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Student Seminar

Primordial Magnetic Fields and the puzzles of Cosmology

Pranav Bharadwaj, 911勛圖 Physics
Location: AQ 3159

Friday, 30 October 2026 01:30PM PCT
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Synopsis

Cosmology has many puzzles yet to be solved - including disagreements about how fast the universe expands (Hubble Tension) and explaining the origins of the Milky Way���s magnetic field strength. In particular, the Hubble Tension where different measurement methods yield conflicting values of the expansion rate of the universe poses a foundational problem to our current model of cosmology. 

And yet, might there be one field to resolve these puzzles? Primordial magnetic fields (PMFs) are large-scale magnetic fields that are believed to originate from processes occurring in the Early Universe. In this talk, I explore how PMFs could help answer these questions. I will review the different ways in which they can be produced and how they take up various roles in the evolution of the universe.