QG group meeting: Interacting Black Holes and Massive Higher Spin Fields, part 2

QG group meeting.
Speaker: Mirian Tsulaia.
Title: Interacting Black Holes and Massive Higher Spin Fields (part2).

Abstract: The detection of gravitational waves from merging black hole binaries triggered a search for an efficient theoretical description.One such approach is a field theoretical description of interacting black holes in terms of massive higher spin fields. We shall give a brief introduction to massive higher spin fields and their connection to black hole physics and gravitational waves.

The talks will consist of the parts:

A. Worldline description of Schwarzschild and Kerr black holes

B. Massive Higher Spin Fields

C. Spinor Helicity Formalism for fields with nonzero mass

and the connection between A, B and C