The Institute for Advanced Study (IAS) seeks to ignite creative, innovative, and profound research and discovery in the sciences, humanities, and the arts. The Institute for Advanced Study is a site, a concept, and a community dedicated to public and intellectual exchanges across the fields of human endeavor.

The Institute's core programs include public events, residential fellowships for faculty and graduate students, and research and creative collaboratives. The Institute has also partnered with the Bat of Minerva, a local-access cable TV show specializing in the art of the autobiographical interview, to document the intellectual lives of creative and thoughtful people from academics to farmers to electroacoustic musicians.

http://ias.umn.edu