Institute of foundational knowledge, or IPM, Central Research in Iran, which in 1367 was established and headed by it, Mohammad Javad Larijani is responsible. This center, previously the "Research Center for Theoretical Physics and mathematics" was called.

this institute is the first government organization in Iran that connected to the internet. Also, years later, the project domain registration .ir's with the efforts by the southern launch.

this institute has several research institute is:

School of mathematics
School of physics
Institute of Computer Science
Institute of cognitive science
School of nano-sciences
Institute, philosophy, analytical
Institute of astronomy
Research Institute for particle and
a science lab, and the computational
Department of computing, Turin (grid computing)