Optimising custody is child's play for physicists

(Springer) Physics can provide insights into societal trends. Problems involving interactions between people linked in real-life networks can be better understood by using physical models. Gomberoff set out to resolve one of his real-life problems: finding a suitable weekend for both partners in his recomposed family to see all their children at the same time. He then joined forces with a mathematician and a complex systems expert. This resulted in a study published in EPJ B.