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  • Paying for science

    Papers21 Oct

    Paying for science

    An analysis of UKRI grant funding gives a strategy for maximising unrestricted funds, thereby helping research centres cover their costs.

  • Science needs Russians

    Press11 Oct

    Science needs Russians

    Like chess, theoretical research is an international game played in the language of patterns. Its intrinsic value transcends politics.

  • Khodorkovsky Postdocs

    Jobs1 Oct

    Khodorkovsky Postdocs

    The London Institute is hiring Russian postdocs in physics and mathematics to join us, starting between 1 October 2024 and 1 October 2025.

  • Arnold & Landau Fellows

    Jobs1 Oct

    Arnold & Landau Fellows

    The London Institute is hiring Russian and Ukrainian theorists to join us as fellows, starting between 1 October 2024 and 1 October 2025.

  • Root-Kerr from higher-spin

    Papers27 Sep

    Root-Kerr from higher-spin

    Two approaches that provide local formulae for Compton amplitudes of higher-spin massive objects in the quantum regime and classical limit.

  • People23 Sep

    Finance Director

    Sanjeeb Seal is the Finance Director at LIMS, where he manages all finance-related matters as well as working on our strategy and growth.

  • Papers11 Sep

    Spiky backpropagation

    Nature Communications accepts “The backpropagation algorithm implemented on spiking neuromorphic hardware” by Forrest Sheldon and coauthors.

  • Press4 Sep

    From physics into maths

    Why are physical insights from the real world proving so useful for solving abstruse problems in pure mathematics, Ananyo Bhattacharya asks.

  • Jobs1 Sep

    Trustee

    The London Institute is recruiting a new trustee to raise money, protect the Institute’s values, and enhance its profile on the global stage.

  • Papers1 Sep

    Root-Kerr from higher-spin

    Journal of High Energy Physics accepts “From higher-spin gauge interactions to Compton amplitudes for root-Kerr” by Alexander Ochirov and coauthors.

  • Jobs1 Sep

    Finance Director

    Working with Walker Hamill Recruitment, the London Institute recruited Sanjeeb Seal as the finance director. He starts on 23 September 2024.

  • Press29 Aug

    Spreading the word

    In the Harvard Business Review, our trustee Martin Reeves and co-authors explain how ‘evolvable scripts’ greatly improve knowledge-sharing.

  • News16 Aug

    Welcome, Talulah

    As a London Institute Trustee, the actress, author and tech entrepreneur Talulah Riley will support our mission to accelerate discovery.

  • Papers16 Aug

    QFT illuminates black holes

    Classical Kerr amplitudes for a rotating black hole derived using insights from recent advances in massive higher-spin quantum field theory.

  • Press15 Aug

    Life of Riley

    The Times’ science editor interviews our new Trustee, Talulah Riley, about her love of physics and her work with the London Institute.

  • Events8 Aug

    DANGER 2024

    The London Institute hosts a two-day workshop for theorists to discuss and explore the links between data science, AI and pure mathematics.

  • Papers5 Aug

    On AI-driven discovery

    A review of progress in the nascent field of AI-assisted discovery in mathematics and theoretical physics identifies three main approaches.

  • Papers4 Aug

    Elliptical murmurations

    Certain properties of the bivariate cubic equations used to prove Fermat’s last theorem exhibit flocking patterns, machine learning reveals.

  • Jobs1 Aug

    Governor

    The London Institute is recruiting a new governor to raise money, grow the Institute and support our start-ups that develop our discoveries.

  • Events31 Jul

    Stable pairs

    In this seminar, Fields Medalist Caucher Birkar talks about sheaf stable pairs in algebraic geometry, especially for Fano varieties.

  • People26 Jul

    Trustee

    Talulah Riley is a LIMS Trustee. An actress, author and tech entrepreneur, she helps us spread the gospel of curiosity driven science.

  • Papers22 Jul

    Peculiar betas tamed

    Inconsistencies between two approaches to deriving beta functions in two-dimensional sigma models are resolved by adding heavy superpartners.

  • Papers19 Jul

    Elliptical murmurations

    Experimental Mathematics accepts “Murmurations of elliptic curves,” by Yang He and coauthors, the first in a series of papers on the subject.

  • News18 Jul

    Our vision

    The London Institute’s vision is its fundamental purpose: “To use mathematics to discover the laws of the universe and our place within it.”

  • Papers15 Jul

    Analysing amoebae

    Genetic symbolic regression methods reveal the relationship between amoebae from tropical geometry and the Mahler measure from number theory.

  • Papers10 Jul

    QFT illuminates black holes

    The journal Physical Review Letters accepts “Compton amplitude for rotating black hole from QFT” by Alexander Ochirov and coauthors.

  • Papers5 Jul

    On AI-driven discovery

    The journal Nature Reviews Physics accepts the perspective “AI-driven research in pure mathematics and theoretical physics” by Yang-Hui He.

  • People1 Jul

    Landau Junior Fellow

    Arman Sarikyan is our new Landau Junior Research Fellow. His research focuses on links between birational geometry and derived categories.

  • Papers26 Jun

    Landau meets Kauffman

    Insights from number theory suggest a new way to solve the critical Kauffman model, giving new bounds on the number and length of attractors.

  • Papers26 Jun

    Peculiar betas tamed

    The journal Physical Review D accepts “First-order formalism for β functions in bosonic sigma models...” by Oleksandr Gamayun and coauthors.

  • Papers25 Jun

    A kicked polaron

    The journal SciPost Physics accepts “One-dimensional Fermi polaron after a kick” by our Arnold Fellow, Oleksandr Gamayun, and his coauthor.

  • Papers25 Jun

    On AI-driven discovery

    A review of progress in the nascent field of AI-assisted discovery in mathematics and theoretical physics identifies three main approaches.

  • Papers19 Jun

    Slight degenerations

    The tools used to study polynomial equations with indeterminate coefficients are extended to some important cases with interrelated ones.

  • Papers18 Jun

    Multiplicative loops

    The journal Physical Review Research accepts the paper “Exact behavior of the critical Kauffman model with connectivity one” by Thomas Fink.

  • Press11 Jun

    Beyond politics

    Russia's brain drain is Britain’s gain. Yet the pursuit of knowledge, through global scientific collaboration, should transcend politics.

  • Papers6 Jun

    Landau meets Kauffman

    Journal of Physics A accepts the paper “Insights from number theory into the critical Kauffman model…” by Forrest Sheldon and Thomas Fink.

  • Events5 Jun

    Living with AI

    Journalists from MIT Technology Review discuss some of the risks and opportunities around AI and how the magazine will be covering them.

  • Papers31 May

    Triangulating polytopes

    Machine learning generates desirable triangulations of geometric objects that are required for Calabi-Yau compactification in string theory.

  • Events21 May

    Organising genius

    We are hosting a half-day symposium for scientists, innovators and policymakers to debate the framework within which genius flourishes.

  • Papers16 May

    Non-reciprocal breather

    Producing the first examples of breathing solitons in one-dimensional non-reciprocal media allows their propagation dynamics to be analysed.

  • Press14 May

    Conjuring conjectures

    In a Nature World View piece, our director Thomas Fink argues that mathematics is an ideal testing ground for AI-assisted discovery.

  • News7 May

    Revolutionary innovation

    At the Milken Institute Global Conference, our director Thomas Fink talks about the rewards and structures that incentivise discovery.

  • Papers4 May

    Clifford invariants by ML

    Coxeter transformations for root diagrams of simply-laced Lie groups are exhaustively computed then machine learned to very high accuracy.

  • Papers24 Apr

    Clifford invariants by ML

    Advances in Applied Clifford Algebras accepts “Machine Learning Clifford invariants of ADE Coxeter elements” by Yang-Hui He and coauthors.

  • Papers15 Apr

    Counting free fermions

    A link between the statistical properties of free fermions in one dimension when either half- or alternating- states are initially occupied.

  • Press15 Apr

    Talking is thinking

    Talking engages robust muscles of thought—not least when mathematicians take their problems to the blackboard, argues Thomas Hodgkinson.

  • Papers12 Apr

    Spiking backpropagation

    The training algorithm for digital neural networks is adapted and implemented entirely on an experimental chip inspired by brain physiology.

  • Papers3 Apr

    PCM in arbitrary fields

    The first exact solution for the vacuum state of an asymptotically free QFT in a general external field found for the Principal Chiral Model.

  • Website28 Mar

    Soft power

    Our new soft power page catalogues all we do that doesn’t directly concern research and fundraising, such as our voice, website and building.

  • Papers28 Mar

    A kicked polaron

    Modelling the final state of a mobile impurity particle immersed in a one-dimensional quantum fluid after the abrupt application of a force.

  • Press21 Mar

    Roll over, Newton

    A robotic metamaterial has been made that violates Newton’s third law of motion, allowing for the propagation of topological solitons.

  • Press20 Mar

    Congratulations, Sasha

    Congratulations to Oleksandr Gamayun and coauthors, whose paper in Nature extends research on solitons that began in a 19th century canal.

  • Papers20 Mar

    Strange kinks

    A new non-linear mechanical metamaterial can sustain topological solitons, robust solitary waves that could have exciting applications.

  • Press18 Mar

    Creative convergence

    The advertising guru Graham Fink waxes lyrical about equations and working with the London Institute on the How Do You Feel Today? podcast.

  • Press16 Mar

    Let's talk about science

    For its 225th birthday, our writer Thomas Hodgkinson hails the Royal Institution as proof of the vital importance of science communication.

  • Papers8 Mar

    PCM in arbitrary fields

    The journal Physical Review Letters accepts “Large-N principal chiral model in arbitrary external fields” by Evgeny Sobko and coauthors.

  • Press5 Mar

    Elliptic curve mystery

    Quanta reports on work by Yang-Hui He, who co-discovered unexpected patterns in a property related to the curves’ integer roots using AI.

  • Press29 Feb

    Geometry’s dominion

    Following his popular Discourse, Yang-Hui He joins writer Madeleine Hall to talk about the mysteries of geometry on the Ri Science podcast.

  • People26 Feb

    Assistant to the director

    Justine Crean is the assistant to the director at LIMS. She helps manage our scientists and staff and coordinate the Institute’s activities.

  • Jobs22 Feb

    Chief graphic designer

    The London Institute is recruiting a world-class graphic designer to visualise our mathematical discoveries and enhance our visual identity.