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Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics

Career

           2014 --     University Gender Equality Champion for STEMM subjects

           2013---     Professor of Mathematical Physics (1967), DAMTP, Cambridge University

  • 2002-2013 Professor of Theoretical Physics, DAMTP, Cambridge University
  • 1996-2000 Reader in Theoretical Physics DAMTP
  • 1995-1996 ADR -- DAMTP
  • 1988-1995 College Teaching Officer, Kings College Cambridge
  • 1983-1988 Research Council Advanced Fellow, DAMTP Cambridge University
  • 1982-1983 Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, USA
  • 1980-1982 Fellow, Theory Division, CERN, Geneva
  • 1978-1980 Postdoctoral research associate in theoretical physics, Blackett Physics Laboratory Imperial College, London
  • 1976-1978 Postdoctoral research associate in theoretical physics, Mathematics Department, Durham University

Research

Anne Davis' recent research is in Particle Cosmology. Her current work is on modified gravity theories, such as the chameleon model and related scalar-tensor theories of gravity. She has studied the full cosmological evolution of the chameleon, considered solar system constraints, laboratory constraints and cosmological constrains. She has shown that chameleons could be detected in future Casimir force type experiments. She has also worked on inflation and extra-dimensional theories.

Selected Publications

http://www-spires.dur.ac.uk/cgi-bin/spiface/hep/www?rawcmd=find+a+davis%2C+a.c.&FORMAT=WWW&SEQUENCE=

 Teaching

Principles of Quantum Mechanics

Below is the link to some lectures notes for this course with acknowledgement to my predecessors, Dr J.M. Evans and Prof R.R. Horgan

 

 www.damtp.cam.ac.uk/user/acd/

 

Publications

CMB implications of multi-field axio-dilaton cosmology
A Smith, M Mylova, P Brax, C van de Bruck, CP Burgess, AC Davis
– Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics
(2024)
2024,
058
Solar chameleons: Novel channels
T O'Shea, AC Davis, M Giannotti, S Vagnozzi, L Visinelli, JK Vogel
– Physical Review D
(2024)
110,
063027
On the IR divergences in de Sitter space: loops, resummation and the semi-classical wavefunction
S Céspedes, AC Davis, DG Wang
– Journal of High Energy Physics
(2024)
2024,
4
Orbital precession and hidden symmetries in scalar-tensor theories
AC Davis, S Melville
– Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics
(2023)
2023,
034
Multiscale constraints on scalar-field couplings to matter: The geodetic and frame-dragging effects
D Benisty, P Brax, AC Davis
– Physical Review D
(2023)
108,
063031
Constraining Dark Energy from the Local Group Dynamics
D Benisty, AC Davis, NW Evans
– The Astrophysical Journal Letters
(2023)
953,
l2
Constraining Dark Energy from Local Group dynamics
D Benisty, A-C Davis, NW Evans
(2023)
Casimir tests of scalar-tensor theories
P Brax, AC Davis, B Elder
– Physical Review D
(2023)
107,
084025
Stringent pulsar timing bounds on light scalar couplings to matter
D Benisty, P Brax, AC Davis
– Physical Review D
(2023)
107,
064049
Screened scalar fields in hydrogen and muonium
P Brax, AC Davis, B Elder
– Physical Review D
(2023)
107,
044008
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Research Groups

High Energy Physics
Relativity and Gravitation

Room

B2.18

Telephone

01223 337878