Phymaths podcast # 66 || Dr. Jonathan Heckman
Show notes
Description
Jonathan Heckman is a theoretical physicist at the University of Pennsylvania and works on generalized symmetries, the swampland program, holography, and F theory, among other related areas. The list of his works can be found at the link provided below.
Some links
1) His works: https://inspirehep.net/authors/1045268
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) Coming Up
(0:24) Introduction of the guest
(0:40) His current projects
(4:54) Grand Unified Theories (GUTs) and F theory
(17:19) Algebraic Geometry for F theory
(22:40) Role of singularities in model building
(24:53) GUT models in F theory (continued)
(28:50) Engineering SCFTs from F theory
(43:38) Engineering SCFTs in odd dimensions
(48:58) Transitioning to generalized symmetries
(52:54) Defining QFTs
(55:44) Swampland and Cobordism conjecture
(1:03:20) R7 branes
(1:08:35) Falsifying string theory at colliders
(1:18:33) Building collaborations (and fear of being wrong)
(1:22:56) Choosing a problem to work on
(1:27:53) Handling multiple projects
(1:30:34) Selecting a Ph.D student
(1:34:30) (People's question) Learning string theory
(1:36:27) (People's question) Learning abstract topics
(1:38:12) (People's question) Important problems
(1:43:30) (People's question) UPenn funding
(1:45:03) (People's question) Symmetries on T folds