The 10 Steps

0. Motivate

1. Understand black holes & gravity waves

2. Learn the Einstein field equations

3. Convert eqns. To eqns. We evolve numerically

4. Model these equations on a computer

5. Modeling black holes

6. Understand the inner boundary

7. Understand the outer boundary

8. Putting it together

9. Model the elliptic pde’s

10. Build computational infrastructure

To really model 2 black holes, we better understand the “real” problems!!

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