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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

The quantum mechanics of the supersymmetric nonlinear σ-model
AC DAVIS, AJ MACFARLANE, PC POPAT, JW VANHOLTEN
– Journal of Physics A: General Physics
(1999)
17,
2945
Deep inelastic structure functions and the neutron charge radius
AC DAVIS
– Journal of Physics G: Nuclear Physics
(1999)
4,
L155
The multichannel Blankenbecler-Sugar equation in low-energy kaon-nucleon scattering
JW ALCOCK, WN COTTINGHAM, AC DAVIS
– Journal of Physics G Nuclear Physics
(1999)
4,
323
Cosmic strings in realistic particle physics theories and baryogenesis
AC Davis
– International Journal of Theoretical Physics
(1999)
38,
2867
Examples of embedded defects (in particle physics and condensed matter)
NF Lepora, AC Davis
– Physical Review D
(1998)
5812,
125028
Embedded vortices
NF Lepora, AC Davis
– Physical Review D
(1998)
5812,
125027
The Chern-Simons number as an order parameter: Classical sphaleron transitions for SU( 2)-Higgs field theories for mH ≈ 120 GeV
HP Shanahan, AC Davis
– Physics Letters B
(1998)
431,
135
Cosmic strings in low mass Higgs cosmology
WB Perkins, AC Davis
– Physics Letters B
(1998)
428,
254
Cosmic strings, zero modes, and supersymmetry breaking in non-Abelian N=1 gauge theories
SC Davis, AC Davis, M Trodden
– Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology
(1998)
57,
5184
Friction domination with superconducting strings
K Dimopoulos, AC Davis
– Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology
(1998)
57,
692
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Research Groups

High Energy Physics
Relativity and Gravitation

Room

B2.18

Telephone

01223 337878