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

Description 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: [email protected] 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