catan - Chalkdust

Settlers of Catan’s board is based on hexagons.

Image: Catan Wikimedia Commons user Yonghokim, CC BY-SA 4.0

Calum is a lecturer in physics at Edge Hill University where he studies topological solitons and enjoys talking about maths and physics to anyone who will listen. He can often be found on the side of a mountain or out on a bike, talking to himself about solitons.

Oπnions: In defence of toy models
Calum gets on his soap box about toy models
Cryptic wordsearch, Issue 19
Can you solve it?
On the cover: skyrmions
Sven Bjarke Gudnason and Calum Ross introduce you to the wonderful world of skyrmions
The magic of particle prediction
Madi Hammond shows us how physicists are predicting the fundamental particles of the universe.
Origami tesseract
Folding origami, building networks, making projections and multiple dimensions!
A counterintuitive result in the theory of traffic flow
Additional roads do not imply faster travel times!