Phymaths podcast # 49 || Dr. Zohar Komargodski

Description Dr. Zohar Komargodski is a theoretical physicist at the Simon center for Geometry and Physics and he works on RG flows, 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. Komargodski's works: https://inspirehep.net/authors/1021214 2) Link to the high energy physics resources page on my website: https://hassaansaleem.com/graduate-le... Contact Info My website: hassaansaleem.com Follow on Instagram:   / hassaan.3142   Join the Whatsapp channel: https://whatsapp.com/channel/0029Va9D... Follow on Twitter:   / hassaan_phy   Email Queries: [email protected] Time stamps 0:00 Coming Up 0:43 Guest's intro 1:08 His interest in physics 2:52 His interest in high-energy physics 4:17 Overview of RG flows 8:03 Relation with effective field theories 13:36 Extra terms in Maxwell equations 15:00 What does a theory 'flowing' mean? 18:22 Fixed points in RG flows (CFTs) 20:48 What a CFT can flow to? 21:12 c-theorem 28:55 a-theorem 30:58 Similar theorems in higher dimensions 32:25 Symmetries preserved under RG flows 36:21 How to define an anomaly? 38:52 What is a 'thooft anomaly? 44:47 Is ABJ anomaly an anomaly? 47:28 Unsolved problems regarding RG flows 49:52 Holographic methods for RG flows 51:22 Overview of generalized symmetries 58:04 Applications (His paper on monopoles) 1:04:50 Applications (Pion decay and Yang-Mills) 1:08:16 Prospects of generalized symmetries 1:10:06 Which ideas to take seriously? 1:13:22 Phrase "Theory of Everything" is misleading? 1:19:00 Comments on LQG and quantizing gravity 1:35:17 MOND (Philosophy and comments) 1:46:28 Geometric Unity (Philosophy and comments) 1:53:58 SU(5) theory 1:55:57 Tackling science misinformation 2:00:01 The "Lying for grants" lie 2:05:10 Mistakes in papers 2:07:57 Tackling misinformation (continued) 2:10:57 Misinformation, funding and progress 2:15:38 Mathematical consistency 2:21:21 Size of string theory community 2:25:09 High energy Physics job market 2:29:18 Misconceptions about number of papers 2:34:51 How to interpret letters from unknown academics? 2:38:48 How to take Ph.D. students? 2:42:39 Advice for younger researchers? 2:43:37 How to be motivated with slow progress? 2:46:47 (People's question) Symmetry breaking 2:48:42 (People's question) Cosmology 2:50:11 (People's question) Recommendation letter 2:51:16 (People's question) Food places in NYC 2:52:48 Ending Corrections: 1:44:21 NGC 1277 appears to have a "deficit of dark matter" but the acceleration that was probed in the 2023 study was not sufficiently small to probe the MOND regime. So, this study doesn't rule MOND out right away. 2:43:51 He is actually talking about the book "What I Talk About When I Talk About Running" by H. Murakami