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A Chinese checkers board set up for a three player game.

Image: Chinese-checkers Wikimedia Commons user Splattne, CC BY-SA 3.0

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
Slaying the dragon
Callum Ilkiw takes us through a Dungeons and Dragons dice dilemma
The first Black Mathematician Month outreach event
Looking back at the exciting day that closed our 2018 celebrations
What’s hot and what’s not, issue 07
Fashion is fleeting, Chalkdust regulars are not.