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Events25 Nov
Van der Waerden proven
In this seminar, Fields Medalist Manjul Bhargava proves the van der Waerden conjecture on counting polynomials with small Galois groups.
Events25 Nov
Meet Manjul Bhargava
We hail India’s elite mathematical talent—and our Ramanujan Junior Fellowships scheme to nurture it—with Fields Medalist Manjul Bhargava.
Events24 Nov
Homotopy & categories
In two lectures, Dmitry Kaledin explores progress towards a non-commutative Hodge theory and a theory of homotopically enhanced categories.
Events21 Nov
Tensor–matrix gravity
Daniel Jafferis outlines a tensor–matrix model constrained by crossing, its proposed gravity dual and a BCFT version encoding amplitude data.
Events20 Nov
Launching Lovelace labs
The Tony Blair Institute unveils its vision for a new kind of research institution to policymakers and the press at the London Institute.
Eventscoming 12 dec
Meet Edward Frenkel
Edward Frenkel charts his path from Moscow to Berkeley and the quest for a unified theory of maths with the London Institute and its guests.
Eventscoming 11 dec
Feynman’s last wish
Edward Frenkel illuminates Feynman’s final quest—to learn the Bethe Ansatz—with fresh insights from the geometric Langlands correspondence.
Eventscoming 27 Nov
The magic of DAU
Dmitry Kaledin reflects on the DAU project—an audacious theatrical experiment probing science and belief in the Soviet Union and beyond.
EventsComing 26 Nov
Algebraic exchange
The London Institute hosts a workshop on algebraic geometry for PhD students to share their research results and initiate collaborations.
People17 Nov
New governor
As well as a LIMS governor, Pinar Emirdağ is an entrepreneur who works in market structure, electronic trading and digital capital markets.
People15 Nov
New governor
As well as a LIMS governor, Tom Walton Pocock founded Geometry, an investment firm backing companies building at the frontiers of computing.
Events10 Nov
Geometry of amplitudes
Ran Tessler reveals how the amplituhedron connects quantum field scattering amplitudes to cluster algebras through geometry and symmetry.
Events7 Nov
Defects and duality
Brandon Rayhaun examines the long-distance physics of defects in QFTs through anomalies and the irreversibility of renormalisation flow.
Events7 Nov
Why AI works
Our director Thomas Fink explains why the repeated application of simple logics induces a bias towards simplicity, with applications to AI.
Events6 Nov
How innovation works
In the Royal Institution’s lecture theatre, Martin Reeves reveals the startling truth about how innovation happens in science and technology.
Events6 Nov
The double copy
Chris White traces the origins and impact of a remarkable new correspondence linking non-abelian gauge theories with general relativity.
People3 Nov
Congratulations, Arman
For his work on the birational geometry of Mori fibre spaces, Arman Sarikyan receives the Edinburgh Mathematical Society’s PhD thesis prize.
Papers31 Oct
Futaki for reflexives
We compute Futaki invariants for gauge theories from D3-branes that probe toric Calabi-Yau singularities arising from reflexive polytopes.
Events20 Oct
Meet Stephen Wolfram
Theoretical physicist and innovator Stephen Wolfram discusses the big questions facing science with the London Institute and its guests.
Events20 Oct
Random matrices
Fedor Levkovich-Maslyuk traces how matrix models reveal striking connections between quantum gravity, string theory and integrability.
Events17 Oct
Tiling and Tonnetze
Konstanze Rietsch explores Euler’s Tonnetz through the lens of modern geometry, revealing new links between music, symmetry and harmony.
Events17 Oct
Strings from graphs
Edward Mazenc shows how Grothendieck’s dessins d’enfants reveal a deep link between gauge theory, string theory and the AdS/CFT duality.
Events17 Oct
Gapping chiral fermions
Rishi Mouland demonstrates how generalised notions of symmetry can be used in novel ways to probe strongly coupled quantum field theories.
Press16 Oct
Bubble trouble
In his Financial Times column on the AI boom, John Thornhill quotes our live interview with physicist and entrepreneur Stephen Wolfram.
Events16 Oct
Defects and scattering
Christian Copetti from Oxford University shows how generalised symmetries guide quantum systems, shaping boundary conditions and defects.
Papers13 Oct
Futaki for reflexives
The Journal of Mathematical Physics accepts the paper “Futaki invariants and reflexive polygons” by our fellow Yang-Hui He and coauthors.
Events13 Oct
Meet Stephen Wolfram
Theoretical physicist and innovator Stephen Wolfram discusses the big questions facing science with the London Institute and its guests.
Press12 Oct
A bridge with India
Nature India’s editor hails our Ramanujan Junior Researchers scheme, inspired by the friendship between Srinivasa Ramanujan and G.H. Hardy.
Press12 Oct
Murmuration of assent
In a letter in The Sunday Times, our fellow Yang-Hui He affirms that, with the proper support, AI promises to reshape discovery itself.
News9 Oct
Ramanujan Researchers
The London Institute is partnering with the Indian government to create a scheme for young theorists and mathematicians to work with us.
People9 Oct
New governor
As well as a LIMS governor, Amit Jain is a co-founder of Signal Capital Partners, a $5bn private asset management firm, based in London.
People8 Oct
New governor
As well as a LIMS governor, Ammad Ahmad is a founding partner at Atheneum, a market insights platform that has offices worldwide.
People7 Oct
New governor
As well as a LIMS governor, Thore Graepel is a physicist, computer scientist and Distinguished Researcher in AGI Futures at Google DeepMind.
Events7 Oct
Maths in the age of AI
In the Royal Institution’s lecture theatre, Prof. Yang-Hui He reflects on how growing AI-human collaboration is shaping the future of maths.
Events7 Oct
AI’s history of hype
Thomas Haigh traces the rise of AI as an overhyped brand, from failed ideas to today’s powerful technologies and their unsettling impact.
People6 Oct
New trustee
As well as a LIMS trustee, Ben Delo is an entrepreneur and philanthropist whose causes include neurodiversity and mathematical discovery.
Events3 Oct
Integrable statistics
Alessandro Torrielli examines spin, statistics and strange particle behaviour in 1+1-dimensional integrable models and AdS_3 string theory.
Events3 Oct
Surveying scattering
Prof. Mark Gross explores how scattering diagrams are a powerful tool for capturing wall-crossing data in many diverse mathematical contexts.
Events2 Oct
Mechanics in a box
Prof. Darryl Holm explores how geometric mechanics links symmetry-breaking to dynamics, revealing patterns in nature’s complex systems.
Press29 Sep
Faraday’s masterclass
In The Oldie, our writer Thomas Hodgkinson celebrates the Royal Institution’s Friday Evening Discourses, the world’s oldest science talks.
Events29 Sep
How innovation works
In the Royal Institution’s lecture theatre, Martin Reeves reveals the startling truth about how innovation happens in science and technology.
Events25 Sep
Gravity from entropy
Ginestra Bianconi illustrates her novel approach to quantum gravity, which is grounded in statistical mechanics and information theory.
Events24 Sep
Entanglement in time
Alexey Milekhin explores how the Sachdev–Ye–Kitaev model and “entanglement in time” can reveal new ways of understanding quantum dynamics.
Events23 Sep
Decoding life with AI
Mikhail Burtsev explains how artificial intelligence is helping to decipher genomes in the Royal Institution’s iconic lecture theatre.
Press18 Sep
Friday night live
In the Idler, our writer Thomas Hodgkinson recounts how Michael Faraday inaugurated a 200-year-old masterclass in public speaking.
Events15 Sep
Maths in the age of AI
In the Royal Institution’s lecture theatre, Prof. Yang-Hui He reflects on how growing AI-human collaboration is shaping the future of maths.
Papers28 Aug
C, P and T in fractions
Advances in Theoretical and Mathematical Physics accepts the paper “C-R-T Fractionalisation, Fermions, and Mod...” by Juven Wang et al.
Papers25 Aug
Braid representations
We demonstrate that the Lawrence–Krammer representation arises as a q-deformation of the symmetric square of the Burau representation.
Papers25 Aug
Limits of attention
We demonstrate that transformer attention can only discriminate well at shorter context lengths, losing clarity as input length increases.
Papers22 Aug
Boosting AI reasoning
By increasing the effective depth of neural networks, we improve their sequential reasoning abilities in tasks involving cellular automata.
Papers19 Aug
Nonreciprocal breather
Producing the first examples of breathing solitons in one-dimensional non-reciprocal media allows their propagation dynamics to be analysed.
People17 Aug
Cognia Visitors
We are recruiting visitors to spend time at the London Institute and collaborate on theoretical aspects of life, learning and emergence.
People15 Aug
Mendeleev Visitors
We are funding Russian theorists to visit us at the London Institute to collaborate and to strengthen ties with their home institutions.
Papers13 Aug
Braid representations
Journal Linear Algebra and its Applications accepts the paper “The Lawrence-Krammer representation is a quantization...” by Oleksandr Kosyak.
Jobs1 Aug
Cognia Junior Fellows
The London Institute is hiring theorists to join us as Junior Fellows and work on theoretical aspects of life, learning and emergence.
Events1 Aug
Music to our ears
The Ukrainian concert pianist Sasha Grynyuk has generously lent us a Steinway grand piano, which was once played by Kissin and Brendel.
Press1 Aug
Lionesses lessons
The Lionesses point the way for the professionalisation of science, which we’re now pioneering with support from Open Philanthropy.
Papers25 Jul
On universal dynamics
Quantum many-body systems share patterns of dynamics that are exactly described by tridiagonal matrices based on continuous Hahn polynomials.
Papers25 Jul
Irreducible group action
We construct the unitary representation of an infinite-dimensional general linear group acting on a space and establish its irreducibility.
Events24 Jul
CFT tensor network
Prof. Zhengcheng Gu describes the construction of a fixed-point tensor network and its generalised symmetries in conformal field theory.