acadmathsci - Chalkdust

The Academy for the Mathematical Sciences brings together the five existing UK mathematical societies, like a mathematical society megazord.

Calum Ross

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 hidden harmonies of Hamming distance
Chris Boucher explores the secrets and symmetries behind a measure of the distance between binary strings
How to be the least popular American president
Francisco Berkemeier takes a look at the mathematics behind elections, and the Electoral College, in the United States of America.
Killing by numbers: the mathematics of warfare
A blast from the past. Modelling battle grounds from ancient Greece.