Revisiting NCQED and scattering amplitudes

Research progresses on the noncommutative gauge theories on the Moyal space are discussed in this minireview. We first present a brief overview on the development of gauge theories on Moyal space, with an emphasis on the role of Seiberg-Witten maps. Two important relations induced by reversible Seiberg-Witten maps, namely the formal equivalence of on-shell DeWitt background field effective action in general and explicit identical relation between tree level scattering amplituded in noncommutative quantum electrodynamics (NCQED), are described in some details. We then proceed to the properties of the tree level two-by-two scattering amplitudes in NCQED, including a forward scattering singularity in NCQED Compton scattering. After covering some phenomenological perspectives of NCYM based models, outlooks into the future are given at the end.