Phymaths podcast # 66 || Dr. Jonathan Heckman

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