Sponsors

PWIAS
Founded in 1991, the Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Studies is the senior research institute at the University of British Columbia. It supports basic research through collaborative, interdisciplinary initiatives that have the potential to make important advances in knowledge. The Institute brings together scholars from UBC with distinguished researchers and experts from around the world to investigate fundamental research drawing upon and contributing to a wide range of diverse disciplines. Of overriding concern for all Institute activities is excellence in research characterized by being fundamental, interdisciplinary, innovative, and unique.
   
Institute for Advanced Study of Technische Universität München
Founded in 2005, the Institute for Advanced Study of Technische Universität München is an outcome of TUM’s institutional strategy to promote top-level research in the so-called Excellence Initiative by the German federal and state governments and is a formal partner with the Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Study