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GR: Fachverband Gravitation und Relativitätstheorie

GR 9: Hauptvorträge Donnerstag: Klassische Allgemeine Relativitätstheorie

GR 9.1: Invited Talk

Thursday, March 31, 2011, 14:00–14:45, 20.40: 101

Using numerical relativity to explore fundamental physics and astrophysics — •Luciano Rezzolla — Albert Einstein Institute, MPI for Gravitational Physics, Potsdam

Recent years have seen a major progress in numerical relativity and the solution of the simplest and yet among the most challenging problems in classical general relativity: that of the evolution of two objects interacting only gravitationally. I will review the results obtained so far when modelling binaries of black holes or of neutron stars and also discuss the impact these studies have in detection of gravitational-waves, in astrophysics, and in our understanding of general relativity.