{"id":275,"date":"2005-10-08T12:00:07","date_gmt":"2005-10-08T16:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/?p=275"},"modified":"2005-11-28T17:20:41","modified_gmt":"2005-11-28T22:20:41","slug":"notes-for-witten-lecture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/?p=275","title":{"rendered":"Notes for Witten Lecture"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Witten gave a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/?p=237\">lecture on the beach at Stony Brook<\/a> on the topic of gauge theory and the Langlands program two months ago, and <a href=\"http:\/\/insti.physics.sunysb.edu\/itp\/conf\/simonswork3\/talks\/Witten.pdf\">lecture notes<\/a> are now available.  Lubos Motl has a <a href=\"http:\/\/motls.blogspot.com\/2005\/10\/langlands-duality.html\">posting<\/a> about this, where he promotes the idea that people should stop referring to the &#8220;Langlands Program&#8221; and just refer to &#8220;Langlands duality&#8221;.  Somehow I suspect that mathematicians will keep doing what they have always done, using &#8220;program&#8221; to refer to the general, well, program, and &#8220;duality&#8221; to refer to the more specific, well, duality, that one would like to prove as part of the program. <\/p>\n<p>An <a href=\"http:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/?p=122\">earlier posting<\/a> of mine contains a lot of relevant links, to which should be added the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.math.washington.edu\/~agbc\/lect\/benzviX.pdf\">notes from David Ben-Zvi&#8217;s talk<\/a> in Seattle this summer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Witten gave a lecture on the beach at Stony Brook on the topic of gauge theory and the Langlands program two months ago, and lecture notes are now available. Lubos Motl has a posting about this, where he promotes the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/?p=275\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","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_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-275","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\/275","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=275"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}