Ever-shrinking spheres
Techniques from random sphere packing predict the dimension of the Apollonian gasket, a fractal made up of non-overlapping hyperspheres.
Events
The OS of life
Breakthroughs in cell programming are kicking off a biological analogue of the silicon revolution, allowing us to predictably engineer life.
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Accelerating innovation
The London Institute and the Ditchley Foundation host an afternoon discussion and drinks on the science of innovation and how to speed it up.
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From Russia with math
History suggests our new posts for physicists and mathematicians from Russia, Ukraine and Belarus will have an enduring impact on UK science.
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Arnold Fellowships
In support of those affected by the war in Ukraine, we have created five new Fellowships for scientists from Russia, Ukraine and Belarus.
Papers
Learning Hilbert series
Neural networks find efficient ways to compute the Hilbert series, an important counting function in algebraic geometry and gauge theory.
Papers
The rules of life
The bipartite nature of regulatory networks means gene-gene logics are composed, which severely restricts which ones can show up in life.
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Designing web design
To mark our Webby nomination, we describe the design principles behind our website and how they evolved in tandem with the Institute itself.
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Webby Award Nominee
Our website has been nominated for the best science website in the Webby Awards—hailed the “internet’s highest honor” by The New York Times.
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Cell programming portal
The London Institute is creating a portal that connects bit.bio and theorists to accelerate research on the mathematics of cell programming.
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The power of presence
One reason that we outperform other research centres is that everyone turns up for work, which makes us more creative, agile and aligned.
Papers
Line bundle connections
Neural networks find numerical solutions to Hermitian Yang-Mills equations, a difficult system of PDEs crucial to mathematics and physics.
Events
Quantifying AI
Peter Cochrane talks about how quantifying machine intelligence, distinct from biological intelligence, can quell the debate on AI’s future.
Papers
Calabi-Yau anomalies
Unsupervised machine-learning of the Hodge numbers of Calabi-Yau hypersurfaces detects new patterns with an unexpected linear dependence.
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Cell programming maths
The London Institute and bit.bio host a two-day international meeting to unravel the theory of cell programming at the Royal Institution.
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Benchmarking research
To better benchmark research at the London Institute, we weight our published papers by the fraction of authors that are at the Institute.
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LonTI lecture series
During spring, the London Institute hosts weekly lectures in theoretical physics for young researchers who are interested in new fields.
Events
Theory of Everything
Professor Yang-Hui He tells the captivating story of the holy grail of science: the mathematical quest for a unifying theory of everything.
Papers
Beyond classical barriers
Circuits of memristors, resistors with memory, can exhibit instabilities which allow classical tunnelling through potential energy barriers.
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Stone on stone
In our updated landing page, we let our blackboards do the talking: each blackboard illustrates a key concept from one of our best papers.
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A year to remember
In 2021, we hired new talent, wrote pioneering papers and moved into Faraday's rooms at the Royal Institution. Here we celebrate the highs.
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What the Dickens?
Our writer Thomas W. Hodgkinson argues that Charles Dickens named his novel David Copperfield in honour of the Royal Institution.
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Unifying mathematics
Our new fifth research theme contains projects that explore how different branches of mathematics are intertwined, and how to unify them.
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12 Days of Christmas
The Institute’s Christmas card includes one side to the Möbius strip, five exceptional Lie groups and eight basis vectors of the octonians.
Events
Talking to Penrose
Sir Roger Penrose talks about physics, philosophy and art in a conversation with Thomas Fink and Yang-Hui He in the Faraday lecture theatre.