Papers

Beyond classical barriers

Circuits of memristors, resistors with memory, can exhibit instabilities which allow classical tunnelling through potential energy barriers.

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.

Events

Maths and machines

Conrad Wolfram describes how two brothers harnessed machines to do mathematics, changing the way we think about computational thinking.

Events

Cheers, Brits and Yanks

Princeton and Caltech alumni celebrate Faraday’s birthday at the London Institute for Mathematical Sciences, inside the Royal Institution.

Events

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.

Events

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.

Events

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.

books

Calabi-Yau Landscape

This new monograph makes cutting-edge topics in mathematical physics, geometry and machine learning accessible to graduate students and beyond.

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.

press

Debating basic science

Papers

QFT & childrens' drawings

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

people

Welcome, Yang

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