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.

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/

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(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