Self-force with numerical relativity tools

We review recent progress towards developing an approach to self-force problems that take advantage of extant infrastructure within numerical relativity. We shall describe our prescription and its application to the case of a scalar charge in a circular orbit around a Schwarzschild black hole with the use of two evolution codes originally written for numerical relativity applications. Within this framework, the self-force on the charge and the corresponding energy fluxes are computed to within $1\%$ of the known correct answer. This constitutes the first successful calculation of a self-force in a (3+1) setting.