DiscoverPhymaths podcastPhymaths podcast # 50 || Guest: Dr. Nabil Iqbal
Phymaths podcast # 50 || Guest: Dr. Nabil Iqbal

Phymaths podcast # 50 || Guest: Dr. Nabil Iqbal

Update: 2025-02-02
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Dr. Nabil Iqbal is a theoretical physicist at Durham University. He works on holography, generalized symmetries, and condensed matter physics among other things. A list of his works can be found in the link below.

Some links
1) Dr. Iqbal's works: https://inspirehep.net/authors/1051240
2) Link to the high energy physics resources page on my website: https://hassaansaleem.com/graduate-level-theoretical-physics-resources-in-progress/

Contact Info
My website: hassaansaleem.com
Follow on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/hassaan.3142/
Join the Whatsapp channel: https://whatsapp.com/channel/0029Va9DkjmAzNbs7IlGuv1X
Follow on Twitter: https://twitter.com/Hassaan_PHY
Email Queries: greatestmight@gmail.com

Time stamps
(0:00 ) Coming Up
(0:37 ) Guest's intro
(0:59 ) Inspiration for Physics
(5:00 ) Holography overview
(9:02 ) Maldacena's example of holography
(15:13 ) Using holography for QCD
(20:15 ) Truncating AdS spacetime
(23:38 ) Chiral symmetry breaking
(25:00 ) Non-Fermi liquids
(30:54 ) Strange metals
(33:16 ) Holography and Non-Fermi liquids
(35:43 ) Holography and higher spin gravity
(40:00 ) Evading Weinberg-Witten theorem
(42:58 ) Generalized symmetries (Overview)
(49:28 ) Applications of generalized symmetries
(52:56 ) Kramers-Wannier duality
(57:44 ) Symmetries as topological operators
(1:00:47 ) Machine learning rediscovers duality
(1:07:11 ) Sine Gordon/ Thirring duality
(1:11:24 ) Which architecture to use?
(1:16:21 ) How to see AI physics discoveries?
(1:20:38 ) Tackling physics misinformation
(1:26:40 ) The "Lying for Grants" lie
(1:31:25 ) How to take Ph.D. students?
(1:33:21 ) Lack of motivation
(1:35:00 ) Getting back from failed projects
(1:38:07 ) (People's question) Strings & 3D Ising model
(1:40:58 ) People's questions (Rapid fire)
(1:47:32 ) US vs UK Ph.D. system
(1:49:11 ) Advice for undergrad, master & Ph.D students
(1:51:23 ) Dealing with Imposter syndrome

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Phymaths podcast # 50 || Guest: Dr. Nabil Iqbal

Phymaths podcast # 50 || Guest: Dr. Nabil Iqbal

Hassaan Saleem