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Professor Anne Christine Davis

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

Local and nonlocal defect-mediated electroweak baryogenesis.
R Brandenberger, AC Davis, T Prokopec, M Trodden
– Physical Review D
(1996)
53,
4257
(doi: 10.1103/PhysRevD.53.4257)
The Impossibility of Baryogenesis at a Second Order Electroweak Phase Transition
T Prokopec, R Brandenberger, A-C Davis
(1996)
(link to publication)
Embedded defects and symmetry breaking in flipped SU(5)
AC Davis, NF Lepora
– Phys Rev D Part Fields
(1995)
52,
7265
(doi: 10.1103/PhysRevD.52.7265)
Constraining supersymmetric SO(10) models through cosmology.
R Jeannerot, AC Davis
– Physical Review D
(1995)
52,
7220
(doi: 10.1103/PhysRevD.52.7220)
The stability of primordial magnetic fields produced by phase transitions
AP MARTIN, AC DAVIS
– Physics Letters B
(1995)
360,
71
(doi: 10.1016/0370-2693(95)01120-f)
Cosmic strings are current-carrying
AC DAVIS, P PETER
– Physics Letters B
(1995)
358,
197
(doi: 10.1016/0370-2693(95)00966-O)
EVOLUTION OF FIELDS IN A 2ND-ORDER PHASE-TRANSITION
A Martin, AC Davis
– Phys Rev D Part Fields
(1995)
52,
3298
(doi: 10.1103/physrevd.52.3298)
SCATTERING OFF AN SO(10) COSMIC-STRING
AC Davis, R Jeannerot
– Physical review. D, Particles and fields
(1995)
52,
1944
(doi: 10.1103/physrevd.52.1944)
Nucleosynthesis constraints on defect-mediated electroweak baryogenesis
R BRANDENBERGER, AC DAVIS, MJ REES
– Physics Letters B
(1995)
349,
329
(doi: 10.1016/0370-2693(95)00272-M)
Particle physics models, topological defects and electroweak baryogenesis
M TRODDEN, AC DAVIS, R BRANDENBERGER
– Physics Letters B
(1995)
349,
131
(doi: 10.1016/0370-2693(95)00214-6)
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Research Groups

High Energy Physics
Relativity and Gravitation

Email

A.C.Davis@damtp.cam.ac.uk

Room

B2.18

Telephone

01223 337878

Personal homepage

http://www.damtp.cam.ac.uk/user/acd/

Study at Cambridge

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