Korea Institute for Advanced Study

The Korea Institute for Advanced Study is an advanced research institute in South Korea. It is located on a campus in Dongdaemun-gu, Seoul.
KIAS was founded in 1996, aiming to become a world leading research institute where international elite scholars gather and dedicate to fundamental research in basic sciences. Currently, there are three schools in the institute: mathematics, physics, and computational sciences. As of 2016, the institute has 3 distinguished professors, 26 professors, and 133 research fellows.
As its name suggests, the institute was modeled after the Institute for [Advanced Study] in Princeton, New Jersey, USA. KIAS is funded by the government and is a subordinate institute of KAIST.

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