The Boston Consulting Group applies insights from a variety of academic disciplines to the strategic challenges facing business and society.

Boston  Consulting Group

The Centre for Defence Enterprise funds innovative research that could lead to a capability advantage for armed forces and national security.

Centre for  Defence Enterprise

The U.S. Defence Advanced Research Projects Agency makes pivotal investments in breakthrough technologies for national security.

Defence Advanced  Research Projects Agency

The U.S. Defence Threat Reduction Agency funds research to prepare for and combat weapons of mass destruction and improvised threats.

Defence Threat  Reduction Agency

The European Innovation Council funds world-class scientists and innovators to develop and accelerate disruptive technology businesses.

European  Innovation Council

Future and Emerging Technologies, part of the EU science agency FP7, funds research on high-risk, high-reward technologies of the future.

FP7 Future and  Emerging Technologies

Information and Communication Technologies, part of the EU science agency FP7, funds research on devices and applications that rely on information.

FP7 Information and Communication Technologies

The Garfield Weston Foundation supports a range of charities across the UK and the restoration and redevelopment of their buildings.

Garfield Weston  Foundation

Future and Emerging Technologies, part of the EU science agency H2020, funds research on high-risk, high-reward technologies of the future.

Horizon 2020 Future, Emerging Technologies

Invenia is a company of scientists and engineers that uses machine learning to optimize complex decision making and reduce inefficiencies.

Invenia Labs

LIMS Ventures is the start-up incubator of the London Institute which accelerates projects with potential for widespread commercialization.

LIMS Ventures

The U.S. Office of Naval Research supports basic research and technology for future naval power and the preservation of national security.

Office of  Naval Research

The Pilgrim Trust supports the preservation of architecturally important buildings and historically significant artifacts and documents.

Pilgrim Trust

The Porter Foundation supports projects in education, the environment, culture, health and welfare that encourage excellence and innovation.

Porter Foundation

The Rose Foundation provides financial assistance to charities undertaking building restoration and development in and around London.

Rose Foundation

The Edward Harvist Trust supports organisations that improve the quality of life for local people in Westminster and other London boroughs.

Edward Harvist Trust

The European Commission Migration and Home Affairs supports research to ensure the security of the EU and cooperation with non-EU countries.

European Commission  Migration and Home Affairs

The London Institute for Mathematical Sciences

We’ve captured the inside and outside of our building in a series of photographs which shows off the extensive renovation of the Institute.

Building in pictures

An overview of our past and present seminars, symposia, business dinners and other events can be found in our new Events page.

Events

Our research projects range from AI to materials to finance to cosmology. An overview of all of them is shown in our new Projects page.

Projects

At our 3rd Science of Business dinner we discuss innovation, technological change and new ways to combat climate change.

Business dinner

By tracking the tags of our research papers in real time, we provide a comprehensive overview of what we are working on and what’s new.

Research interests

In the Times Higher Education magazine, the London Institute argues that “We need to challenge the university monopoly on research”.

LIMS in THE

The London Institute has been awarded Independent Research Organization status and can now compete for £7bn of annual government funding.

Becoming an IRO

The distribution of product complexity helps explain why some technology sectors tend to exhibit faster innovation rates than others.

Faster innovation

A simple solvable model of memristive networks suggests an analogy between the asymptotic states of memristors and the Ising model.

Memristive networks

Sir John Beddington joins the Institute’s board of trustees, bringing experience in sustainability, science policy and scientific ventures.

New Trustee

Statistical physics harnesses links between maximum entropy and information theory to capture null model and real-world network features.

Network physics

Sir Roy Anderson joins the Institute’s board of trustees, bringing experience in defence, governance and mathematical bio-medicine.

You can help determine the most important research to advance. Any funds that you give for a project will be spent entirely on that project.

Kickscience

The mean dissipated work is proportional to a relative entropy between probability distributions over all possible values of work.

One-shot statistics

The distributions of size and shape of a material’s grains can be constructed from a 2D slice of the material and electron diffraction data.

Materials inference

Homer’s Iliad and Wikipedia. One, the first great work in Western literature; the other, the world’s most-used work of reference. The link? Both are the products of collective creativity. The Iliad was created over generations by a series of oral poets, each of whom improved on the previous version, deleting some passages and adding others. Meanwhile, Wikipedia relies on contributions from the public, on the same basis of deleting and inserting. Shared knowledge curation efforts and open source software suggest that explicit cooperation may not be necessary for integrating multiple collaborators in their efforts to achieve a complex goal.
In this project we ask whether anonymous collaboration with constrained freedom can give rise to the spontaneous display of creativity within a non-cooperating group, greater than any one person could achieve alone. By studying simple creativity tasks and the dynamics of games, we devise a theoretical model for collective creativity and extrapolate key design principles for platforms capable of achieving it.
Collective creativity could profoundly extend the limits of human creativity in areas such as scientific collaboration, coding, creative writing and illustration.

Understanding collective creativity: anonymous collaboration under constrained freedom that transcends the creativity of the individual.