Computational science is facing several major challenges with rapidly changing highly complex heterogeneous computer architectures. To meet these challenges and yield fast and efficient performance, solvers need to be easily portable. Algebraic multigrid (AMG) methods have great potential to achieve good performance, since they have shown excellent numerical scalability for a variety of problems. However, their implementation on emerging computer architectures, which favor structure, presents new challenges. To face these difficulties, we have considered modularization of AMG, that is breaking AMG components into smaller kernels to improve portability as well as the development of new algorithms to replace components that are not suitable for GPUs. Another way to achieve performance on accelerators is to increase structure in algorithms. This talk will discuss new algorithmic developments, including a new class of interpolation operators that consists of simple matrix operations for unstructured AMG and efforts to develop a semi-structured AMG method.

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The bubble transform was a concept introduced by Richard Falk and me in a paper published in The Foundations of Computational Mathematics in 2016. From a simplicial mesh of a bounded domain in $R^n$ we constructed a map which decomposes scalar valued functions into a sum of local bubbles supported on appropriate macroelements.The construction is done without reference to any finite element space, but has the property that the standard continuous piecewise polynomial spaces are invariant. Furthermore, the transform is bounded in $L^2$ and $H^1$, and as a consequence we obtained a new tool for the understanding of finite element spaces of arbitrary polynomial order. The purpose of this talk is to review the previous results, and to discuss how to generalize the construction to differential forms such that the corresponding properties hold. In particular, the generalized transform will be defined such that it commutes with the exterior derivative.

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The classical Turán problem asks: given a graph $H$, how many edges can an $4n$-vertex graph have while containing no isomorphic copy of $H$? By viewing $(k+1)$-uniform hypergraphs as $k$-dimensional simplicial complexes, we can ask a topological version (first posed by Nati Linial): given a $k$-dimensional simplicial complex $S$, how many facets can an $n$-vertex $k$-dimensional simplicial complex have while containing no homeomorphic copy of $S$? Until recently, little was known for $k > 2$. In this talk, we give an answer for general $k$, by way of dependent random choice and the combinatorial notion of a trace-bounded hypergraph. Joint work with Jason Long and Bhargav Narayanan.

Introduced by Fomin and Zelevinsky in 2002, cluster algebras have become ubiquitous in algebra, combinatorics and geometry. In this talk, I'll introduce the notion of a cluster algebra and present the approach of Kang-Kashiwara-Kim-Oh to categorify a large class of them arising from quantum groups. Time allowing, I will explain some recent developments related to the coherent Satake category.

Point counting on definable sets in non-archimedean settings has many faces. For sets living in Q_p^n, one can count actual rational points of bounded height, but for sets in C((t))^n, one rather "counts" the polynomials in t of bounded degree. What if the latter is of infinite cardinality? We treat three settings, each with completely different behaviour for point counting : 1) the setting of subanalytic sets, where we show finiteness of point counting but growth can be aribitrarily fast with the degree in t ; 2) the setting of Pfaffian sets, which is new in the non-archimedean world and for which we show an analogue of Wilkie's conjecture in all dimensions; 3) the Hensel minimal setting, which is most general and where finiteness starts to fail, even for definable transcendental curves! In this infinite case, one bounds the dimension rather than the (infinite) cardinality. This represents joint work with Binyamini, Novikov, with Halupczok, Rideau, Vermeulen, and separate work by Cantoral-Farfan, Nguyen, Vermeulen.

 I will be reviewing our recent article arXiv:2101.02218 where we propose a simple method for detecting global (a.k.a. non-perturbative) anomalies for generic quantum field theories. The basic idea is to study how the symmetries are realized on the Hilbert space of the theory. I will present several elementary examples where everything can be solved explicitly. After that, we will use these results to make non-trivial predictions about strongly interacting theories.