Dr. Raghu Mahajan is a theoretical physicist at ICTS Bangalore, working on the problems regarding instantons. He has previously worked on the Island's approach to Black Holes. A list of his works can be found in the link below.

1) Dr. Mahajan's works: https://inspirehep.net/authors/1229066

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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(0:00:00) Coming Up

(0:00:26) Intro of guest

(0:00:54) Time at IIT and interest in Physics

(0:04:30) His interest in String Theory

(0:08:20) Interest in the Islands approach

(0:10:09) Massive Gravitons in Islands?

(0:15:43) His opinion on the Fuzzball program

(0:18:44) State of string theory

(0:21:46) Important Areas in String Theory

(0:24:30) Pure Spinor Formalism

(0:25:18) String Field Theory's community

(0:29:04) deSitter spacetime in String Theory

(0:33:24) Third superstring revolution?

(0:35:30) Spacetime isn't fundamental

(0:38:25) Nonsupersymmetric situations

(0:40:47) Swampland program

(0:43:54) His work on Instantons in 2D

(0:55:00) Job Market in String Theory

(1:06:02) (People's question) Intuition vs Calculations

(1:08:03) (People's question) AI and Theoretical Physics

(1:11:49) (People's question) Computers in research

(1:13:04) (People's question) Physics pathway in India

(1:14:48) (People's question) String Theory Criticism

(1:18:47) (People's question) String Theory is the end?

(1:19:31) (People's question) Taking Ph.D. students

(1:20:01) (People's question) Advice for young scientists