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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

Testing chameleon theories with light propagating through a magnetic field
P Brax, CV de Bruck, AC Davis, DF Mota, D Shaw
– Physical Review D
(2007)
76,
085010
(doi: 10.1103/PhysRevD.76.085010)
Warping and F-term uplifting
P Brax, AC Davis, SC Davis, R Jeannerot, M Postma
– Journal of High Energy Physics
(2007)
2007,
125
(doi: 10.1088/1126-6708/2007/09/125)
Compatibility of the chameleon-field model with fifth-force experiments, cosmology, and PVLAS and CAST results.
P Brax, C van de Bruck, A-C Davis
– Phys Rev Lett
(2007)
99,
121103
(doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.99.121103)
P-term potentials from 4-D supergravity
C Burrage, AC Davis
– Journal of High Energy Physics
(2007)
2007,
086
(doi: 10.1088/1126-6708/2007/06/086)
Moduli corrections to D-term inflation
P Brax, C van de Bruck, AC Davis, SC Davis, R Jeannerot, M Postma
– Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics
(2007)
2007,
026
(doi: 10.1088/1475-7516/2007/01/026)
Coupling hybrid inflation to moduli
P Brax, C van de Bruck, AC Davis, SC Davis
– Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics
(2006)
2006,
012
(doi: 10.1088/1475-7516/2006/09/012)
Cosmic D-strings and vortons in supergravity
P Brax, C van de Bruck, AC Davis, SC Davis
– Physics Letters, Section B: Nuclear, Elementary Particle and High-Energy Physics
(2006)
640,
7
(doi: 10.1016/j.physletb.2006.07.034)
Fermionic zero modes of supergravity cosmic strings
P Brax, C van de Bruck, AC Davis, SC Davis
– Journal of High Energy Physics
(2006)
2006,
030
(doi: 10.1088/1126-6708/2006/06/030)
Boundary inflation and the WMAP data
C Ringeval, P Brax, C van de Bruck, AC Davis
– Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology
(2006)
73,
064035
(doi: 10.1103/physrevd.73.064035)
Small scale structure formation in chameleon cosmology
P Brax, C van de Bruck, AC Davis, AM Green
– Physics Letters B
(2006)
633,
441
(doi: 10.1016/j.physletb.2005.12.055)
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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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