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

Dilaton and modified gravity

P Brax, C van de Bruck, AC Davis, D Shaw

– Physical Review D

(2010)

82,

063519

(doi: 10.1103/physrevd.82.063519)

Preheating in Dirac-Born-Infeld inflation

N Bouatta, AC Davis, RH Ribeiro, D Seery

– Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics

(2010)

2010,

011

(doi: 10.1088/1475-7516/2010/09/011)

Tuning the Mass of Chameleon Fields in Casimir Force Experiments

P Brax, C van de Bruck, AC Davis, DJ Shaw, D Iannuzzi

– Physical Review Letters

(2010)

104,

241101

(doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.104.241101)

Higgs production as a probe of chameleon dark energy

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

– Physical Review D

(2010)

81,

103524

(doi: 10.1103/physrevd.81.103524)

Modifying gravity at low redshift

P Brax, C van de Bruck, AC Davis, D Shaw

– Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics

(2010)

2010,

032

(doi: 10.1088/1475-7516/2010/04/032)

Collider constraints on interactions of dark energy with the Standard Model

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

– Journal of High Energy Physics

(2009)

2009,

128

(doi: 10.1088/1126-6708/2009/09/128)

Decoupling dark energy from matter

P Brax, C van de Bruck, AC Davis, J Martin

– Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics

(2009)

2009,

032

(doi: 10.1088/1475-7516/2009/09/032)

Effect of a chameleon scalar field on the cosmic microwave background

AC Davis, CAO Schelpe, DJ Shaw

– Physical Review D

(2009)

80,

064016

(doi: 10.1103/physrevd.80.064016)

Active galactic nuclei shed light on axionlike particles.

C Burrage, A-C Davis, DJ Shaw

– Physical review letters

(2009)

102,

201101

(doi: 10.1103/physrevlett.102.201101)

Detecting chameleons: The astronomical polarization produced by chameleonlike scalar fields

C Burrage, AC Davis, DJ Shaw

– Physical Review D

(2009)

79,

044028

(doi: 10.1103/physrevd.79.044028)