The
Institute for Advanced Study (
IAS) in
Princeton, New Jersey, in the
United States, is an independent,
postdoctoral research center for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry founded in 1930 by American educator
Abraham Flexner, together with philanthropists
Louis Bamberger and
Caroline Bamberger Fuld. The IAS is perhaps best known as the academic home of
Albert Einstein,
John von Neumann and
Kurt Gödel, after their immigration to the United States. Although it is close to and collaborates with
Princeton University,
Rutgers, and other nearby institutions, it is not part of any university or federal agency and does not charge tuition or fees.