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Eventscoming 19 oct
Meet Prof. Williamson
Geordie Williamson discusses the nature of mathematical discovery, the impact of AI and the future of mathematics as a human profession.
Eventscoming 19 oct
What maths means to us
Geordie Williamson explores what AI’s rise reveals about how humans do mathematics, from definitions and prediction to the role of geometry.
Eventscoming 12 oct
Bootstrapping strings
Shai Chester explores how to bootstrap string theory in AdS using AdS/CFT, from conformal blocks to the first correction beyond flat space.
Eventscoming 1 oct
How evolution searches
Roman Belavkin explains why mutation slows near an evolutionary optimum, while recombination can keep adaptation moving by reshuffling DNA.
Eventscoming 30 sep
Beyond the continuum
Boris Zilber explores whether a finite structure can approximate the continuous world, with implications for spacetime and quantum theory.
Eventscoming 30 sep
Reconstructing rings
Elena Bunina shows how matrix groups retain a hidden record of the algebraic data used to build them, even when their origins are unknown.
Eventscoming 24 sep
Making sense of S⁶
Nikon Kurnosov explains Claude’s proposed solution to the six-dimensional sphere puzzle, using Phil Engel’s geometric account of the proof.
Papers16 Sep
Cohomological beta
A new algebraic method shows beta functions arise when conformal symmetry breaks, reproducing Cardy’s formula without computing correlators.
Papers16 Sep
Arithmetic as images
Computer vision distinguishes elliptic curves from random data and predicts analytic rank by reading arithmetic patterns in digital images.
Papers15 Sep
Multicomponent flow
Strong interactions reshape transport in one-dimensional quantum gases, with unusual temperature effects and anomalous current fluctuations.
Press15 Sep
What America gets right
In Billionaire Magazine, our development director Sarah Myers Cornaby asks why Britain has given up on endowment, while America forges ahead.
Events14 Sep
Simplicity runs deep
Thomas Fink shows how a hierarchical composition naturally favours simple outputs, revealing an intrinsic Occam’s razor in layered systems.
Papers10 Sep
From Foliations to Kato
The Global Spherical Shell conjecture is proved for a class of complex surfaces with two singular holomorphic foliations, a key open case.
Press27 Aug
On rethinking research
Our director Thomas Fink talks about how and why he founded the London Institute on physicist and entrepreneur Steve Hsu’s Manifold podcast.
People19 Aug
Welcome, Zeel
Zeel Patel is a LIMS governor and President of Savaya Capital, a private family office that invests in technology across global markets.
Events19 Aug
Qubits for QFT
Jiunn-Wei Chen shows how quantum computers can turn field theory into a laboratory for particles and gauge fields coming to equilibrium.
People18 Aug
Welcome, Chris
Chris Hull is a Fellow at LIMS and Professor at Imperial College. He works on superstring theory, quantum gravity and quantum field theory.
Papers17 Aug
Mott to superconductor
npj Quantum Materials accepts paper “Superconductivity from doping symmetric mass generation insulators...” by Juven Wang and his coauthors.
Papers12 Aug
Exact hard-rod dynamics
A canonical quantum fluid model is solved exactly, revealing universal correlation patterns governed by Gaussian random-matrix ensembles.
Papers11 Aug
Analysing the vacuum
Birational methods in algebraic geometry are used to explicitly describe the vacuum structure of the Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model.
Papers10 Aug
Three fermion families
Physical Review D accepts paper “Fermion families and Pontryagin class: Topological field theory via...” by Juven Wang and his coauthors.
People4 Aug
Welcome, Venu
Mr Goswami is a Ramanujan Junior Visitor at LIMS. His work focuses on stochastic processes and non-linear dynamics in population genetics.
Papers14 Jul
C, P and T in fractions
Charge-conjugation, space-parity and time-reversal symmetries are shown to form noncommutative groups, including the order-16 Pauli group.
Events14 Jul
Aspects of geometry
The London Institute hosts a workshop on algebraic geometry focusing on deformation theory, representation theory and birational geometry.
News6 Jul
Georgi–Glashow Prize
The London Institute is establishing an annual prize of £500 for the best collaborative research paper written by two or more of its members.
Events1 Jul
The shape of music
Music is seen as well as heard, with our governor Thore Graepel’s visualisation of sound, and a recital by acclaimed pianist Sasha Grynyuk.
Events30 Jun
Being hyperefficient
Mithu Storoni explores the science of mental performance, revealing how to cultivate productivity, creativity, focus and sustained insight.
Papers25 Jun
A Calabi–Yau toolkit
We introduce CIPro, a new toolkit that automates calculations on Calabi–Yau geometries and helps explore string compactifications and vacua.
Events12 Jun
A simpler cosmology
In a new video, Neil Turok presents a minimal paradigm for cosmology that explains the universe’s large-scale structure and dark matter.
Papers11 Jun
Physics of bundles
Canonical connections in string compactifications are computed for a broad class of bundles over Calabi-Yau manifolds by a new method.
Papers10 Jun
Transcendentality proof
The principle of maximal transcendentality is proved to all orders for the vacuum energy of a strongly interacting quantum field theory.
Press10 Jun
Unseen elegance
Our Fellow Evgeny Sobko’s research on AI-driven discovery of integrable models is featured by Nebius Science. Nebius helps support his work.
Papers10 Jun
Dynamical frustration
A new metamaterial composed of oscillators driven by external pumping is used to study the unidirectional drift of stable phase dislocations.
People9 Jun
Welcome, Sandra
Sandra Suits is the office coordinator at LIMS, where her duties include helping to host events and assisting our scientists and staff.
Press8 Jun
AI will augment theory
In a Nature comment, we set out how AI systems will help human scientists accelerate discovery in mathematics and theoretical physics.
Papers8 Jun
Analysing the vacuum
Physical Review D accepts paper “The vacuum moduli space of the minimal supersymmetric standard model” by Yang-Hui He and his coauthors.
Events5 Jun
Meet Neil Turok
In a new video, Neil Turok discusses the future of theoretical physics, the impact of AI and how to build institutes for fundamental science.
Papers1 Jun
Deep-layer distribution
The output distribution of a deep-layered machine with random logics exhibits a critical network depth, at which it is maximally biased.
Papers25 May
Three fermion families
A colour symmetry extension of baryon plus lepton symmetric gapped quantum topological order replaces families of massive sterile neutrinos.
People18 May
Welcome, Justin
Justin Tan is a Cognia Junior Research Fellow at LIMS. His work focuses on string theory, computational geometry and AI-assisted mathematics.
Events18 May
Frontiers of AI
Mikhail Burtsev and Yang-Hui He explore advances in AI, from long-context transformers to the impact of machine intelligence on science.
People15 May
Welcome, Devon
As well as a LIMS governor, Devon Cross is president of Logos Forums, which runs strategic simulations spanning tech, finance and security.
Events14 May
AI meets string theory
Andre Lukas shows how machine learning tackles string theory’s vast data, uncovering patterns, exploring its landscape and solving equations.
Events13 May
Meet Neil Turok
Neil Turok discusses the future of theoretical physics, the impact of AI and how to build and lead institutes for fundamental research.
Events13 May
A simpler cosmology
Neil Turok presents a minimal paradigm for cosmology that explains the universe’s large-scale structure, dark matter and the Standard Model.
Papers5 May
A new leptogenesis
We propose that dark matter consists of topological order, so gapped anyon excitations decay to generate the Standard Model's lepton asymmetry.
Papers1 May
An 8-fold way for CRT
Varying the spacetime dimensions fermions occupy shows charge-conjugation C, space-reflection R and time-reversal T symmetries are 8-fold periodic.
Events23 Apr
Unstable singularities
Javier Gómez-Serrano shows how machine learning uncovers unstable singularities in fluid dynamics equations, achieving near-maximal accuracy.
Papers22 Apr
Permuting the roots
The Galois group of a typical rational function is described and similar problems solved using the topology of braids and tropical geometry.
Papers16 Apr
Permuting the roots
The Journal of the European Mathematical Society accepts “Permuting the roots…” by our Fellow Alexander Esterov and his coauthor.
Papers9 Apr
Multi-path transfer
Simultaneous propagation along multiple paths speeds excitation transfer in long-range lattices, proving an evident quantum advantage.
Events9 Apr
Topological anomalies
Weicheng Ye presents a framework for anomalies in topological orders and shows how they determine which phases can be physically realised.
Events7 Apr
Continuous gauging
Matthew Yu introduces a categorical framework for gauging symmetries and constructs Symmetry Topological Field Theories with boundaries.
Events7 Apr
Non-orientable TQFTs
Ippo Orii surveys topological field theories and discusses the implications of recent progress in extending them to non-orientable manifolds.
People6 Apr
How I work
Thomas Hodgkinson describes his routine and the tricks and techniques he deploys for getting his writing done and placing it in the press.
People6 Apr
How I work
Thomas Fink describes the routines, rituals and habits that he has developed for his research and writing and running the London Institute.
Events2 Apr
New maths with AI
Adam Zsolt Wagner discusses how AI-driven search in language space accelerates mathematical discovery and progress on long-standing problems.
Papers25 Mar
AI for error correction
Machine learning finds “champion” codes by predicting and optimising their minimum Hamming distance, a measure of a code’s robustness.
Papers20 Mar
An 8-fold way for CRT
The journal Physical Review B accepts “C-R-T fractionalisation in the first quantised Hamiltonian theory” by Juven Wang and his coauthors.
Events16 Mar
Entanglement matters
In a new video, colloquium speaker Frank Verstraete shows how tensor networks harness entanglement to simulate quantum many-body systems.