- All updates
Eventscoming 16 Jun
The mortality equation
Thomas Fink unveils a mathematical model showing programmed aging cannot be favoured by natural selection, even in a shifting environment.
Press11 Jun
A Fields Medal for AI?
The Financial Times features Prof. Yang-Hui He in a piece highlighting the potential impact of future AI models on academic mathematicians.
Papers10 Jun
Optimal transfer
Physical Review Letters accepts the paper “Time-optimal transfer of the quantum state in long qubit arrays” by Andrei Stepanenko and coauthors.
Papers10 Jun
Reinforcing spectra
We show reinforcement learning can be used to check whether a certain class of quantum field theory has a finite spectrum of stable particles.
Press8 Jun
Rebel with a cause
Ben Delo talks to Thomas W. Hodgkinson about overcoming Asperger’s, smoking the competition, and why he likes the London Institute.
Press7 Jun
The most valuable cargo
As US science funding falters, Britain creating posts for top American researchers would be a win for science on both sides of the Atlantic.
Press6 Jun
Outsmarting AI
Prof. Yang-Hui He speaks to Scientific American about joining top mathematicians for a secret meeting to pose problems even AI can’t solve.
Events3 Jun
The mathematical piper
Martin Reeves explores the surprising harmony between the music and maths of the Great Highland bagpipe—complete with a live demonstration.
Events29 May
AI for discovery
Prof. Michael Douglas examines how advances in AI may soon lead to autonomous systems capable of making genuine mathematical discoveries.
Papers28 May
Reflexions on Mahler
Using Newton polynomials from reflexive polygons, we find that the Mahler measure and dessin d’enfants are in one-to-one correspondence.
Papers22 May
Fredholm meets Toeplitz
A new approach to the large distance asymptotic of the finite-temperature deformation is discussed for a sine-kernel Fredholm determinant.
Press16 May
The shape of physics
Prof. Yang-Hui He discusses geometry’s surprising impact on physics and their interplay through the ages on Quanta’s The Joy of Why podcast.
Events15 May
Early universe strings
Prof. Joseph Conlon outlines how string theory suggests new equations of state that may describe the physics of the very early universe.
Eventscoming 7 jul
Decoding life with AI
Mikhail Burtsev explains how artificial intelligence is helping to decipher genomes in the Royal Institution’s iconic lecture theatre.
Events9 May
Conformal to topological
Dr Matthew Buican details how a universal deformation takes 3d N=4 superconformal field theories to 3d topological quantum field theories.
Website8 May
Soft power revised
We have simplified our soft power page, which now comprises voice, website, building, meetings, recruitment and organisational intelligence.
Papers6 May
Fibonacci anyons
Nature Communications accepts the paper “Realizing string-net condensation: Fibonacci anyon braiding for universal...” by Juven Wang et al.
Events6 May
Geometry meets physics
Simon Telen presents his discovery of a new connection between polynomials inspired by particle physics and classical algebraic geometry.
Website6 May
Horizontal scrolling
We’ve added horizontal scrolling to our website, providing a cleaner way to visualise and navigate evolvable scripts, such as our rituals.
Papers2 May
Reinforcing spectra
The Journal Physics Letters B accepts the paper “BPS spectroscopy with reinforcement learning” by our Fellow Yang-Hui He and coauthors.
Papers30 Apr
Fredholm meets Toeplitz
Physica D: Nonlinear Phenomena accepts the paper “On finite-temperature Fredholm determinants” by Oleksandr Gamayun and coauthor.
Events29 Apr
Linearising groups
Antoine Pinardin presents a complete description of the linearisable subgroups of the plane Cremona group over the field of complex numbers.
Press28 Apr
Liking the like?
In The Times, our writer Thomas W. Hodgkinson reviews a compelling history of the “like” button, co-written by our Trustee Martin Reeves.
People28 Apr
New Trustee
Florian Schuster is a LIMS Trustee. An investor and entrepreneur, he advises on financial strategy, promotes our values and raises funding.
Papers16 Apr
On universal dynamics
Quantum many-body systems share patterns of dynamics that are exactly described by tridiagonal matrices based on continuous Hahn polynomials.
Papers11 Apr
Fibonacci anyons
With IBM Quantum, we braid non-abelian Fibonacci anyons in string-net condensates to realise fault-tolerant universal quantum computation.
Papers7 Apr
Learning integrability
We introduce an AI-based framework for finding solutions to the Yang-Baxter equation and discover hundreds of new integrable Hamiltonians.
Events7 Apr
Quantum symmetries
Dr Po-Shen Hsin introduces generalised symmetries in quantum systems and explores their roles in dynamics, constraints and applications.
People3 Apr
Ben Delo Fellow
Juven Wang is the Ben Delo Fellow at LIMS. Previously a Fellow, he took up the prestigious new post that was created by a gift from Ben Delo.
Press3 Apr
My passion for maths
In a time of government cuts to mathematics, the entrepreneur and philanthropist Ben Delo explains why he’s funding a new Fellowship at LIMS.
Papers2 Apr
Reinforcing spectra
We show reinforcement learning can be used to check whether a certain class of quantum field theory has a finite spectrum of stable particles.
Events28 Mar
London learns Lean
Mathematicians across London share their work on the formalisation of mathematics using the AI proof-assistant computer language Lean.
Events27 Mar
Groupoids do the twist
Prof. Konstantinos Zoubos will use Lie groupoids and their twists to uncover hidden symmetries of supersymmetric orbifold field theories.
Events27 Mar
AI for QFT
In two consecutive talks, Prof. Koji Hashimoto and Dr Akio Tomiya discuss applying machine learning to problems in quantum field theory.
Events26 Mar
Co-piloting proofs
Dr Bhavik Mehta from Imperial College London gives an overview of Lean, the proof-assistant computer language used to formalize mathematics.
Papers24 Mar
Irreducible group action
The Journal of Lie Theory accepts “Irreducible actions of the infinite-dimensional general linear group on...” by Oleksandr Kosyak and coauthor.
Papers5 Mar
Metaheuristic tilings
We use simulated annealing to efficiently construct all brane tilings that encode supersymmetric gauge theories and discover a new one.
Events5 Mar
Fermionic TQFTs
Dr Matthew Yu explains how fermionic topological quantum field theories can be given a categorical description in 3+1-dimensional spacetime.
Events3 Mar
QCD’s IR and UV limits
Dr Andrea Guerrieri explores QCD in two distinct regimes to illustrate its pivotal role in shaping our understanding of fundamental physics.
People1 Mar
LIMS Fellow
Evgeny Sobko is a Fellow at LIMS. Previously a Landau Fellow, he took up the new post after a global competition for our new Fellowship.
Papers28 Feb
Three-qubit shortcut
We achieve maximal-fidelity state transfer in the fastest possible time for a 3-qubit chain by applying the quantum variational method.
Papers28 Feb
Topological dark matter
Sterile neutrinos are replaced by topological order as dark matter candidates to counterbalance the Standard Model’s gravitational anomalies.
Papers27 Feb
Learning 3-manifolds
3-manifolds represented as isomorphism signatures of their triangulations and associated Pachner graphs are analysed with machine learning.
Papers26 Feb
Metaheuristic tilings
The Journal Physics Letters B accepts the paper titled “Metaheuristic generation of brane tilings” by our Fellow Yang-Hui He and coauthors.
Papers24 Feb
Continuous quivers
Continuous quivers enable exact Wilson loop calculation, reveal an emergent dimension, and raise tantalising questions on dual strings.
Papers17 Feb
Circuits with memory
The Journal of Physics: Complexity accepts “Network analysis of memristive device circuits: dynamics, ...” by Forest Sheldon and coauthors.
Events14 Feb
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.
Papers13 Feb
Learning 3-manifolds
The Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical accepts “Learning 3-manifold triangulations” by Yang-Hui He and coauthors.
Events12 Feb
A friendly monster
In the second Simon Norton Lecture, Prof. Leonard Soicher will convey the mystery and the magic of the monster group to a general audience.
Papers11 Feb
Common energies
The Journal of Combinatorial Theory, Series A accepts the paper titled “On common energies and sumsets” by our Arnold Fellow Ilya Shkredov.
Papers3 Feb
Continuous quivers
The journal Physical Review D accepts the research paper entitled “Continuous quiver gauge theories” by our Landau fellow Evgeny Sobko.
Papers23 Jan
Multitasking memory
The abilities and power of a type of transformer model with memory is greatly improved by learning several key tasks at once during training.
Papers21 Jan
Optimal transfer
We use the quantum brachistochrone method to design an optimal control strategy for the fastest quantum state transfer in long qubit chains.
Events20 Jan
Solving Navier-Stokes
Prof. Alexander Migdal presents an infinite dimensional manifold of exact solutions to the Navier-Stokes equations for decaying turbulence.
Events20 Jan
Black hole paradox
Dr Tarek Anous introduces the 50-year-old black hole information paradox and discusses some of the questions that have yet to be answered.
Papers16 Jan
Infinite parallelotope
We study the geometry of finite dimensional space as the dimension grows to infinity with an accent on the height of the parallelotope.
Papers15 Jan
Speaking DNA
A family of transformer-based DNA language models can interpret genomic sequences, opening new possibilities for complex biological research.
Events13 Jan
Automating maths
Dr Alex Davies of Google DeepMind leads an interactive discussion about AI-assisted mathematical discovery and automated theorem proving.
Papers7 Jan
Quadratic residues
The journal Finite Fields and Their Applications accepts “On the distribution of quadratic residues” by our Arnold fellow Ilya Shkredov.
Papers31 Dec 2024
A new leptogenesis
We propose that dark matter consists of topological order, so gapped anyon excitations decay to generate the Standard Model's lepton asymmetry.