Professor Anne Christine Davis | Relativity and Gravitation Group

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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

Supersymmetron

P Brax, AC Davis

– Physics Letters, Section B: Nuclear, Elementary Particle and High-Energy Physics

(2012)

707,

1

(doi: 10.1016/j.physletb.2011.11.060)

Modified gravity and the CMB

P Brax, AC Davis

– Physical Review D

(2012)

85,

023513

(doi: 10.1103/physrevd.85.023513)

Supersymmetron

P Brax, A-C Davis

– Physics Letters B

(2012)

707,

1

(doi: 10.1016/j.physletb.2011.11.060)

Linear growth of structure in the symmetron model

P Brax, C van de Bruck, AC Davis, BJ Li, B Schmauch, DJ Shaw

– Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology

(2011)

84,

123524

(doi: 10.1103/physrevd.84.123524)

Chameleon gravity, electrostatics, and kinematics in the outer galaxy

R Pourhasan, N Afshordi, RB Mann, AC Davis

– Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics

(2011)

2011,

005

(doi: 10.1088/1475-7516/2011/12/005)

Defrosting in an emergent Galileon cosmology

LP Levasseur, R Brandenberger, AC Davis

– Physical Review D

(2011)

84,

103512

(doi: 10.1103/PhysRevD.84.103512)

Laboratory tests of the Galileon

P Brax, C Burrage, AC Davis

– Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics

(2011)

2011,

020

(doi: 10.1088/1475-7516/2011/09/020)

Nonlinear structure formation with the environmentally dependent dilaton

P Brax, C van de Bruck, AC Davis, BJ Li, DJ Shaw

– Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology

(2011)

83,

104026

(doi: 10.1103/physrevd.83.104026)

Anomalous coupling of scalars to gauge fields

P Brax, C Burrage, AC Davis, D Seery, A Weltman

– Physics Letters B

(2011)

699,

5

(doi: 10.1016/j.physletb.2011.03.047)

Chameleonic contribution to the Sunyaev-Zel’dovich radial profile of the Coma cluster

AC Davis, CAO Schelpe, DJ Shaw

– Physical Review D

(2011)

83,

044006

(doi: 10.1103/physrevd.83.044006)