Title: Gravitational waves from inspiraling binary black holes

Affiliation: Institut d'Astrophysique de Paris (CNRS) and Caltech

Abstract: Binary black holes are the most promising candidate sources for 
the first generation of earth-based interferometric gravitational-wave 
detectors. After an introduction to gravitational-wave research,
we review and discuss the state-of-the-art analytic techniques developed 
during the last years to describe the late dynamical evolution of those 
systems and to calculate theoretical waveforms to be used as templates 
in the search for gravitational waves.