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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

Nonabelian Aharonov-Bohm baryon decay catalysis
L Perivolaropoulos, A Matheson, AC Davis, RH Brandenberger
– Physics Letters B
(1990)
245,
556
(doi: 10.1016/0370-2693(90)90689-4)
Inflation and cosmic strings in models with dynamical symmetry breaking
AM MATHESON, RD BALL, AC DAVIS, RH BRANDENBERGER
– Nuclear Physics, Section B
(1989)
328,
223
(doi: 10.1016/0550-3213(89)90102-8)
Dissolving of mesons and soliton baryons in 2-dimensional gauge theories
AC DAVIS, AM MATHESON
– Zeitschrift für Physik C Particles and Fields
(1989)
42,
627
(doi: 10.1007/BF01557668)
Mass generation and vacuum structure of the Gross-Neveu model
MG MITCHARD, AC DAVIS, AJ MACFARLANE
– Nuclear Physics B
(1989)
325,
470
(doi: 10.1016/0550-3213(89)90462-8)
Temperature effects in a model of chiral-symmetry breaking.
AC Davis, AM Matheson
– Physical Review D
(1989)
40,
2373
(doi: 10.1103/physrevd.40.2373)
The Callan-Rubakov effect. A classical approach
AC DAVIS, WB PERKINS
– Physics Letters B
(1989)
228,
37
(doi: 10.1016/0370-2693(89)90521-2)
Cosmic string catalysis of skyrmion decay
R GREGORY, AC DAVIS, R BRANDENBERGER
– Nuclear Physics, Section B
(1989)
323,
187
(doi: 10.1016/0550-3213(89)90593-2)
NON-PERTURBATIVE EFFECTS IN THE SUPERSYMMETRIC O(N + 1) SIGMA MODEL
JA GRACEY, AJ MACFARLANE, AC DAVIS
– Nuclear Physics, Section B
(1989)
319,
439
(doi: 10.1016/0550-3213(89)90085-0)
Mass generation and renormalization of supersymmetric sigma-models and some other two-dimensional theories
AC DAVIS, JA GRACEY, AJ MACFARLANE, MG MITCHARD
– Nuclear Physics B
(1989)
314,
439
(doi: 10.1016/0550-3213(89)90161-2)
Cosmic strings and baryogenesis
RH BRANDENBERGER, AC DAVIS, AM MATHESON
– Physics Letters B
(1989)
218,
304
(doi: 10.1016/0370-2693(89)91586-4)
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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/

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