The CCRG has selected five science interdisciplinary, but focused, themes where our current expertise and major new investments will lead to significant advances and discoveries in gravitational wave and relativistic astrophysics:

• Galactic Dynamics and N-body simulation, e.g. the study of formation and evolution of star clusters and active galactic nuclei containing supermassive black holes, and galaxy mergers.
• Numerical Relativity (NR) and gravitational wave source modeling, e.g. the  modeling and simulation of interacting astrophysical compact objects, such as black-hole and/or neutron star binaries, and theoretical predictions and analysis of gravitational wave signals from these sources.
• General Relativistic Magneto-Hydrodynamics (GRMHD) simulation, e.g. the modeling and simulation of binary systems containing neutron stars as possible sources of gamma ray bursts,  and the modeling and simulation of active galactic nuclei (AGN) including accretion disks and relativistic jets around supermassive black holes.
  
• Gravitational Wave (GW) data analysis and its interplay with astrophysical source simulation, e.g. how the results of source simulations of compact objects can be used to design data analyses that extract relevant information from GW detectors data such as the Laser Interferometer Gravitational Wave Observatory (LIGO) and the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA).
• Scientific Visualization, e.g. the development of new visualizations techniques to visualize complex data sets generated by astrophysical and GW simulations.

The following is a link to our most recent publications. Research at the Center is supported by several research grants from the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA).