Phymaths podcast # 67 || Dr. Alok Laddha

Description

Alok Laddha is a theoretical physicist at the Chennai Mathematical Institute, who majorly works on soft theorems, S matrices, and the positive geometry program. The list of his works can be found at the link provided below.

Some links

1) His works: https://inspirehep.net/authors/1036956

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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Time Stamps

(0:00) Coming up

(0:22) Intro of the guest

(0:44) His current projects

(01:59) Soft theorems

(12:16) Soft theorems and symmetries

(18:43) Soft theorems for scalars

(21:50) Soft theorem for higher spin?

(25:40) Positive Geometry program

(36:50) Unitarity from positive geometry

(48:08) Gentle Quivers (for positive geometry)

(50:37) Positive Geometry and Holography

(53:30) Positive Geometry and String Field Theory

(55:44) Reading Literature

(1:01:02) Choosing problems

(1:02:30) (People's question) Important problems

(1:05:13) (People's question) Advice for PhD/Postdocs

(1:07:37) (People's question) Research outside academia

(1:09:40) (People's question) PhD after a big gap

(1:11:07) (People's question) Hep-th job market

(1:13:53) (People's question) Gravitational wave memory

(1:15:53) (People's question) Leaving LQG

(1:19:22) (People's question) His hobbies