Exactly solvable random graphs
An explicit analytical solution reproduces the main features of random graph ensembles with many short cycles under strict degree constraints.
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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.
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Science of storytelling
Prof. Alison Woollard explores the science of storytelling and storytelling in science—a neglected virtue in modern scientific research.
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Winter board meeting
At its winter meeting, our Board discusses our research output, endowment with Caltech, core funding and supporting the Royal Institution.
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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.
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Garden of challenges
In a video for The Garden, Yang-Hui He describes the top 23 mathematical challenges of our time, including a possible theory of everything.
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Inaugural Junior Fellow
Dr Forrest Sheldon is the London Institute’s inaugural Junior Fellow, setting a high standard for our new programme of Junior Fellows.
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Measure what matters
We benchmark the London Institute by the quality of our published research papers, which we are increasing each year by a factor of √2.
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Our guide to journals
Our updated handbook of physics, mathematics and general science journals is a unique guide to choosing the right home for your paper.
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Why we must boldly go
The human impulse to look beyond the horizon, “to boldly go where no man has gone before”, leads us to the most transformative discoveries.
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Going, going, gone
A solution to the information paradox uses standard quantum field theory to show that black holes can evaporate without violating the laws of physics.
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Quick quantum neural nets
The notion of quantum superposition speeds up the training process for binary neural networks and guarantees that their parameters are optimal.
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Learning the universe
Using machine learning methods to search the vast space of Calabi-Yau manifolds for ones that predict the Standard Model from string theory.
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Cheers, Brits and Yanks
Princeton and Caltech alumni celebrate Faraday’s birthday at the London Institute for Mathematical Sciences, inside the Royal Institution.
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In search of serendipity
The London Institute is hosting a lunch at the Royal Institution to promote serendipity between leaders in business, finance and physics.
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Tumour infiltration
A delicate interplay between the proteins that white blood cells express and the molecules on the surface of tumour cells determines cancer prognoses.
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Beyond classical barriers
Circuits of memristors, resistors with memory, can exhibit instabilities which allow classical tunnelling through potential energy barriers.
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Maths and machines
Conrad Wolfram describes how two brothers harnessed machines to do mathematics, changing the way we think about computational thinking.
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Space-time singularities
Sir Roger Penrose talks about space-time singularities and cyclic geometry at the Nankai Symposium, after an introduction by Yang-Hui He.
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Autumn board meeting
At its autumn meeting, our Board discusses our application for core funding, a new Fellow, upcoming events and planning our first endowment.
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Calabi-Yau Landscape
This new monograph makes cutting-edge topics in mathematical physics, geometry and machine learning accessible to graduate students and beyond.
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Mathematical Dialogues
Yang-Hui He co-organises the Nankai Symposium on dialogues between mathematics and physics, with the plenary talk by Sir Roger Penrose.