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.
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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
Chalkdust issue 17 – Coming 22 May
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On the cover: Hydrogen orbitals
Find out more about the weird shapes on the cover of Issue 08
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Donald Duck learns that there is “a lot more to mathematics than two-times-two”.
