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This summer has seen a flurry of activity in particle-vortex duality and, more generally, in non-supersymmetric dualities in three spacetime dimensions. Much of this work has been directly related to the properties of so-called topological quantum matter and gapped phases of matter. In this talk, I will give a more-or-less pedagogical introduction to these ideas, beginning with the sine-Gordon/massive Thirring correspondence and building toward our current understanding of the 3-dimensional web of dualities.