{"id":13402,"date":"2023-02-26T11:10:43","date_gmt":"2023-02-26T16:10:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/?p=13402"},"modified":"2023-02-26T11:10:43","modified_gmt":"2023-02-26T16:10:43","slug":"physics-with-witten","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/?p=13402","title":{"rendered":"Physics With Witten"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I just noticed that last semester Edward Witten was teaching Physics 539 at Princeton, a graduate topics course.  Since he&#8217;s now past the age of 70, at the IAS he is officially retired and an emeritus professor (the IAS is the only place I know of in the US with retirement at 70, presumably since it is a non-teaching institution).  I don&#8217;t know if there are other times Witten has been teaching courses at the university since his move to the IAS in 1987. <\/p>\n<p>Videos of the first few lectures are on Youtube <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@witten342\">here<\/a>, problem sets on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ias.edu\/sns\/physics-539\">this web-page<\/a>.  It seems like the course started out covering issues with causality in general relativity, following <a href=\"https:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/1901.03928\">these lecture notes<\/a>, then later moved on to topics in quantum information theory.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just noticed that last semester Edward Witten was teaching Physics 539 at Princeton, a graduate topics course. Since he&#8217;s now past the age of 70, at the IAS he is officially retired and an emeritus professor (the IAS is &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/?p=13402\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13402","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13402","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13402"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13402\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13404,"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13402\/revisions\/13404"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}