Professor Anne Christine Davis | Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics

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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

Cosmological perturbations during radion stabilization

PR Ashcroft, C van de Bruck, AC Davis

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

(2005)

71,

023508

(doi: 10.1103/physrevd.71.023508)

Cosmological perturbations during radion stabilization

PR Ashcroft, C Van De Bruck, AC Davis

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

(2005)

71,

(doi: 10.1103/PhysRevD.71.023508)

Detecting dark energy in orbit: The cosmological chameleon

P Brax, C van de Bruck, AC Davis, J Khoury, A Weltman

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

(2004)

70,

123518

(doi: 10.1103/PhysRevD.70.123518)

Is the radion a chameleon?

P Brax, C van de Bruck, AC Davis

– Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics

(2004)

2004,

45

(doi: 10.1088/1475-7516/2004/11/004)

Moduli-space approximation for BPS brane worlds

GA Palma, AC Davis

– Physical Review D

(2004)

70,

5

(doi: 10.1103/PhysRevD.70.106003)

Brane world cosmology

P Brax, C van de Bruck, AC Davis

– Reports on Progress in Physics

(2004)

67,

2183

(doi: 10.1088/0034-4885/67/12/r02)

Chameleon Dark Energy

P Brax, C van de Bruck, AC Davis, J Khoury, A Weltman

– AIP Conference Proceedings

(2004)

736,

105

(doi: 10.1063/1.1835177)

Low energy branes, effective theory, and cosmology

GA Palma, AC Davis

– Physical Review D

(2004)

70,

064021

(doi: 10.1103/PhysRevD.70.064021)

D-Term Inflation without Cosmic Strings

J Urrestilla, A Achúcarro, AC Davis

– Physical review letters

(2004)

92,

251302

(doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.92.251302)

Inflation from tachyon condensation, largeNeffects

M Majumdar, AC Davis

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

(2004)

69,

103504

(doi: 10.1103/PhysRevD.69.103504)