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
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Ode to Newtonian mechanics
(after Sonnet 130)
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Tricks and puzzles that provide an introduction to the world of partitions
Page 3 model: Ponytails
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