Events

Mathematical Dialogues

Yang-Hui He co-organises the Nankai Symposium on dialogues between mathematics and physics, with the plenary talk by Sir Roger Penrose.

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Debating basic science

Papers

QFT and kids’ drawings

Groethendieck's “children’s drawings”, a type of bipartite graph, link number theory, geometry, and the physics of conformal field theory.

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Welcome, Yang

Welcome to our new Fellow, Yang-Hui He, who does research in algebraic geometry, string theory, quantum field theory and machine learning.

Website

Keeping the lights on

Now that our website uses progressive web application technology, it's resilient to drops in connection and it continues to work offline.

Events

Greek week

What is the limit to human achievement? To find out, we sent a team to a Greek island for a week to immerse themselves in a single problem.

Papers

Cancer and coronavirus

Cancer patients who contract and recover from coronavirus-2 exhibit long-term immune system effects, depending on the type of cancer.

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Challenging Times

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23 challenges

To mark the launch of ARIA, which tackles the toughest problems, we made a list of the 23 most important mathematical challenges of our time.

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The physics of finance

Statistical physics contributes to new models and metrics for the study of financial network structure, dynamics, stability and instability.

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Back to work

As we emerge from the biggest remote-working experiment in history, we reveal the fundamental reason why office work will win.

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Summer board meeting

At its summer meeting, our board meets our new finance director and discusses fundraising, core funding, research output and 23 challenges.