What Are Ed Witten's Recent Pedagogic Lectures on Physics?

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Ed Witten is famous on his research of speculative theories such as string theory. But recently he has written several pedagogic lectures on "normal" physics, that is on several different physics topics that are not speculative at all. Even though these lectures are not really "books", they are written at a level suitable for graduate textbooks. Those that I am aware of are:

Three Lectures On Topological Phases Of Matter
http://de.arxiv.org/abs/1510.07698

Notes on Some Entanglement Properties of Quantum Field Theory
http://de.arxiv.org/abs/1803.04993

A Mini-Introduction To Information Theory
http://de.arxiv.org/abs/1805.11965

Light Rays, Singularities, and All That
http://de.arxiv.org/abs/1901.03928
 
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