Using mathematicsto understandthe world

PEOPLE
Welcome, Sarah
Welcome to our new director of development Sarah Myers Cornaby. She’ll be leading our fundraising and strategy for growing the Institute.
PAPERS
True scale-free networks
Naturally occurring networks have an underlying scale-free structure that is often clouded by finite-size effects in the sample data.
Events
Superstrings and AI
Yang Hui talks about how string phenomenology has led from differential geometry to computational geometry and now to machine learning.
PRESS
A singular mind
In an interview with Thomas Fink, Sir Roger Penrose talks about his Nobel Prize, the beauty of physics—and why AI is nothing to fear.
Papers
The physics of finance
Complex network theory unlocks systematic understanding of financial stability and climate finance in pursuit of a more sustainable society.
PRESS
OS of life
Bit.Bio CEO Mark Kotter tells how the cell coding company is joining forces with the London Institute to find the operating system of life.
PRESS
The value of theory
From Newton to Penrose, Britain has always excelled at theoretical science — so why doesn't the government do more to support it?
Papers
Loopy random graphs
The generation of large graphs with a controllable number of short loops paves the way for building more realistic random networks.
Where we publish
Who's funding us
Boston Consulting Group
BCG Henderson Institute
BitBio
Cancer Research UK
Centre for Defence Enterprise
Defence Advanced Research Projects Agency
Defence Threat Reduction Agency
European Innovation Council
Framework Programme 7
Garfield Weston Foundation
Horizon 2020
Invenia Labs
LIMS Ventures
Medical Research Council
Office of Naval Research
Porter Foundation
Rose Foundation
Edward Harvist Trust
European Commission Migration and Home Affairs