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The Aspen Center for Physics and the organizers of this workshop are committed to increasing the participation by physicists belonging to traditionally under-represented groups. In globular clusters, the presence of heavy stellar remnants can dramatically accelerate the dynamical evolution toward catastrophic core collapse. Dynamical interactions between compact objects and normal stars lead to very large formation rates for some of the most interesting interacting binary systems observed in the Galaxy. Similarly, in galactic nuclei, where the observational evidence for central supermassive black holes is overwhelming, there is not yet a theoretical consensus on how these systems form and evolve dynamically. The design of these future missions relies heavily on the use of our best current theoretical predictions for some of the new physical processes and regimes that will be probed.