Harald Pfeiffer
Abstract:
The last few years have seen astonishing progress in the numerical simulation of the inspiral and merger of two black holes. The results of these simulations are of high importance to gravitational wave detectors searching for binary black holes, and to elucidate masses and spins of the merging black holes. Numerical simulations also help to understand Einstein's equations in the genuinely nonlinear and dynamic situations. This talk gives an overview of recent advances in black hole simulations and attempts to convey a flavor of the variety of problems being attacked by such simulations. Time permitting, I will also cover some recent advances in the simulations of binary neutron stars and black hole—neutron star binaries.