Korea Institute for Advanced Study
The Korea Institute for Advanced Study (한국 고등과학원 KIAS 韓國高等科學院) is an advanced research institute in Korea. It is located on a 30-acre (120,000 m2) campus at Hoegiro 85, Dongdaemun-gu, Seoul, Korea.[1]
KIAS was founded in 1996, aiming to become a world's leading research institute where international elite scholars gather and dedicate to fundamental research in basic sciences.[2] Currently, there are three Schools in the Institute: Mathematics, Physics, and Computational Sciences. As of 2012, the institute has 2 Distinguished Professors, 22 Professors, and 100 Research Fellows. [3]
As its name suggests, this Institute was founded modeled on IAS in Princeton, New Jersey (USA), although unlike its original, KIAS is funded by the government. Additionally, KIAS is a subordinary institute of KAIST (Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology.[4]
