USING NUMERICAL RELATIVITY TO EXPLORE FUNDAMENTAL PHYSICS AND ASTROPHYSICS

by Luciano Rezzolla (Albert Einstein Institute, Max-Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics, Potsdam, Germany)

Monday 10 Dec 2012, 14:30 → 16:00 Europe/Rome

Aula Conversi (Dipartimento di Fisica - Ed. G. Marconi)

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.