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February 2025
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]