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Papers22 Jul
Peculiar betas tamed
Inconsistencies between two approaches to deriving beta functions in two-dimensional sigma models are resolved by adding heavy superpartners.
Eventscoming on 31 Jul
Stable pairs
In this seminar, Fields Medalist Prof. Caucher Birkar talks about sheaf stable pairs in algebraic geometry, especially for Fano varieties.
Papers19 Jul
Elliptical murmurations
Experimental Mathematics accepts “Murmurations of elliptic curves,” by Yang He and coauthors, the first in a series of papers on the subject.
News18 Jul
Our vision
The London Institute’s vision is its fundamental purpose: “To use mathematics to discover the laws of the universe and our place within it.”
Papers15 Jul
Analysing amoebae
Genetic symbolic regression methods reveal the relationship between amoebae from tropical geometry and the Mahler measure from number theory.
Papers5 Jul
On AI-driven discovery
The journal Nature Reviews Physics accepts the paper “A triumvirate of AI driven theoretical discovery” by our Fellow Yang-Hui He.
People1 Jul
A&L Junior Fellow
Dr Arman Sarikyan is our new Landau Junior Research Fellow. His research focuses on links between birational geometry and derived categories.
Papers26 Jun
Landau meets Kauffman
Insights from number theory suggest a new way to solve the critical Kauffman model, giving new bounds on the number and length of attractors.
Papers26 Jun
Peculiar betas tamed
The journal Physical Review D accepts “First-order formalism for β functions in bosonic sigma models...” by Oleksandr Gamayun and coauthors.
Papers25 Jun
A kicked polaron
The journal SciPost Physics accepts “One-dimensional Fermi polaron after a kick” by our Arnold Fellow, Oleksandr Gamayun, and his coauthor.
Papers25 Jun
On AI-driven discovery
Reviewing progress in the field of AI-assisted discovery for maths and theoretical physics reveals a triumvirate of different approaches.
Papers19 Jun
Slight degenerations
Tools commonly used to investigate the geometry of a system of sparse polynomial equations are extended to include many important new cases.
Papers18 Jun
Multiplicative loops
The journal Physical Review Research accepts the paper “Exact behavior of the critical Kauffman model with connectivity one” by Thomas Fink.
Press11 Jun
Beyond politics
Russia's brain drain is Britain’s gain. Yet the pursuit of knowledge, through global scientific collaboration, should transcend politics.
Papers6 Jun
Landau meets Kauffman
Journal of Physics A accepts “Insights from number theory into the critical Kauffman model with connectivity one” by F. Sheldon and T. Fink.
Events5 Jun
Living with AI
Journalists from MIT Technology Review discuss some of the risks and opportunities around AI and how the magazine will be covering them.
Papers31 May
Triangulating polytopes
Machine learning generates desirable triangulations of geometric objects that are required for Calabi-Yau compactification in string theory.
Events21 May
Organising genius
We are hosting a half-day symposium for scientists, innovators and policymakers to debate the framework within which genius flourishes.
Papers16 May
Non-reciprocal breather
Producing the first examples of breathing solitons in one-dimensional non-reciprocal media allows their propagation dynamics to be analysed.
Press14 May
Conjuring conjectures
In a Nature World View piece, our director Thomas Fink argues that mathematics is an ideal testing ground for AI-assisted discovery.
News7 May
Revolutionary innovation
At the Milken Institute Global Conference, our director Thomas Fink talks about the rewards and structures that incentivise discovery.
Papers4 May
Clifford invariants by ML
Coxeter transformations for root diagrams of simply-laced Lie groups are exhaustively computed then machine learned to very high accuracy.
Papers24 Apr
Clifford invariants by ML
Advances in Applied Clifford Algebras accepts “Machine Learning Clifford invariants of ADE Coxeter elements” by Yang-Hui He and coauthors.
Papers15 Apr
Counting free fermions
A link between the statistical properties of free fermions in one dimension when either half- or alternating- states are initially occupied.
Press15 Apr
Talking is thinking
Talking engages robust muscles of thought—not least when mathematicians take their problems to the blackboard, argues Thomas Hodgkinson.
Papers3 Apr
PCM in arbitrary fields
The first exact solution for the vacuum state of an asymptotically free QFT in a general external field found for the Principal Chiral Model.
Website28 Mar
Soft power
Our new soft power page catalogues all we do that doesn’t directly concern research and fundraising, such as our voice, website and building.
Papers28 Mar
A kicked polaron
Modelling the final state of a mobile impurity particle immersed in a one-dimensional quantum fluid after the abrupt application of a force.
Press20 Mar
Congratulations, Sasha
Congratulations to Oleksandr Gamayun and coauthors, whose paper in Nature extends research on solitons that began in a 19th century canal.
Papers20 Mar
Strange kinks
A new non-linear mechanical metamaterial can sustain topological solitons, robust solitary waves that could have exciting applications.
Press18 Mar
Creative convergence
The advertising guru Graham Fink waxes lyrical about equations and working with the London Institute on the How Do You Feel Today? podcast.
Press16 Mar
Let's talk about science
For its 225th birthday, our writer Thomas Hodgkinson hails the Royal Institution as proof of the vital importance of science communication.
Papers8 Mar
PCM in arbitrary fields
The journal Physical Review Letters accepts “Large-N principal chiral model in arbitrary external fields” by Evgeny Sobko and coauthors.
Press5 Mar
Elliptic curve mystery
Quanta reports on work by Yang-Hui He, who co-discovered unexpected patterns in a property related to the curves’ integer roots using AI.
Press29 Feb
Geometry’s dominion
Following his popular Discourse, Yang-Hui He joins writer Madeleine Hall to talk about the mysteries of geometry on the Ri Science podcast.
People26 Feb
Assistant to the director
Justine Crean is the assistant to the director at LIMS. She helps manage our scientists and staff and coordinate the Institute’s activities.
Jobs22 Feb
Chief graphic designer
The London Institute is recruiting a world-class graphic designer to visualise our mathematical discoveries and enhance our visual identity.
Press20 Feb
Security and freedom
A Bloomberg piece names our Arnold and Landau Fellowships as one of the few programmes offering help to Russian and Ukrainian scientists.
Papers13 Feb
Elliptic curve murmurations
Certain properties of the bivariate cubic equations used to prove Fermat’s last theorem exhibit flocking patterns, machine learning reveals.
Events12 Feb
A monstrous talent
In the inaugural Simon Norton Lecture, Prof. Peter Cameron celebrates the mathematician's achievements and talks about Norton algebras.
Website12 Feb
Content types
We revised our content types page, which describes the building blocks of our site, and added new building blocks, such as jobs and rituals.
Events9 Feb
London Gravity Meeting
Researchers working on all aspects of gravity, from gravitational waves to black holes, discuss the latest developments in their field.
Jobs9 Feb
A&L Junior Fellowships
The London Institute recruited Arman Sarikyan as an Landau Junior Fellow, one of a few we are recruiting this year. He starts on 1 July 2024.
Papers7 Feb
Computing Sasakians
Topological quantities for the Calabi-Yau link construction of G2 manifolds are computed and machine learnt with high performance scores.
Jobs2 Feb
Finance director
The London Institute is hiring a full-time finance director to help us take our financial health and capacity for growth to the next level.
Press30 Jan
AI at the Olympiad
Can AI do maths? In three separate publications, our scientists comment on the latest advances by the researchers at Google DeepMind.
People29 Jan
Chief science writer
Ananyo Bhattacharya is the chief science writer at LIMS. He writes about our research and our institute in the science and mainstream press.
Events26 Jan
St Scholastica’s Feast
We hold an annual formal dinner in our rooms, to mark the anniversary of our founding and affirm our belief in the importance of community.
Website25 Jan
Jobs
Our new Jobs page shows the jobs we are recruiting for and those we have filled, and introduces our standard template for job descriptions.
Papers22 Jan
Strange kinks
The journal Nature accepts the paper “Non-reciprocal topological solitons in active metamaterials” by Oleksandr Gamayun and coauthors.
Papers22 Jan
Peculiar betas tamed
Inconsistencies between two approaches to deriving beta functions in two-dimensional sigma models are resolved by adding heavy superpartners.
Jobs17 Jan
Assistant to the director
Working with Attic Recruitment, the London Institute recruited Justine Crean as the assistant to the director. She starts on 26 February.
Papers16 Jan
Computing Sasakians
Physics Letters B accepts “Machine learning Sasakian and G2 topology on contact Calabi-Yau 7-manifolds” by Yang-Hui He and coauthors.
Papers12 Jan
Spin-charge separation
A transformation for spin and charge degrees of freedom in one-dimensional lattice systems allows direct access to the dynamical correlations.
Press11 Jan
The art of blackboards
In a piece in Nautilus, our scientists talk about why they prefer the 1,000-year-old technology of blackboards to their digital equivalents.
Press9 Jan
A Birch for AI's back
In a Nature correspondence, our scientists argue that, by the terms of “the Birch test” no AI has yet made a genuine mathematical discovery.
Jobs1 Jan
A&L Junior Fellowships
The London Institute is hiring four outstanding young physicists and mathematicians from Russia, Ukraine and Belarus to join us in 2024.
Jobs1 Jan
LIMS Junior Fellowships
The London Institute is recruiting two outstanding physicists and mathematicians in the early stages of their career to join us in 2024.
Papers27 Dec 2023
Kauffman cracked
Surprisingly, the number of attractors in the critical Kauffman model with connectivity one grows exponentially with the size of the network.
Jobs20 Dec 2023
Chief science writer
After an extensive search, the London Institute recruited Ananyo Bhattacharya as the chief science writer. He starts on 29 January 2024.