Phymaths podcast # 40 || Dr. John Donoghue from Phymaths podcast

Phymaths podcast # 40 || Dr. John Donoghue

1 hour 2 minutes Posted Oct 15, 2024 at 5:10 pm.

) Coming Up

) Intro

) Introduction of the guest

) His 'prelude to QFT' book

) What made him do the 1994 calculation?

) Influence of the 'thooft-Veltman paper

) Using the (+ - -) metric

) His work on avoiding singularity and its inconclusiveness

) Is the BGV theorem valid in modified gravity?

) Why people are still working on asymptotic safety?

) Is the fixed point a CFT?

) Won't the field theory description break down?

) (People's question) Using machine learning in QFT

) (People's question) Measuring the corrections to Einstein's equation

) (People's question) Why quantize gravity?

) (People's question) Gravity without spacetime

) (People's question) Tackling hard problems in Ph.D.

) (People's question) How to select Ph.D. students?

) (People's question) What problems he wants solved?

) (People's question) Using holography for EFTs

) (People's question) Nonuniversality of lightcones

) (People's question) Probing black holes using EFTs

) Goodbye

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Dr. John Donoghue is a theoretical physicist at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. He is well known for his work on effective field theories of gravity. He has also co-authored two books (links given below).

Some links

1) Dynamics of the standard model: https://www.amazon.com/Dynamics-Standard-Cambridge-Monographs-Cosmology/dp/0521476526

2) A prelude to Quantum Field Theory: https://www.amazon.com/Prelude-Quantum-Field-Theory/dp/0691223483

3) List of Dr. Donoghue's works: https://inspirehep.net/authors/1011544

4) Link to the high energy physics resources page on my website: https://hassaansaleem.com/graduate-level-theoretical-physics-resources-in-progress/

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