Prof. Britto will work with colleagues Prof. Francis Brown, University of Oxford; Prof. Axel Kleinschmidt, MPI for Gravitational Physics, Potsdam; and Prof. Oliver Schlotterer, Uppsala University, Sweden on their Mathematics of Scattering Amplitudes (MaScamp) project. The team will tackle longstanding computational bottlenecks and push the boundaries of numerous areas of theoretical physics, such as quantum field theory, gravity and string theory, as well as inspiring new mathematical research. 

“Scattering amplitudes” are used to produce theoretical predictions necessary in many areas of physics, but the process for deriving them is currently labour intensive and difficult to compute. In addition, the team will develop a widely applicable computer software implementation that will enable physicists to make previously inaccessible predictions for present and future experiments.