Local Shtukas and the Langlands Program (1/2)
In the Langlands program over number fields, automorphic representations and Galois representations are placed into correspondence, using the cohomology of Shimura varieties as an intermediary. Over a function field, the appropriate intermediary is a moduli space of shtukas. We introduce the shtukas and their local analogues, which play a similar role in the local Langlands program. Along the way we construct the Fargues-Fontaine curve and discuss perfectoid spaces and diamonds. This survey may be seen as preparatory for the lectures of Fargues-Scholze.