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The first occurence of the ideas of renormalisation in physics is due to Green, around 1850, who used such methods to study the motion of a pendulum in a fluid. The same kind of methods was proposed by J. Oppenheimer around 1930, to take in account the so-called radiative corrections to the spectral lines of atoms. Like the previous attempts in classical electrodynamics, this approach led to unphysical infinite quantities. As it si well-known, the new methods of Bethe, Schwinger, Tomonaga, Feynman and Dyson solved in principle the problem of infinities around 1950. But a conceptual breakthrough occured ten years ago when A. Connes and D. Kreimer introduced Hopf algebraic methods in this game. We propose to explain our own verion of these methods, emphasizing a certain infinite-dimensional group, the so-called dressing group. A striking feature is the deep analogy with groups introduced by Grothendieck under the name of motivic Galois groups. These lectures shall begin with a short historical review, followed by a description of the standard calculations, and then we shall describe in detail the new methods.

We develop the theory of generalized bi-Hamiltonian reduction. Applying this theory to the loop algebra proved to be equivalent to a generalized Drinfeld-Sokolov reduction. This gives a way to construct new examples of algebraic Frobenius manifolds.

The talk concerns a correspondence between framed instantons on the one-point compactification of an affine complex surface $X$, and framed holomorphic bundles on a projective completion of $X$. This correspondence is known for $X$ the affine plane (Donaldson) and $X$ the affine plane blown up at a point (King). After reviewing these cases, I will discuss possible generalizations (basically, when the projective completion is a rational surface). I will also spend some words on instanton countings on these surfaces. Physically this corresponds to studying the Nekrasov partition function for topological super Yang-Mills theories on $X$.