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On 20 July 2017 the Institute held a day of celebrations to mark the 25th anniversary of its opening in 1992. Amongst the many esteemed guests and speakers present were founding INI director Sir Michael Atiyah OM FRS FRSE FMedSci FREng, Fields Medallist Martin Hairer KBE FRS, broadcasters Dr Hannah Fry and Dr Simon Singh (pictured above), and - to mark what was also the anniversary of his original proof of Fermat's Last Theorem - Sir Andrew Wiles. The talks took place in the very same room in which Sir Andrew first presented his proof of the 17th century conjecture. 

Many thanks to all of you who entered our exciting 25th anniversary puzzle competition! We have now sifted through all of the excellent responses and randomly chosen a winning set of answers.

Sir Vaughan Jones will be delivering a special talk on "Knots and links from the Thompson groups" at INI on Wednesday 14 June.

Noted for his extensive work on von Neumann algebras and recipient of the Fields Medal in 1990, Vaughan Jones is an organiser of the current six month INI programme "Operator algebras: subfactors and their applications". This hour-long talk has been arranged at short notice due to recent and significant developments in his research. 

The talk is open to all and the full details are as follows: