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Phymaths podcast # 38 || Dr. Cliff Burgess
1 hour 18 minutes Posted Oct 15, 2024 at 3:56 am.
) Coming Up
) Intro
) Introduction of the guest
) Weinberg as an advisor
) No papers with Weinberg
) Weinberg's notation and conventions
) How he chose his Ph.D. topic
) What you don't know and what nobody knows
) Enthusiasm for Effective Field Theory (EFT)
) John Donoghue's work
) Getting deSitter in string theory
) On modifying gravity
) Inflation models
) His work on quantum Hall effect
) His experience of writing textbooks
) Favorite interpretation of quantum mechanics?
) People's questions
) His reaction to the accelerating universe
) People's questions (continued)
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Dr. Cliff Burgess is a theoretical physicist at McMaster University and Perimeter Institute. He works on string theory, quantum gravity, cosmology, dark matter, and occasionally condensed matter physics. He did his Ph.D. from UT Austin, Texas, in 1985 under the supervision of Dr. Steven Weinberg. The list of his works can be seen below.
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1) Dr. Burgess' Twitter profile: https://twitter.com/cburgescliff
2) Dr. Burgess' list of works: https://inspirehep.net/authors/1014953?ui-citation-summary=true
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