Phymaths podcast # 41 || Dr. Samir Mathur

Dr. Samir Mathur is a well-known theoretical physicist at Ohio State University. He has worked for a long time on the information paradox and he is known for (among other things) his fuzzball proposal. The list of his works can be found below. Some links 1) Samir Mathur's works: https://inspirehep.net/authors/998393 2) His famous "small corrections theorem" paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/0909.1038 3) His review on fuzzballs: https://arxiv.org/abs/0810.4525 3) 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/ Follow on Twitter: https://twitter.com/Hassaan_PHY Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/phymaths3142 Email Queries: [email protected] Time stamps (0:00) Coming Up (0:33) Intro (0:48) Introduction of the guest (1:16) His active projects (6:27) His thoughts on DESI results (7:58) Small corrections theorem: What took so long? (12:58) His email exchange with Ed Witten (15:46) GR community and string theory (18:00) Fuzzball: The motivation (29:10) Phase transition (horizon to no horizon) (30:28) Black hole vs fuzzball complementarity (45:09) Suvrat Raju's paper on split property (49:53) Effective small corrections theorem (52:46) Using AdS/CFT and Islands for black holes (1:04:50) His counterexample for 2D gravity (1:08:24) Changing the Island at every step? (1:15:33) Page curve in fuzzball paradigm (1:17:00) Why subadditivity isn't internalized? (1:24:40) What if horizon comes up in string theory? (1:26:16) Problems in high energy physics community (1:36:21) (People's question) Suvrat's holography proposal (1:41:32) (People's question) His work with Mukhi and Sen (1:44:43) (People's question) New predictions of fuzzball? (1:47:40) (People's question) Fuzzball on white holes (1:49:08) (People's question) Quantizing D Branes (1:50:38) Learning String Field Theory (1:54:33) (People's question) Accepting new Ph.D. students (2:00:58) Dealing with confusion as a researcher (2:08:30) Good Bye