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/

Contact Info
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Time stamps
(0:00:00 ) Coming Up
(0:00:26 ) Intro of guest
(0:00:54 ) Time at IIT and interest in Physics
(0:04:30 ) His interest in String Theory
(0:08:20 ) Interest in the Islands approach
(0:10:09 ) Massive Gravitons in Islands?
(0:15:43 ) His opinion on the Fuzzball program
(0:18:44 ) State of string theory
(0:21:46 ) Important Areas in String Theory
(0:24:30 ) Pure Spinor Formalism
(0:25:18 ) String Field Theory's community
(0:29:04 ) deSitter spacetime in String Theory
(0:33:24 ) Third superstring revolution?
(0:35:30 ) Spacetime isn't fundamental
(0:38:25 ) Nonsupersymmetric situations
(0:40:47 ) Swampland program
(0:43:54 ) His work on Instantons in 2D
(0:55:00 ) Job Market in String Theory
(1:06:02 ) (People's question) Intuition vs Calculations
(1:08:03 ) (People's question) AI and Theoretical Physics
(1:11:49 ) (People's question) Computers in research
(1:13:04 ) (People's question) Physics pathway in India
(1:14:48 ) (People's question) String Theory Criticism
(1:18:47 ) (People's question) String Theory is the end?
(1:19:31 ) (People's question) Taking Ph.D. students
(1:20:01 ) (People's question) Advice for young scientists