NEW DEVELOPMENTS IN NUMERICAL RELATIVITY

Numerical Relativity is gaining momentum and acceptance as a tool for investigating the both the Einstein equations themselves, and their ap plication to astrophysics. While this research field is not new, there are many reasons to believe that it is achieving a certain maturity t hat will make it useful to the larger relativity and astrophysics comm unities. I touch on a number of new developments in numerical relativi ty, including new collaborations, explosive growth in computer power, new formulations of the Einstein equations, tools for analysis in nume rical studies, and applications to 2D and 3D black hole spacetimes.