Dr Anson Cheung

About
Anson is a theoretical physicist specialising in condensed matter and complex systems. Passionate about problem-solving pedagogy, he is a British Physics Olympiad trustee with secondary school management experience.
Anson is a theoretical physicist with a background in building models in condensed matter theory. He specialises in complex systems with many-body interactions. He received his undergraduate degree and PhD from Cambridge University where he was a research fellow and remains an affiliated lecturer. Keenly interested in the pedagogical development of problem-solving skills at the secondary-tertiary interface, he is a trustee of the British Physics Olympiad, and he has also served in middle management in secondary schools.
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Teaching
Anson oversees the quantitative methods courses at LIS and in particular teaches on Quantitative Methods 1A, Intermediate Quantitative Modelling, Advanced Quantitative Modelling, Engaging Complexity (BASc/MASc).
Research
Dr Cheung leads a team with TfL examining methods of reducing fare evasion. His other interests include phase transitions in complex systems.
Selected publications: General characterisation of Hamiltonians generating velocity-independent forces, F Yip and A C H Cheung (2024) J. Phys. A: Math. Theor. 57 275203
A Cavendish Quantum Mechanics Primer, Warner and Cheung (2021), Cambridge University Press.