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  • New governor

    People9 Oct

    New governor

    As well as a LIMS governor, Amit Jain is a co-founder of Signal Capital Partners, a $5bn private asset management firm, based in London.

  • New governor

    People8 Oct

    New governor

    As well as a LIMS governor, Ammad Ahmad is a founding partner at Atheneum, a market insights platform that has offices worldwide.

  • Meet Stephen Wolfram

    Eventscoming 13 oct

    Meet Stephen Wolfram

    Theoretical physicist and innovator Stephen Wolfram discusses the big questions facing science with the London Institute and its guests.

  • New governor

    People7 Oct

    New governor

    As well as a LIMS governor, Thore Graepel is Senior Vice President at Altos Labs, where he uses AI to explore the mechanisms of ageing.

  • AI’s history of hype

    Events7 Oct

    AI’s history of hype

    Thomas Haigh traces the rise of AI as an overhyped brand, from failed ideas to today’s powerful technologies and their unsettling impact.

  • People6 Oct

    New trustee

    As well as a LIMS trustee, Ben Delo is an entrepreneur and philanthropist whose causes include neurodiversity and mathematical discovery.

  • Eventscoming 17 oct

    Tiling and Tonnetze

    Konstanze Rietsch explores Euler’s Tonnetz through the lens of modern geometry, revealing new links between music, symmetry and harmony.

  • Eventscoming 16 oct

    Defects and scattering

    Christian Copetti from Oxford University shows how generalised symmetries guide quantum systems, shaping boundary conditions and defects.

  • Events3 Oct

    Integrable statistics

    Alessandro Torrielli examines spin, statistics and strange particle behaviour in 1+1-dimensional integrable models and AdS_3 string theory.

  • Events3 Oct

    Surveying scattering

    Prof. Mark Gross explores how scattering diagrams are a powerful tool for capturing wall-crossing data in many diverse mathematical contexts.

  • Events2 Oct

    Mechanics in a box

    Prof. Darryl Holm explores how geometric mechanics links symmetry-breaking to dynamics, revealing patterns in nature’s complex systems.

  • Press29 Sep

    Faraday’s masterclass

    In The Oldie, our writer Thomas Hodgkinson celebrates the Royal Institution’s Friday Evening Discourses, the world’s oldest science talks.

  • Events29 Sep

    How innovation works

    In the Royal Institution’s lecture theatre, Martin Reeves reveals the startling truth about how innovation happens in science and technology.

  • Events25 Sep

    Gravity from entropy

    Ginestra Bianconi illustrates her novel approach to quantum gravity, which is grounded in statistical mechanics and information theory.

  • Events24 Sep

    Entanglement in time

    Alexey Milekhin explores how the Sachdev–Ye–Kitaev model and “entanglement in time” can reveal new ways of understanding quantum dynamics.

  • Press18 Sep

    Friday night live

    In the Idler, our writer Thomas Hodgkinson recounts how Michael Faraday inaugurated a 200-year-old masterclass in public speaking.

  • Events15 Sep

    Maths in the age of AI

    In the Royal Institution’s lecture theatre, Prof. Yang-Hui He reflects on how growing AI-human collaboration is shaping the future of maths.

  • Papers28 Aug

    C, P and T in fractions

    Advances in Theoretical and Mathematical Physics accepts the paper “C-R-T Fractionalisation, Fermions, and Mod...” by Juven Wang et al.

  • Papers25 Aug

    Braid representations

    We demonstrate that the Lawrence–Krammer representation arises as a q-deformation of the symmetric square of the Burau representation.

  • Papers25 Aug

    Limits of attention

    We demonstrate that transformer attention can only discriminate well at shorter context lengths, losing clarity as input length increases.

  • Papers22 Aug

    Boosting AI reasoning

    By increasing the effective depth of neural networks, we improve their sequential reasoning abilities in tasks involving cellular automata.

  • Papers19 Aug

    Nonreciprocal breather

    Producing the first examples of breathing solitons in one-dimensional non-reciprocal media allows their propagation dynamics to be analysed.

  • People17 Aug

    Cognia Visitors

    We are recruiting visitors to spend time at the London Institute and collaborate on theoretical aspects of life, learning and emergence.

  • People15 Aug

    Mendeleev Visitors

    We are funding Russian theorists to visit us at the London Institute to collaborate and to strengthen ties with their home institutions.

  • Papers13 Aug

    Braid representations

    Journal Linear Algebra and its Applications accepts the paper “The Lawrence-Krammer representation is a quantization...” by Oleksandr Kosyak.

  • Jobs1 Aug

    Cognia Junior Fellows

    The London Institute is hiring theorists to join us as Junior Fellows and work on theoretical aspects of life, learning and emergence.

  • Papers25 Jul

    On universal dynamics

    Quantum many-body systems share patterns of dynamics that are exactly described by tridiagonal matrices based on continuous Hahn polynomials.

  • Papers25 Jul

    Irreducible group action

    We construct the unitary representation of an infinite-dimensional general linear group acting on a space and establish its irreducibility.

  • Events24 Jul

    CFT tensor network

    Prof. Zhengcheng Gu describes the construction of a fixed-point tensor network and its generalised symmetries in conformal field theory.

  • Events23 Jul

    Erdős and topology

    Prof. Misha Rudnev from the University of Bristol shows how algebraic geometry helped settle a famous discrete geometry conjecture of Erdős

  • Events23 Jul

    Enumerative Galois

    Prof. Frank Sottile of Texas A&M outlines the history and the state of the art of a keystone topic at the interface of algebra and geometry.

  • Events17 Jul

    Automated conjectures

    Madhuparna Das presents an AI agent automating novel mathematical conjecture discovery by integrating Lean’s Mathlib with LLMs’ creativity.

  • Press16 Jul

    Celebrating Langlands

    The Institute for Advanced Study discusses our science writer Ananyo Bhattacharya’s Nature feature on the geometric Langlands proof’s impact.

  • Press16 Jul

    Langlands unlocked

    The geometric Langlands proof brings mathematicians a step closer to a grand unified theory, Ananyo Bhattacharya writes in a Nature feature.

  • Events14 Jul

    Where two worlds meet

    Three leading experts show how the idea of symmetry forms key interfaces between algebra and geometry through the lens of their recent work.

  • Papers10 Jul

    Nonreciprocal breather

    The Journal Physical Review X accepts the paper “Non-reciprocal breathing solitons” by our Arnold Fellow Oleksandr Gamayun and coauthors.

  • Events7 Jul

    Decoding life with AI

    Mikhail Burtsev explains how artificial intelligence is helping to decipher genomes in the Royal Institution’s iconic lecture theatre.

  • Papers6 Jul

    Fibonacci anyons

    With IBM Quantum, we braid non-abelian Fibonacci anyons in string-net condensates to realise fault-tolerant universal quantum computation.

  • Papers3 Jul

    On universal dynamics

    The Journal of High Energy Physics accepts “Exactly solvable models for universal operator growth” by Oleksandr Gamayun and coauthors.

  • Events3 Jul

    Discriminants & physics

    Ed Segal from UCL will talk about semi-orthogonal decompositions of derived categories of toric varieties, coming from wall-crossing in GIT.

  • Papers2 Jul

    Optimal transfer

    We use the quantum brachistochrone method to design an optimal control strategy for the fastest quantum state transfer in long qubit chains.

  • People1 Jul

    Khodorkovsky Fellow

    Dr Kurnosov is a Khodorkovsky Research Fellow at LIMS. His work focuses on complex geometry, hyperkähler geometry and Calabi-Yau manifolds.

  • Website29 Jun

    Press redressed

    We’ve updated our press page by grouping together content into three new sections: Perspectives, Discovery in the News, and LIMS in the News.

  • Papers26 Jun

    Analysing the vacuum

    Birational methods in algebraic geometry are used to explicitly describe the vacuum structure of the Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model.

  • Events24 Jun

    Caltech in London

    Caltech alumni gather at the London Institute to catch up on Caltech news and hear a discussion on how Britain can help American science.

  • Papers16 Jun

    Standard Model vacuum

    The rich and intricate vacuum geometry of the Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model—a complex manifold—is characterised for the first time.

  • Events16 Jun

    The mortality equation

    Thomas Fink unveils a mathematical model showing programmed aging cannot be favoured by natural selection, even in a shifting environment.

  • Press11 Jun

    A Fields Medal for AI?

    The Financial Times features Prof. Yang-Hui He in a piece highlighting the potential impact of future AI models on academic mathematicians.

  • Papers10 Jun

    Optimal transfer

    Physical Review Letters accepts the paper “Time-optimal transfer of the quantum state in long qubit arrays” by Andrei Stepanenko and coauthors.

  • Papers10 Jun

    Reinforcing spectra

    We show reinforcement learning can be used to check whether a certain class of quantum field theory has a finite spectrum of stable particles.

  • Press8 Jun

    Rebel with a cause

    Ben Delo talks to Thomas Hodgkinson in Perspective about beating Asperger’s, smoking the competition and why he likes the London Institute.

  • People8 Jun

    London Institute Council

    We have updated the role of trustees and created a forum of governors to help us thrive. Together, these form the London Institute Council.

  • Press7 Jun

    The most valuable cargo

    As US science funding falters, Britain creating posts for top American researchers would be a win for science on both sides of the Atlantic.

  • Press6 Jun

    Outsmarting AI

    Prof. Yang-Hui He speaks to Scientific American about joining top mathematicians for a secret meeting to pose problems even AI can’t solve.

  • Events3 Jun

    The mathematical piper

    Martin Reeves explores the surprising harmony between the music and maths of the Great Highland bagpipe—complete with a live demonstration.

  • Events29 May

    AI for discovery

    Prof. Michael Douglas examines how advances in AI may soon lead to autonomous systems capable of making genuine mathematical discoveries.

  • Papers28 May

    Reflexions on Mahler

    Using Newton polynomials from reflexive polygons, we find that the Mahler measure and dessin d’enfants are in one-to-one correspondence.

  • Papers22 May

    Fredholm meets Toeplitz

    A new approach to the large distance asymptotic of the finite-temperature deformation is discussed for a sine-kernel Fredholm determinant.

  • Press21 May

    Talking murmurations

    Prof. Yang-Hui He discusses AI breakthroughs in mathematics with podcaster Curt Jaimungal–including his work on the murmuration conjecture.

  • Press16 May

    The shape of physics

    Prof. Yang-Hui He discusses geometry’s surprising impact on physics and their interplay through the ages on Quanta’s The Joy of Why podcast.