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Events5 Jun
Meet Neil Turok
In a new video, Neil Turok discusses the future of theoretical physics, the impact of AI and how to build institutes for fundamental science.
Papers1 Jun
Deep-layer distribution
The output distribution of a deep-layered machine with random logics exhibits a critical network depth, at which it is maximally biased.
Papers25 May
Three fermion families
A colour symmetry extension of baryon plus lepton symmetric gapped quantum topological order replaces families of massive sterile neutrinos.
People18 May
Cognia Junior Fellow
Justin Tan is a Cognia Junior Research Fellow at LIMS. His work focuses on string theory, computational geometry and AI-assisted mathematics.
Events18 May
Frontiers of AI
Mikhail Burtsev and Yang-Hui He explore advances in AI, from long-context transformers to the impact of machine intelligence on science.
People15 May
New governor
As well as a LIMS governor, Devon Cross is president of Logos Forums, which runs strategic simulations spanning tech, finance and security.
Events14 May
AI meets string theory
Andre Lukas shows how machine learning tackles string theory’s vast data, uncovering patterns, exploring its landscape and solving equations.
Events13 May
Meet Neil Turok
Neil Turok discusses the future of theoretical physics, the impact of AI and how to build and lead institutes for fundamental research.
Events13 May
A simpler cosmology
Neil Turok presents a minimal paradigm for cosmology that explains the universe’s large-scale structure, dark matter and the Standard Model.
Papers5 May
A new leptogenesis
We propose that dark matter consists of topological order, so gapped anyon excitations decay to generate the Standard Model's lepton asymmetry.
Papers1 May
An 8-fold way for CRT
Varying the spacetime dimensions fermions occupy shows charge-conjugation C, space-reflection R and time-reversal T symmetries are 8-fold periodic.
Events23 Apr
Unstable singularities
Javier Gómez-Serrano shows how machine learning uncovers unstable singularities in fluid dynamics equations, achieving near-maximal accuracy.
Papers16 Apr
Permuting the roots
The Journal of the European Mathematical Society accepts “Permuting the roots…” by our Fellow Alexander Esterov and his coauthor.
Papers9 Apr
Multi-path transfer
Simultaneous propagation along multiple paths speeds excitation transfer in long-range lattices, proving an evident quantum advantage.
Events9 Apr
Topological anomalies
Weicheng Ye presents a framework for anomalies in topological orders and shows how they determine which phases can be physically realised.
Events7 Apr
Continuous gauging
Matthew Yu introduces a categorical framework for gauging symmetries and constructs Symmetry Topological Field Theories with boundaries.
Events7 Apr
Non-orientable TQFTs
Ippo Orii surveys topological field theories and discusses the implications of recent progress in extending them to non-orientable manifolds.
People6 Apr
How I work
Thomas Hodgkinson describes his routine and the tricks and techniques he deploys for getting his writing done and placing it in the press.
People6 Apr
How I work
Thomas Fink describes the routines, rituals and habits that he has developed for his research and writing and running the London Institute.
Events2 Apr
New maths with AI
Adam Zsolt Wagner discusses how AI-driven search in language space accelerates mathematical discovery and progress on long-standing problems.
Papers20 Mar
An 8-fold way for CRT
The journal Physical Review B accepts “C-R-T fractionalisation in the first quantised Hamiltonian theory” by Juven Wang and his coauthors.
Events16 Mar
Entanglement matters
In a new video, colloquium speaker Frank Verstraete shows how tensor networks harness entanglement to simulate quantum many-body systems.
Papers13 Mar
A new leptogenesis
The journal Physical Review Research accepts the paper “Topological leptogenesis” by the London Institute’s Ben Delo fellow Juven Wang.
Papers10 Mar
An AI phase change
Weight pruning uncovers critical behaviour in deep neural networks with a sharp transition from functional cooperation to disordered failure.
Events9 Mar
Formal proofs with AI
Kevin Buzzard opens AIMS with his views on what a new era of formalised maths, Lean and AI—verified proofs mean for the future of research.
Events5 Mar
Simon and the ATLAS
In the third Simon Norton Lecture, Robert Curtis will describe Simon’s pivotal contributions to the classic ATLAS of Finite Groups.
Press4 Mar
A home for theory
A major gift has launched the London Institute’s campaign to build a permanent home for the world’s greatest theorists, says Civil Society.
Events4 Mar
Entanglement matters
Frank Verstraete shows how tensor networks harness entanglement to simulate strongly correlated quantum matter and reveal hidden symmetries.
Press3 Mar
Gift to science
Ben Delo has given the London Institute one of the biggest donations ever to a research centre outside Oxford and Cambridge, says The Times.
Press3 Mar
A better way
In The Spectator, our director Thomas Fink launches our £60m endowment campaign, which aims to change how the world does science.
Press3 Mar
Nobel endeavour
Times Higher Education reports on Ben Delo’s donation to the London Institute's endowment, to support its mission to revolutionise academia.
Press3 Mar
Pledge of faith
The entrepreneur Ben Delo has pledged £20m towards the London Institute's £60m endowment campaign, reports the science editor of the FT.
Press3 Mar
Protecting science
Ben Delo's £20m pledge to the London Institute aims to counter Britain's inconsistent science funding, reports Research Professional News.
News3 Mar
Exceptional Campaign
Today we launch our Exceptional Campaign, building on a lead gift from Ben Delo to raise a £60m endowment to support our work in perpetuity.
Papers2 Mar
Topological boundary
We show that Weyl fermions and anomalous topological order in 4 dimensions can live on the edge of the same 5-dimensional superconductor.
Events25 Feb
Learn AI for maths
The London Institute hosts a 14-week course by Nebius Academy on using AI to explore ideas and generate and test conjectures in mathematics.
People24 Feb
New governor
As well as a LIMS governor, Aleksei Makin is the founder of Cognia AI, a lab that does research at the interface of GenAI and neuroscience.
Papers20 Feb
Deep learning simplicity
We give a theory for the output of deep-layered machines and show that, as the network depth increases, it is biased towards simple outputs.
People18 Feb
New governor
As well as a LIMS governor, Katya Gorbatiouk is a capital markets executive and the Head of Investment Funds at the London Stock Exchange.
Events16 Feb
Quantum energy bounds
Eleni Kontou explores energy conditions in classical general relativity and QFT, showing how quantum bounds constrain negative energy.
Events13 Feb
Piano and patterns
The Grynyuk brothers perform piano music for four hands by Brahms and Schubert, with a mathematical interlude by LIMS Fellow Yang-Hui He.
Events12 Feb
Cosmic string duality
Shu-Heng Shao analyses twist defects in 4d Maxwell theory, deriving their operator spectrum and a chiral sector from classical wave equations.
Jobs10 Feb
Arnold & Landau Fellow
The London Institute is recruiting a Russian theoretical physicist to join us as an Arnold & Landau Fellow, starting as soon as possible.
Events5 Feb
Phases and phase gates
Alison Warman explains how Symmetry Topological Field Theory classifies quantum phases and informs advances in quantum information research.
Jobs4 Feb
Cognia Junior Fellows
The London Institute is hiring two Junior Fellows to work on theoretical aspects of life, learning and emergence, each for three years.
Papers29 Jan
Three-family puzzle
Extending family symmetry by colour cancels a Standard Model global anomaly, linking three colours to favour three fermion generations.
Papers29 Jan
AI for error correction
The journal NPJ Artificial Intelligence accepts paper “Machine learning discovers new champion codes” by Yang-Hui He and his coauthors.
Events29 Jan
Functional freedom
Philosopher James Read explores how ideas of functional freedom shape the renowned mathematician Roger Penrose’s critique of string theory.
Papers22 Jan
Exact hard-rod dynamics
A canonical quantum fluid model is solved exactly, revealing universal correlation patterns governed by Gaussian random-matrix ensembles.
Press6 Jan
Probing AI’s limits
Arnold & Landau AI Fellow Mikhail Burtsev is exploring how machine learning models reason. The answer could make tools like ChatGPT smarter.
Events5 Jan
Meet Edward Frenkel
Edward Frenkel charts his path from Moscow to Berkeley and the quest for a unified theory of maths with the London Institute and its guests.
Papers1 Jan
Higher energies
Generalising the recent Kelley–Meka result on sets avoiding arithmetic progressions of length three leads to developments in the theory of the higher energies.
Papers31 Dec 2025
Fermionic dark matter
Gravitational anomalies causing baryon and lepton number violation in the Standard Model are resolved using new fermionic topological orders.
People16 Dec 2025
New governor
As well as a LIMS governor, Nick Longrich is a palaeontologist and writer, and senior lecturer in evolutionary biology at Bath University.
Papers16 Dec 2025
Standard Model vacuum
The rich and intricate vacuum geometry of the Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model—a complex manifold—is characterised for the first time.
Papers15 Dec 2025
AI for error correction
Machine learning finds “champion” codes by predicting and optimising their minimum Hamming distance, a measure of a code’s robustness.
Events15 Dec 2025
Finite vs continuous
Pavel Putrov explores surprising connections between 3D topological gauge theories based on finite groups and their continuous counterparts.
Events12 Dec 2025
Meet Edward Frenkel
Edward Frenkel charts his path from Moscow to Berkeley and the quest for a unified theory of maths with the London Institute and its guests.
Events11 Dec 2025
Permutation group limits
Colva Roney-Dougal gives new bounds on minimal generating sets in permutation groups and shows what they reveal about product replacement.
Events11 Dec 2025
Feynman’s last wish
Edward Frenkel illuminates Feynman’s final quest—to learn the Bethe Ansatz—with fresh insights from the geometric Langlands correspondence.