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Next Seminar:

Monday, 1 December 2025, 14:30 in P8445B

Prof. Kevork Abazajian (UC Irvine)

Successes and challenges in neutrino cosmology and structure formation

Cosmology has delivered on the promise of high sensitivity to neutrino properties of their total mass and number, with mass measurements now at precisions more than an order of magnitude better than from the laboratory. Cosmic microwave background observations, large scale structure surveys, baryon acoustic oscillation measures, and Type Ia supernovae surveys all inform us of cosmological matter and energy content and measure the clustering of matter, and provide these constraints. I will give an overview of the physics of these sensitivities to neutrino properties in the standard picture, along with their model dependencies. Significant tensions exist in several key observations, including the local Hubble expansion rate. These have surprising implications for neutrinos. I will also discuss the apparent anomalous massive galaxies discovered by JWST and their consequences for structure formation.

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Upcoming Seminars:

2025-12-01 14:30 in P8445B - Kevork Abazajian (UC Irvine): Successes and challenges in neutrino cosmology and structure formation

Past Seminars:

2025-11-24 15:30 in P8445B - Gopolang Mohlabeng (SFU): Searching for light accelerated dark matter
2025-11-17 14:30 in P8445B - Afif Omar (UVic): Probing Hadronic Dark Matter Annihilation with Big Bang Nucleosynthesis
2025-11-10 14:30 in P8445B - Qinrui Liu (SFU): High-energy cosmic neutrinos: A unique window to the universe
2025-10-27 14:30 in SSB7109 - Levon Pogosian (SFU): A theorist's perspective on cosmological tensions
2025-10-20 14:30 in P8445B - Meng-Xiang Lin (SFU): Cosmological tensions and interactions between dark matter and dark energy
2025-10-10 14:30 in AQ3149 - Francis Halzen (University of Wisconsin-Madison): IceCube: The first decade of neutrino astronomy (physics colloquium)

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