News26 Jan
Conway Prize
The London Institute is establishing an annual prize of £500 for the best short paper in theoretical research written by one of its members.
upcoming event on31 JAN
Design meets maths
Designers and theorists talk about the intersection of design and mathematics in visualisation, architecture, digital design and industry.
design18 Jan
Writing style guide
Part of our design guide, our writing style guide is a collection of rules for writing and typesetting our website and research papers.
upcoming event on24 FEB
The geometry revolution
At the Royal Institution's Friday Evening Discourse, Prof. Yang-Hui He recounts the creation of modern physics at the hands of geometry.
upcoming event on8 FEB
Re-imagining imagination
Our Trustee Martin Reeves explores imagination at its core, rethinking previous romantic notions, asking if we can harness it systematically.
Papers15 Dec
Memristive reservoirs
Balancing memory from linear components with nonlinearities from memristors optimises the computational capacity of electronic reservoirs.
Events15 Dec
Hochschild and spectral
The London Institute hosts guest speaker Dr Frank Neumann and the London Algebra Colloquium for their final seminar of 2022.
Papers14 Dec
Mahler meets physics
Mahler measure from number theory is used for the first time in physics, yielding “Mahler flow” which extrapolates different phases in QFT.
News13 Dec
Welcome, Madeleine
As our new science writer, Madeleine Hall will help us to communicate our discoveries, share our joy in insight and promote our mission.
perspectives12 Dec
The beautiful game
The beautiful game of mathematics, accelerating discovery by seeing patterns among the patterns, deserves a Nobel prize all of its own.
Events22 Nov
Primal spheres
The Ukrainian mathematician Prof. Maryna Viazovska, who won this year’s Fields Medal, joins us for a virtual interview and discussion.
Events11 Nov
Evolution and Occam
The algorithmic nature of evolution implies an exponential bias towards simpler phenotypes, explaining an observed preference for symmetry.
News07 Nov
Welcome, Ilya
Prof. Ilya Shkredov is our inaugural Arnold Fellow. He works on additive combinatorics, number theory and combinatorial ergodic theory.
jobs25 Oct
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.
Papers24 Oct
Bethe versus Gauge
The algebra of a toric quiver gauge theory recovers the Bethe ansatz, revealing the relation between gauge theories and integrable systems.
Papers24 Oct
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.
News18 Oct
Welcome, Alexander
Dr Alexander Ochirov is our inaugural Landau Research Fellow. He works on scattering amplitudes in quantum field theory and higher spins.
News17 Oct
Landau Fellowships
We have created the Landau Research Fellowships: five three-year posts for early to mid-career physicists and mathematicians from Russia.
Events13 Oct
Integrable QFTs
Prof. Alessandro Torrielli talks about integrable quantum field theories and the duality between the 2D Sine-Gordon and 2D Thirring models.
perspectives12 Oct
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.
News06 Oct
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.
Events05 Oct
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.
Events23 Sep
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.
News20 Sep
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.
JOBS09 Sep
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.
PEOPLE06 Sep
Welcome, Alana
We are pleased to welcome Alana Ker Mercer, who, as our new coordinator, will orchestrate the efficient running of the organisation.
News05 Sep
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.
Events31 Aug
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.
Papers22 Aug
Algebra of crystals
Certain states in quantum field theories are described by the geometry and algebra of melting crystals via properties of partition functions.
Projects15 Aug
Genetic computation
Understanding genetic computation using regulatory motifs, a new kind of structural and functional building block of gene regulatory networks.
website10 Aug
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.
Press09 Aug
Price of immortality
Like Orpheus in the Underworld, the London Institute is challenging mortality, says our writer Thomas Hodgkinson in The Sunday Telegraph.
press05 Aug
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.
press27 Jul
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.
Papers26 Jul
Genetic computation
The structural and functional building blocks of gene regulatory networks correspond, which tell us how genetic computation is organised.
Website06 Jul
Who we are, updated
Our new About section describes our story, research, communication, funding, home in the Royal Institution and organisational intelligence.
perspectives04 Jul
History repeats itself
The Royal Institution supported scientists fleeing 1930s authoritarianism. Now, thanks to our Arnold Fellowships, history repeats itself.
Papers01 Jul
AI classifies space-time
A neural network learns to classify different types of spacetime in general relativity according to their algebraic Petrov classification.
Events23 Jun
The OS of life
Breakthroughs in cell programming are kicking off a biological analogue of the silicon revolution, allowing us to predictably engineer life.
Events16 Jun
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.
perspectives16 May
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.
News13 May
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.
Papers28 Apr
Learning Hilbert series
Neural networks find efficient ways to compute the Hilbert series, an important counting function in algebraic geometry and gauge theory.
Papers28 Apr
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.
perspectives21 Apr
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.
News11 Apr
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.
News11 Apr
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.
News08 Apr
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.
Papers28 Mar
Line bundle connections
Neural networks find numerical solutions to Hermitian Yang-Mills equations, a difficult system of PDEs crucial to mathematics and physics.
Events22 Mar
Quantifying AI
Peter Cochrane talks about how quantifying machine intelligence, distinct from biological intelligence, can quell the debate on AI’s future.
Papers16 Mar
Calabi-Yau anomalies
Unsupervised machine-learning of the Hodge numbers of Calabi-Yau hypersurfaces detects new patterns with an unexpected linear dependence.
Events09 Mar
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.
News09 Mar
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.
Events08 Mar
LonTI lecture series
During spring, the London Institute hosts weekly lectures in theoretical physics for young researchers who are interested in new fields.
Events25 Feb
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.
Papers21 Feb
Beyond classical barriers
Circuits of memristors, resistors with memory, can exhibit instabilities which allow classical tunnelling through potential energy barriers.
News02 Feb
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.
website27 Jan
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.
press17 Jan
What the Dickens?
Our writer Thomas W. Hodgkinson argues that Charles Dickens named his novel David Copperfield in honour of the Royal Institution.
WEBSITE17 Jan
Unifying mathematics
Our new fifth research theme contains projects that explore how different branches of mathematics are intertwined, and how to unify them.