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An Investigation of Erickson’s Square Game using the Minimax Algorithm
Or… “Are we smarter than 50 lines of code and Ireland’s most powerful supercomputer?”
Our project is a theoretical Computer Science and Mathematics project that aimed to explore the outcomes of optimal play scenarios in Erickson’s Square Game by applying the Minimax algorithm to the game.

“Lunar Mission One is the most inspirational Moon project since the Apollo landings. Funded by the public it will perform world-leading science into the origin of the Moon and the planets, and it will leave a permanent archive of human life buried at the Moon’s south pole.” (lunarmissionone.com) Up until now, space exploration has been […]

Here I present the results of my photometry on the V-band emissions of the low-mass X-Ray binary system V404 Cygni using the Las Cumbres Observatory Global Telescope Network 1m instrument in Texas during the Summer 2015 outburst. This was done to attempt to ascertain whether the system had returned to quiescence or not at the time of observation.