The Institute for Studies in Theoretical Physics and Mathematics, often shortened to IPM (پژوهشگاه دانشهای بنیادی in Persian) is a government-sponsored research institute founded in 1989 in Tehran, Iran. The institute was the first Iranian organization to connect to the Internet. It is also the domain name registry of .ir domain names.

IPM is directed by Mohammad Javad Larijani, its original founder.

External links

• IPM's home page
• About IPM, from IPM's web pages