Pablo Vives MatasanResearch StudentCentre: Centre for Theoretical PhysicsEmail: p.vivesmatasan@qmul.ac.ukRoom Number: G.O Jones, 602ProfilePublicationsProfileProject Title: Classical general relativity and gravitational waves from scattering amplitudes Supervisor: Andreas Brandhuber, Gabriele Travaglini Content: The detection of gravitational waves has created a need for efficient, high precision theoretical predictions to compare with experimental data. Unfortunately, calculations of gravitational observables can become very complex due to the non-linear nature of gravity. On the other hand, over the past century many powerful tools in Quantum Field Theory have been developed leading to the calculation of observable quantities with incredible accuracy. The BCJ double copy provides a bridge between these two areas of physics: Yang-Mills theory describing the scattering of subnuclear particles, and gravity governing the motion of black holes. Taking the so-called classical limit of the scattering amplitudes we obtain, we can probe many interesting aspects of gravity. For example, we can examine the effect of spin on black hole scattering or higher derivative modifications to General Relativity. Funding: Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC)ResearchPublications