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Funding16 Dec
Endowments
To secure its long-term future and attract world-class talent, LIMS is raising endowments for Chairs, Fellowships and Junior Fellowships.
Papers6 Dec
Vortex bound states
Modelling the behaviour of two interacting bosonic particles in a chiral, dimerized optical lattice shows the pair form a vortex bound state.
Papers25 Nov
Triangulating polytopes
The journal Physics Letters B accepts the paper “Generating triangulations and fibrations with reinforcement learning” by Yang-Hui He and coauthors.
People20 Nov
LIMS Fellow
Dr Juven Wang is a Fellow at LIMS. He explores many-body condensed matter, high-energy physics, quantum field theory, and quantum information.
Papers15 Nov
Learning to be Simple
Neural networks classify simple finite groups by generators, unlike earlier methods using Cayley tables, leading to a proven explicit criterion.
Papers13 Nov
Infinite parallelotope
The journal Linear Algebra and its Applications accepts the paper “The height of an infinite parallelotope is infinite” by Oleksandr Kosyak.
Papers8 Nov
Reflexions on Mahler
The journal Communications in Mathematical Physics accepts “Reflexions on Mahler: Dessins, modularity and Gauge theories” by Yang-Hui He and coauthors.
Press4 Nov
Re-ordering Russia
Mikhail Khodorkovsky talks to Thomas W. Hodgkinson about the future of Russia and why he supports Fellowships at the London Institute.
Press30 Oct
Launch of Irix
The London Institute, which uses humans to speed up fundamental discovery, launches Irix, a company that harnesses machines to do the same.
Papers22 Oct
Vortex bound states
Modelling the behaviour of two interacting bosonic particles in a chiral, dimerized optical lattice shows the pair form a vortex bound state.
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.
Jobs20 Oct
LIMS Fellow
The London Institute is recruiting an outstanding theoretical physicist or mathematician to take up an open-ended position, starting in 2025.
Press11 Oct
Science needs Russians
Like chess, theoretical research is an international game played in the language of patterns. Its intrinsic value transcends politics.
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.
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.
Papers27 Sep
Spinning Root-Kerr
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.
Papers10 Sep
Set additivity and grow
The additive dimension of a set, which is the size of a maximal dissociated subset, is closely connected to the rapid growth of higher sumsets.
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
Spinning Root-Kerr
Journal of High Energy Physics accepts “From higher-spin gauge interactions to Compton amplitudes for root-Kerr” by Alexander Ochirov et al.
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
Brightening 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
Brightening 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.