The IAS missions
The Institute for Advanced Studies of the University of Cergy-Pontoise is compelled to undertake cross-sectional missions and to then contribute to the activities of the laboratories.
The main missions of the IAS are to :
- promote scientific excellence
- develop international scientific connections
- develop cross-disciplinary research programs for the laboratories to go beyond and above their usual disciplinary scope
- support the scientific activities of the laboratories
To successfully carry out its missions, the IAS has implemented :
- a program of scientific events by expertise conferences, international congresses, thematic semesters from which a case study is being approached by transdiscipilnary reserach, guest lectures being delivered by IAS fellows for a wider range of public
- a program of visiting professors of all disciplines, hosted from several weeks to months either by the laboratories of the university of Cergy-Pontoise or within the IAS
Each year, some seventy international scientists have been invited and some thirty scientific events have been organized.