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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

Monopole mass in the three-dimensional Georgi-Glashow model
AC Davis, A Hart, TWB Kibble, A Rajantie
– Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology
(2002)
65,
125008
(doi: 10.1103/physrevd.65.125008)
Four-dimensional gravity from singular spaces
P Brax, C van de Bruck, AC Davis, CS Rhodes
– Physical Review D
(2002)
65,
121501
(doi: 10.1103/PhysRevD.65.121501)
Microwave background constraints on decaying defects
RH Brandenberger, B Carter, AC Davis
– Physics Letters B
(2002)
534,
1
(doi: 10.1016/S0370-2693(02)01675-1)
Thermal stabilization of superconducting sigma strings and their drum vortons
B Carter, RH Brandenberger, AC Davis
– Physical Review D
(2002)
65,
103520
(doi: 10.1103/physrevd.65.103520)
Wave function of the radion with a bulk scalar field
P Brax, C van de Bruck, AC Davis, CS Rhodes
– Physics Letters, Section B: Nuclear, Elementary Particle and High-Energy Physics
(2002)
531,
135
(doi: 10.1016/S0370-2693(02)01360-6)
Cosmological creation of D-branes and anti-D-branes
M Majumdar, AC Davis
– Journal of High Energy Physics
(2002)
2002,
056
(doi: 10.1088/1126-6708/2002/03/056)
Natural magnetogenesis from inflation
K Dimopoulos, T Prokopec, O Tornkvist, AC Davis
– Physical Review D
(2002)
65,
063505
(doi: 10.1103/physrevd.65.063505)
Dynamics and properties of chiral cosmic strings
M Pickles, AC Davis
– Physics Letters B
(2001)
520,
345
(doi: 10.1016/s0370-2693(01)01185-6)
Brane-world cosmology, bulk scalars and perturbations
P Brax, CV de Bruck, AC Davis
– Journal of High Energy Physics
(2001)
5,
1
(doi: 10.1088/1126-6708/2001/10/026)
Brane cosmology and naked singularities
P Brax, AC Davis
– Physics Letters, Section B: Nuclear, Elementary Particle and High-Energy Physics
(2001)
513,
156
(doi: 10.1016/S0370-2693(01)00734-1)
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Research Group

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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