Events
Primal spheres
The Ukrainian mathematician Prof. Maryna Viazovska, who won this year’s Fields Medal, joins us for a virtual interview and discussion.
Events
Evolution and Occam
The algorithmic nature of evolution implies an exponential bias towards simpler phenotypes, explaining an observed preference for symmetry.
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Welcome, Ilya
Prof. Ilya Shkredov is our inaugural Arnold Fellow. He works on additive combinatorics, number theory and combinatorial ergodic theory.
jobs
Postdoc in stat phys
The London Institute is hiring a two-year postdoc in the statistical physics of life, learning and emergence, supervised by Thomas Fink.
Papers
Bethe versus Gauge
The algebra of a toric quiver gauge theory recovers the Bethe ansatz, revealing the relation between gauge theories and integrable systems.
Papers
Flowers of immortality
The eigenvalues of the mortality equation fall into two classes—the flower and the stem—but only the stem eigenvalues control the dynamics.
News
Welcome, Alexander
Dr Alexander Ochirov is our inaugural Landau Research Fellow. He works on scattering amplitudes in quantum field theory and higher spins.
News
Landau Fellowships
We have created the Landau Research Fellowships: five three-year posts for early to mid-career physicists and mathematicians from Russia.
Events
Integrable QFTs
Prof. Alessandro Torrielli talks about integrable quantum field theories and the duality between the 2D Sine-Gordon and 2D Thirring models.
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Landau lives on
In the Thunderer column of The Times, Thomas Fink argues that Britain should open its doors to Russia’s top physicists and mathematicians.
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Boost for British science
In Nature, the London Institute argues that its five new Research Fellowships for Russian theorists will be a boost for British science.
Events
Young theorists connect
The London Institute and LonTI host weekly meetings in theoretical physics and mathematics for young researchers to get to know each other.
Events
AI mathematics
The London Institute hosts a day symposium on using AI to speed up mathematical discovery, followed by a panel discussion, drinks and dinner.
News
Autumn board meeting
At our autumn meeting, we discussed the launch of two new Fellowship programmes, our new rooms at the Royal Institution and upcoming events.
JOBS
Science writer
The London Institute is hiring a full-time science writer to lead our digital science communication and help improve and promote our papers.
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Welcome, Alana
We are pleased to welcome Alana Ker Mercer, who, as our new coordinator, will orchestrate the efficient running of the organisation.
News
Space for science
We’ve doubled our space at the Royal Institution. Our new rooms include Faraday's drawing room and the guest room for Christmas Lecturers.
Events
Cheers, Brits and Yanks
The London Institute welcomes MIT alumni to the Royal Institution to mark Prof. Peter Fisher’s departure as Head of Physics at MIT.
Papers
Algebra of crystals
Certain states in quantum field theories are described by the geometry and algebra of melting crystals via properties of partition functions.
Projects
Genetic computation
Understanding genetic computation using regulatory motifs, a new kind of structural and functional building block of gene regulatory networks.
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Seeing the big picture
Our new wide-format website shows users the big picture, while staying true to our simplicity, modularity and recursively divisible grids.
Press
Price of immortality
Like Orpheus in the Underworld, the London Institute is challenging mortality, says our writer Thomas Hodgkinson in The Sunday Telegraph.
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Yang’s Springer podcast
In an interview with Springer, Yang discusses his research moving between mathematics, physics, and AI, and his life, in between cultures.
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Immortality maths
Is there an advantage to ageing? Should we populate space? Is it fun to be a physicist? The London Institute talks to the Takeaway podcast.
Papers
Genetic computation
The structural and functional building blocks of gene regulatory networks correspond, which tell us how genetic computation is organised.
Website
Who we are, updated
Our new About section describes our story, research, communication, funding, home in the Royal Institution and organisational intelligence.
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History repeats itself
The Royal Institution supported scientists fleeing 1930s authoritarianism. Now, thanks to our Arnold Fellowships, history repeats itself.
Papers
AI classifies space-time
A neural network learns to classify different types of spacetime in general relativity according to their algebraic Petrov classification.
Events
The OS of life
Breakthroughs in cell programming are kicking off a biological analogue of the silicon revolution, allowing us to predictably engineer life.
Events
Accelerating innovation
The London Institute and the Ditchley Foundation host an afternoon discussion and drinks on the science of innovation and how to speed it up.
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From Russia with math
History suggests our new posts for physicists and mathematicians from Russia, Ukraine and Belarus will have an enduring impact on UK science.
News
Arnold Fellowships
In support of those affected by the war in Ukraine, we have created five new Fellowships for scientists from Russia, Ukraine and Belarus.
Papers
Learning Hilbert series
Neural networks find efficient ways to compute the Hilbert series, an important counting function in algebraic geometry and gauge theory.
Papers
The rules of life
The bipartite nature of regulatory networks means gene-gene logics are composed, which severely restricts which ones can show up in life.
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Designing web design
To mark our Webby nomination, we describe the design principles behind our website and how they evolved in tandem with the Institute itself.
News
Webby Award Nominee
Our website has been nominated for the best science website in the Webby Awards—hailed the “internet’s highest honor” by The New York Times.
News
Cell programming portal
The London Institute is creating a portal that connects bit.bio and theorists to accelerate research on the mathematics of cell programming.
News
The power of presence
One reason that we outperform other research centres is that everyone turns up for work, which makes us more creative, agile and aligned.
Papers
Line bundle connections
Neural networks find numerical solutions to Hermitian Yang-Mills equations, a difficult system of PDEs crucial to mathematics and physics.
Events
Quantifying AI
Peter Cochrane talks about how quantifying machine intelligence, distinct from biological intelligence, can quell the debate on AI’s future.
Papers
Calabi-Yau anomalies
Unsupervised machine-learning of the Hodge numbers of Calabi-Yau hypersurfaces detects new patterns with an unexpected linear dependence.
Events
Cell programming maths
The London Institute and bit.bio host a two-day international meeting to unravel the theory of cell programming at the Royal Institution.
News
Benchmarking research
To better benchmark research at the London Institute, we weight our published papers by the fraction of authors that are at the Institute.
Events
LonTI lecture series
During spring, the London Institute hosts weekly lectures in theoretical physics for young researchers who are interested in new fields.
Events
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.
Papers
Beyond classical barriers
Circuits of memristors, resistors with memory, can exhibit instabilities which allow classical tunnelling through potential energy barriers.
News
Stone on stone
In our updated landing page, we let our blackboards do the talking: each blackboard illustrates a key concept from one of our best papers.
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A year to remember
In 2021, we hired new talent, wrote pioneering papers and moved into Faraday's rooms at the Royal Institution. Here we celebrate the highs.
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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.
Events
Science of storytelling
Prof. Alison Woollard explores the science of storytelling and storytelling in science—a neglected virtue in modern scientific research.
News
Winter board meeting
At its winter meeting, our Board discusses our research output, endowment with Caltech, core funding and supporting the Royal Institution.
Events
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.
News
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.
NEWS
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.
PERSPECTIVES
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.
Papers
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.