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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)


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


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)



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)


Interconnections and Regional Narratives in Mediterranean ArchaeologyCoordinated by Mario Szanjder Luis Roniger (The Hebrew University)



Ancient Arabia and its relations With Surrounding Cultures Professor Michael Lecker and Prof. Joseph Patrich (Hebrew University)


Personal Versus Established ReligionProfessor Meir Bar-Asher Brouria Ashkelony (Hebrew University)


Behavioral EconomicsProfessor Michael Eyal Winter (Hebrew University)


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)


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.)


Practical and Theoretical Rationality: A Comparative StudyProposed by: Prof. Ruth Weintraub (Tel Aviv U.)


Jewish Physicians in Medieval Christian Europe: Professional Knowledge as a

Cultural ChangeProposed by: Prof. Gad Freudenthal (CNRS, Paris)

Dr. Reimund Leicht (The Hebrew U.)


Bounded Rationality: Beyond the Classical Paradigm

Proposed by: Prof. Elchanan Ben-Porath (The Hebrew U.)


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

http://www.isa.unibo.it/








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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