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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.

What’s hot and what’s not, Issue 12
Fashion is fleeting, Chalkdust regulars are not.
Artificial music
Carmen Cabrera Arnau explores the use of AI in composition
Crossnumber winners, issue 09
Did you solve it?
Review: Power in numbers — the rebel women of mathematics
Celebrate International Women's day by reading about rebel women in mathematics!
Is it possible to reach absolute zero?
After 100 years, a key postulate of the third law of thermodynamics has been proven. We meet Lluis Masanes, one of the researchers responsible.
The perils of p-values
David Colquhoun explains why more discoveries are false than you thought