As a starting point, an important link is established between Brumer's conjecture and the Brumer-Stark conjecture which allows one to translate recent progress on the former into new results on the latter. For example, if K/F is an abelian extension of relative degree 2p, p an odd prime, we prove the l-part of the Brumer-Stark conjecture for all odd primes l = p with F belonging to a wide class of base fields. In the same setting, we study the 2-part and p-part of Brumer-Stark with no special

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... striction on F and are left with only two well-defined specific classes of extensions that elude proof. Extensive computations were carried out within these two classes and a complete numerical proof of the Brumer-Stark conjecture was obtained in all cases.