A private academic research institute for the mathematical sciences

Our 2019 Science and Business Dinner focused on whether innovation can have a strategy and climate change as a collective action problem.

Business dinner

By tracking our papers’ tags in real time, our new research page gives a comprehensive overview of what we’re working on and what’s new.

<p>In the <i>Times Higher Education</i> magazine, the London Institute argues that “We need to challenge the university monopoly on research”.</p>


The London Institute has been awarded Independent Research Organization status, meaning it can now compete for £7bn of annual state funding.

The distribution of product complexity helps explain why some domains tend to exhibit faster innovation rates than others.

A simple solvable model of memristive networks suggests a link between the asymptotic states of memristors and the Ising model.

Sir John Beddington joins the Institute’s Board of Trustees, bringing experience in science policy, sustainability and scientific ventures.

Statistical physics harnesses deep links between maximum entropy and information theory to capture null and real-world network features.

Sir Roy Anderson joins the Institute’s Board of Trustees, bringing experience in governance, defence and mathematical bio-medicine.

You can help determine the most important research to advance. Any funds that you give for a project will be spent entirely on that project.

The mean dissipated work is proportional to a relative entropy between probability distributions over possible values of work.

The size and shape distributions of a material’s grains can be constructed from a 2D image and electron diffraction data.