Phymaths podcast # 48 || Guest: Dr. Raghu Mahajan from Phymaths podcast

Phymaths podcast # 48 || Guest: Dr. Raghu Mahajan

1 hour 24 minutes Posted Jan 5, 2025 at 11:41 pm.

) Coming Up

) Intro of guest

) Time at IIT and interest in Physics

) His interest in String Theory

) Interest in the Islands approach

) Massive Gravitons in Islands?

) His opinion on the Fuzzball program

) State of string theory

) Important Areas in String Theory

) Pure Spinor Formalism

) String Field Theory's community

) deSitter spacetime in String Theory

) Third superstring revolution?

) Spacetime isn't fundamental

) Nonsupersymmetric situations

) Swampland program

) His work on Instantons in 2D

) Job Market in String Theory

) (People's question) Intuition vs Calculations

) (People's question) AI and Theoretical Physics

) (People's question) Computers in research

) (People's question) Physics pathway in India

) (People's question) String Theory Criticism

) (People's question) String Theory is the end?

) (People's question) Taking Ph.D. students

) (People's question) Advice for young scientists

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Description

Dr. Raghu Mahajan is a theoretical physicist at ICTS Bangalore, working on the problems regarding instantons. He has previously worked on the Island's approach to Black Holes. A list of his works can be found in the link below.

Some links

1) Dr. Mahajan's works: https://inspirehep.net/authors/1229066

2) 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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