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  • Finance Director

    People23 Sep

    Finance Director

    Sanjeeb Seal is the Finance Director at LIMS, where he manages all finance-related matters as well as working on our strategy and growth.

  • Spiky backpropagation

    Papers11 Sep

    Spiky backpropagation

    Nature Communications accepts “The backpropagation algorithm implemented on spiking neuromorphic hardware” by Forrest Sheldon and coauthors.

  • From physics into maths

    Press4 Sep

    From physics into maths

    Why are physical insights from the real world proving so useful for solving abstruse problems in pure mathematics, Ananyo Bhattacharya asks.

  • Trustee

    Jobs1 Sep

    Trustee

    The London Institute is recruiting a new trustee to raise money, protect the Institute’s values, and enhance its profile on the global stage.

  • Finance Director

    Jobs1 Sep

    Finance Director

    Working with Walker Hamill Recruitment, the London Institute recruited Sanjeeb Seal as the finance director. He starts on 23 September 2024.

  • Press29 Aug

    Spreading the word

    In the Harvard Business Review, our trustee Martin Reeves and co-authors explain how ‘evolvable scripts’ greatly improve knowledge-sharing.

  • News16 Aug

    Welcome, Talulah

    As a London Institute Trustee, the actress, author and tech entrepreneur Talulah Riley will support our mission to accelerate discovery.

  • Press15 Aug

    Life of Riley

    The Times’ science editor interviews our new Trustee, Talulah Riley, about her love of physics and her work with the London Institute.

  • Events8 Aug

    DANGER 2024

    The London Institute hosts a two-day workshop for theorists to discuss and explore the links between data science, AI and pure mathematics.

  • Papers5 Aug

    On AI-driven discovery

    A review of progress in the nascent field of AI-assisted discovery in mathematics and theoretical physics identifies three main approaches.

  • Papers4 Aug

    Elliptical murmurations

    Certain properties of the bivariate cubic equations used to prove Fermat’s last theorem exhibit flocking patterns, machine learning reveals.

  • Jobs1 Aug

    Governor

    The London Institute is recruiting a new governor to raise money, grow the Institute and support our start-ups that develop our discoveries.

  • Events31 Jul

    Stable pairs

    In this seminar, Fields Medalist Caucher Birkar talks about sheaf stable pairs in algebraic geometry, especially for Fano varieties.

  • People26 Jul

    Trustee

    Talulah Riley is a LIMS Trustee. An actress, author and tech entrepreneur, she helps us spread the gospel of curiosity driven science.

  • Papers22 Jul

    Peculiar betas tamed

    Inconsistencies between two approaches to deriving beta functions in two-dimensional sigma models are resolved by adding heavy superpartners.

  • 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 perspective “AI-driven research in pure mathematics and theoretical physics” by Yang-Hui He.

  • People1 Jul

    Landau Junior Fellow

    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

    A review of progress in the nascent field of AI-assisted discovery in mathematics and theoretical physics identifies three main approaches.

  • Papers19 Jun

    Slight degenerations

    The tools used to study polynomial equations with indeterminate coefficients are extended to some important cases with interrelated ones.

  • 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 the paper “Insights from number theory into the critical Kauffman model…” by Forrest Sheldon and Thomas 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.

  • Papers12 Apr

    Spiking backpropagation

    The training algorithm for digital neural networks is adapted and implemented entirely on an experimental chip inspired by brain physiology.

  • 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, Peter Cameron celebrates the mathematician’s achievements, including his eponymous 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.