News
March 2025
Gravity from entropy: A radical new approach to unifying quantum mechanics and general relativity
Faculty of Science and Engineering
4 March 2025In a new study published in Physical Review D Professor Ginestra Bianconi, Professor of Applied Mathematics at Queen Mary University of London, proposes a groundbreaking new framework that could revolutionise our understanding of gravity and its relationship with quantum mechanics. The study, titled Gravity from Entropy, introduces a novel approach ... [more]
February 2025
Groundbreaking study reveals how topology drives complexity in brain, climate and AI
Faculty of Science and Engineering
24 February 2025A new study led by Professor Ginestra Bianconi from Queen Mary University of London, in collaboration with international researchers, has unveiled a transformative framework for understanding complex systems. Published in Nature Physics, this pioneering study establishes the new field of higher-order topological dynamics, revealing how the hidden topology of networks ... [more]
A Night of Science and Engineering: exploring Tomorrow's World at Queen Mary
Faculty of Science and Engineering
24 February 2025Queen Mary University of London's third annual Night of Science and Engineering brought together leading industry partners, researchers, academics, policymakers, and the public for an evening of discovery, innovation, and collaboration. Held in the historic Octagon venue on 20 Feb, this year's event, themed 'Tomorrow's World', showcased groundbreaking research that is ... [more]
Mathematical model for understanding the emergence of new ideas
10 February 2025Creativity and the discovery of new ideas and concepts are fascinating and mysterious processes. To shed light on the mechanisms behind them, mathematicians study such exploration processes as time-ordered sequences of events, like the songs listened to by an individual or the titles of scientific publications. A "discovery" or "novelty" ... [more]
January 2025
UKRI grant for stabilizing South Africa's power grid awarded to international research team led by Christian Beck
28 January 2025The Science and Technology Facilities Council of UKRI has awarded a £499,258 research grant for a statistical physics-based analysis of the South African power grid to Christian Beck, Professor of Applied Mathematics and Head of the Centre for Complex Systems at QMUL, and his three co-investigators Chantelle Van Staden, Cristina Trois (... [more]
Two popular science articles on the physics of living systems by Rainer Klages
8 January 2025Rainer Klages, a Reader in Applied Mathematics in the Centre for Complex Systems, recently published two news articles on exciting insights into the physical behavior of biological systems. The first article is a Viewpoint in the Physics Magazine of the American Physical Society and presents a result by Sorkin et ... [more]