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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
On the cover: Spirographs
Ashleigh Wilcox, Jenny Power and Rachel Evans show you how to draw pretty pictures
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 Spirit of Mathematics
We review the ninth of this year's nominees for Book of the Year
Dear Dirichlet, Issue 14
Football, telly and shape-shifting houses find their way into the prof's postbox this issue.

More from Chalkdust

Oπnions: In defence of toy models

On the cover: Spirographs

Cryptic wordsearch, Issue 19

On the cover: skyrmions

The Spirit of Mathematics

Dear Dirichlet, Issue 14