Luis Roniger (The Hebrew University)
March 1– August 31, 2008
Research Groups 2009-10
Ancient Arabia and its relations With Surrounding Cultures Professor Michael Lecker and Prof. Joseph Patrich (Hebrew University)
September 2009- August 2010
Personal Versus Established ReligionProfessor Meir Bar-Asher Brouria Ashkelony (Hebrew University)
September 2009- August 2010
Behavioral EconomicsProfessor Michael Eyal Winter (Hebrew University)
September 2009- August 2010
Research Groups 2010-11ENCOUNTERING SCRIPTURE IN OVERLAPPING CULTURES: EARLY JEWISH, CHRISTIAN AND MUSLIM
STRATEGIES OF READING AND THEIR CONTEMPORARY IMPLICATIONS
Proposed by: Mordechai Z. Cohen (Yeshiva University)
Meir Bar-Asher (The Hebrew University)
: September 1, 2010 - February 28, 2011
Langlands Duality in Representation Theory and Gauge TheoryProposed by: David Kazhdan (The Hebrew University)
Dates: September 1, 2010 - February 28, 2011
ALGORITHMIC GAME THEORY: THE NEXT DECADE Proposed by: Prof. Michal Feldman and Prof. Noam Nisan (the Hebrew U.)
Dates: March 1-August 31, 2011
COMPUTATION AND THE BRAIN Proposed by: Prof. Oron Shagrir (The Hebrew U.)
Prof. Eli Dresner (Tel-Aviv University)
Dates: March 1-August 31, 2011
CULTURAL ARCHAEOLOGY OF JEWS AND SLAVS: MEDIEVAL AND EARLY
MODERN JUDEO-SLAVIC INTERACTION AND CROSS-FERTILIZATIONProposed by: Prof. Moshe Taube and Alexander Kulik (The Hebrew U.)
Dates: March 1-June 1, 2011
SOVEREIGNTY, GLOBAL JUSTICE AND THE ETHICS OF WARProposed by: Yitzhak Benbaji (Bar-Ilan University)
Eyal Benvenisti (Tel Aviv University)
Dates: June 1-August 31, 2011
Research Groups 2011-12The Migration of Criminal Law Principles from National to International LawProposed by: Prof. Miriam Gur-Arye (The Hebrew U.)
Dates: September 1, 2011 - February 28, 2012
Practical and Theoretical Rationality: A Comparative StudyProposed by: Prof. Ruth Weintraub (Tel Aviv U.)
Dates: September 1, 2011 - February 28, 2012
Jewish Physicians in Medieval Christian Europe: Professional Knowledge as a
Cultural ChangeProposed by: Prof. Gad Freudenthal (CNRS, Paris)
Dr. Reimund Leicht (The Hebrew U.)
Dates: March 1-August 31, 2012
Bounded Rationality: Beyond the Classical Paradigm
Proposed by: Prof. Elchanan Ben-Porath (The Hebrew U.)
Dates: March 1-August 31, 2012
Integrability and Gauge/String DualityProposed by: Prof. Romuald A. Janik (Jagiellonian U.)
Prof. Matthias Staudacher (Max-Planck-Institute for Gravitational Physics, Potsdam)
Dates: March 1-June 1, 2012
Molecular ElectronicsProposed by: Prof. Amnon Aharony (Ben-Gurion U.)
Dates: June 1-August 31, 2012
Research Group Breakdown by Discipline 1999-2009
number of groups
Humanities 25
Natural Sciences 8
Social Sciences 6
Law 2
Research Group Fellows
by Geographic Distribution 1999-2009
Geographic Representation of IAS Fellows 1990-
2010
Research Group Fellows
Breakdown by Academic Institution 2000-2009
IAS Research Group Proposals
Accepted / Rejected 1999-2001
17
8
12
7
11
7
11 1010
6
10
22
18
Annual Schools at IAS
The Institute operates five short-term schools annually under the auspices of
the Victor Rothschild Memorial Symposia. They are in the field of Theoretical
Physics, Life Sciences, Economic Theory, Jewish Studies in Comparative
Religion, and Mathematics.
Three of the five schools are directed by Nobel laureates. Each school is
headed by an eminent scholar and an Israeli co-director. Senior scholars and
capable young students (doctoral and post-doctoral students from Israel and
abroad) enter into an exchange of knowledge for 7-10 days.
The Institute subsidizes participants in the form of travel grants, tuition or
hotel. The Israeli coordinator in coordination with IAS staff allocates
scholarships to candidates and assumes responsibility for technical
arrangements.
Scholars and students have traveled here from Western and Eastern Europe,
South and North America, China, India, Japan, Korea, the Philippines, North
Africa, and beyond.
Edward Witten - Director -
Fields Medalist
Steven Weinberg- Director
- Nobel Laureate
David Gross- Director -
Nobel Laureate
Physics School Lecturers and Participants
Distribution by Continent 1998-2009
Prof . Bert Sakmann -
Director - Nobel
Laureate
Prof. David Baltimore
Director - Nobel Laureate
Prof. Roger Kornberg
Director - Nobel Laureate
Peter Sarnak- Director -
Prof. Kenneth Arrow
Director - Nobel laureate Prof. Eric Maskin
Director - Nobel laureate
Prof. Eric Maskin
Director - Nobel laureate
Prof. Haym
Soloveitchik
Director
Experimental Schools 2009
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Workshops
The Institute for Advanced Studies allocates funds in the amount of $7,000 to $
28,000 US dollars for workshops. Researchers from academic institutions
around the world are invited to submit a proposal to the Academic Committee.
The IAS hosts 4 to 6 interactive workshops annually on a range of topics. This
is a round table meeting of experts. Workshops are 5 to 15 days long. Ph.D’s
students and post-docs, from Israel and abroad are invited to participate.
Workshops
IAS /ISF Workshops
From 2006 the IAS launched a series of in-depth international workshops in
collaborations with the ISF. The funding per event is of the order of $ 45,000. by
now about 20 such events have occurred.
Workshops Discipline 1999-2009
The Institute for Advanced Studies has a variety of international activities and
cooperative enterprises.
IAS International Activities
• ESF
The European Science Foundation and the Institute for Advanced Studies have an alliance to
support high quality schools in theoretical physics. Both enterprises are committed to encourage
academic interchange of students and scholars from Europe, Israel and worldwide. The ESF has
provided financial support in the amount of 75,000 Euros for four years to the IAS Physics
School. To foster this partnership, Prof. Bertil Anderson, CEO of the ESF, was invited by the IAS
to open the 2006 Physics School.
• NetIAS
NetIAS (Network of European Institutes for Advanced Study) is an informal network of currently 17 European
Institutes for Advanced Study (IAS), represented by their Directors. It was founded in 2004 on the initiative of the
Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin. Its main purpose is to engage in discussions with the European Commission
about a better participation of IAS in the European Research Area.
Members of NetIAS:
1. Center for Advanced Study at the Norwegian Academy of Sciences, Oslo
2. Center for Advanced Study, Sofia, Bulgaria
3. Centre of Research in the Arts, Social Sciences, and Humanities, Cambridge, UK
4. Collegium Budapest, Hungry
5. Collegium Helveticum, Swiss
6. Flemish Academy Center for Sciences and Arts, Brussles, Belgium
7. Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Study, Finland
8. Institute for Advanced Studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
9. Institute for Advanced Studies in the humanities; University of Edinburgh
10. Institute of Advanced Study - Università di Bologna, Italy
11. Institute for Human Sciences, Vienna, Austria
12. Maison des Sciences de l'Homme, Paris, France
13. Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study, Wassenaar
14. New Europe College, Bukarest, Romania
15. Robert Schuman Center of the European University Institute, Florence, Italy
16. Swedisch Center for Advanced Study in the Social Sciences, Uppsala
17. Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin, Germany
IAS International Activities
College De France
The Institute for Advanced Studies has approached the College De France with a venture
of cooperative academic activities. The declaration of cooperation is under
discussion at the present time.
• IAS Consortium
The IAS Consortium, also known as SIAS, is an informal group of "Some Institutes for
Advanced Study" that get together once a year. This consortium of American and
European institutes for advanced study began with six members in the early 1990s
and now numbers nine. There is a rotating chairmanship to which all SIAS
correspondence can be sent in a particular year.
The 9 Institutes that are part of SIAS:
1. Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton
2. Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Stanford
3. National Humanities Center/Research Triangle Park, North Carolina
4. Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study, Wassenaar
5. Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study in the Social Sciences, Uppsala
6. Collegium Budapest
7. Russell Sage Foundation, New York
8. Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard
9. Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin / Institute for Advanced Study at Berlin
In December 2006, Prof. David Gross and Prof. Eliezer Rabinovici
spoke to an audience of Jewish and Arab Israeli high school students
on the topics of "Einstein and the Unified Theory of Matter" and
"Strings: Musical Instruments in the Orchestra of the Universe". The
evening was designed to acquaint the students with science's
innovative path and to encourage an ideas exchange among young
scientists.
Outreach Lectures
Hebrew University Yad Hanadiv
IAS
ISSUES
Academic
Evaluation system: input, output
A vision beyond the horizon
Diversity of group formation
PERSONNEL
IAS jerusalem: 11 staff for 47 fellows + over 1000
Comparison (always complicated) :
NIAS: 21for 50
Stanford: 21 for 38
National Humanities Center: 28 for 39
Wissenschaftkolleg (Berlin) 40 for 40
Constraints within a university system
IT
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