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I will explain the statement of a generalization of Serre's conjecture on mod p Galois representations to the context of Hilbert modular forms. The emphasis will be on the recipe for the set of possible weights (formulated by Buzzard, Jarvis and myself, and partly proved by Gee) and its behavior in some special cases.

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Joint work with Yogi Erlangga and Kees Vuik.

Shifted Laplace preconditioners have attracted considerable attention as a technique to speed up convergence of iterative solution methods for the Helmholtz equation. In this paper we present a comprehensive spectral analysis of the Helmholtz operator preconditioned with a shifted Laplacian. Our analysis is valid under general conditions. The propagating medium can be heterogeneous, and the analysis also holds for different types of damping, including a radiation condition for the boundary of the computational domain. By combining the results of the spectral analysis of the preconditioned Helmholtz operator with an upper bound on the GMRES-residual norm we are able to provide an optimal value for the shift, and to explain the mesh-depency of the convergence of GMRES preconditioned with a shifted Laplacian. We illustrate our results with a seismic test problem.

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Many large-scale optimization problems arise in the context of the discretization of infinite dimensional applications. In such cases, the description of the finite-dimensional problem is not unique, but depends on the discretization used, resulting in a natural multi-level description. How can such a problem structure be exploited, in discretized problems or more generally? The talk will focus on discussing this issue in the context of unconstrained optimization and in relation with the classical multigrid approach to elliptic systems of partial differential equations. Both theoretical convergence properties of special purpose algorithms and their numerical performances will be discussed. Perspectives will also be given.

Collaboration with S. Gratton, A. Sartenaer and M. Weber.

There is a construction, due to Kontsevich, which produces cohomology classes in moduli spaces of Riemann surfaces from the initial data of an A-infinity algebra with an invariant inner product -- a kind of homotopy theoretic notion of a Frobenius algebra.

In this talk I will describe a version of this construction based on noncommutative symplectic geometry and use it to show that homotopy equivalent A-infinity algebras give rise to cohomologous classes. I will explain how the whole framework can be adapted to deal with Topological Conformal Field Theories in the sense of Costello, Kontsevich and Segal.

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