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Carmen is doing a PhD in applied mathematics at UCL with a focus on mathematical modelling of complex systems in urban environments. She enjoys maths outreach, eating cheese naan, and has been working for Chalkdust since 2017.

A daredevil’s disaster
Donovan Young goes round the bend exploring what happens when the loop-the-loop goes wrong
The hidden harmonies of Hamming distance
Chris Boucher explores the secrets and symmetries behind a measure of the distance between binary strings
Artificial music
Carmen Cabrera Arnau explores the use of AI in composition
Review: Power in numbers — the rebel women of mathematics
Celebrate International Women's day by reading about rebel women in mathematics!
Power-up review
"Unlocking the hidden mathematics in video games"
Dear Dirichlet Christmas special
Agony uncle Professor Dirichlet answers your personal problems this Christmastime.