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Dedicated to expanding
and disseminating
scientific knowledge,
especially in the
physical sciences.

About The Institute...
In 1996 a group of scientists founded The Institute for Advanced Physics to continue their research interests with a vision of adding another, different avenue to the way fundamental research is done. The Institute works to clear obstacles to intellectual pursuits, and in so doing, fosters excellence in scientific research. This emphasis on research excellence has attracted a group a highly qualified scientists with a broad range of interests in science and mathematics. With our focus on research, we do not distinguish between "pure" and "applied"; we go where the ideas take us, and this has produced tangible results in terms of knowledge and technology. This complex interplay is the reason fundamental research is important and the reason why the Institute is important.
There are three primary parts to the Institute: our research programs, the underlying technology infrastructure, and funding efforts, depicted in the diagram at the right. Research programs are generally broadly-defined scientific activities that contain multiple programs; our foundational infrastructure comprises our computing resources (both hardware and software), which we are continually re-evaluating and upgrading, our access to research journals, our conference travel program, and our distributed collaboration tools. Our funding activities involve obtaining grants from various public and private foundations for specific research objectives, attracting endowment funding and obtaining operational funds from various sources. Our funding profile has been stable for the past several years with about 60% of revenue going directly to research programs, about 25% going to our infrastructure programs and about 15% going into funding activities.
The scientific affiliates of Insitute for Advanced Physics comprise a group of outstanding scientists that work on various fundamental and applied problems in physics, applied mathematics, and computer science loosely organized around scientific computation. We publish peer-reviewed technical papers, present at many scientific conferences, hold a patent for a signal processing tool, and have built a solid infrastructure of computers and research tools. All of this has been done very economically; we have received grants from agencies such as the National Science Foundation and the Department of Energy, but our primary revenue source (more than 90%) comes from private donations. Our Board of Directors overlaps with the scientific staff but is augmented by interested individuals drawn from industry, finance and venture organizations.