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Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics

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

Screened scalar fields in hydrogen and muonium
P Brax, AC Davis, B Elder
– Physical Review D
(2023)
107,
044008
The eccentricity distribution of wide binaries
D Benisty, NW Evans, AC Davis
– Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society: Letters
(2022)
518,
L51
Dark energy interactions near the Galactic Center
D Benisty, AC Davis
– Physical Review D
(2022)
105,
024052
Scalar fields near compact objects: resummation versus UV completion
AC Davis, S Melville
– Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics
(2021)
2021,
012
Spin-orbit effects for compact binaries in scalar-tensor gravity
P Brax, AC Davis, S Melville, LK Wong
– Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics
(2021)
2021,
075
Direct detection of dark energy: The XENON1T excess and future prospects
S Vagnozzi, L Visinelli, P Brax, AC Davis, J Sakstein
– Physical Review D
(2021)
104,
063023
Spin precession as a new window into disformal scalar fields
P Brax, AC Davis, S Melville, LK Wong
– Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics
(2021)
2021,
001
On the time evolution of cosmological correlators
S Céspedes, AC Davis, S Melville
– Journal of High Energy Physics
(2021)
2021,
12
Stellar streams in chameleon gravity
AP Naik, NW Evans, E Puchwein, H Zhao, AC Davis
– Physical Review D
(2020)
102,
084066
Novel screening with two bodies: Summing the ladder in disformal scalar-tensor theories
AC Davis, S Melville
– Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics
(2020)
2020,
013
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Research Groups

High Energy Physics
Relativity and Gravitation

Room

B2.18

Telephone

01223 337878