This is the first in a series of two talks, the second being delivered by Pablo Laguna. We will see that in spite of the limited range of applicability, attractive physical conclusions can be reached in some situations. Pablo will in the next talk describe issues arising in the full numerical simulation of black hole collisions Audio Click here for full streaming audio of the talk. In order to listen to the audio, you will need sound hardware and the RealAudio plugin from RealNetworks .
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