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Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics

Professor Anthony David Challinor

Career

  • 2017-present Professor of Cosmology and Astrophysics
    • Deputy Director, Institute of Astromony
    • Deputy Director, Kavli Institute for Cosmology, Cambridge
  • 2011-2017 Reader in Astrophysics and Cosmology
  • 2006 -2011 University Lecturer, Institute of Astronomy and DAMTP
  • 2002 -2007 Royal Society University Research Fellow
  • 2000 -2002 PPARC Postdoctoral Research Fellow
  • 1998 -present Fellow, Queens' College

Research

I have a range of research interests in physical and theoretical cosmology, mostly centred on the issue of testing the cosmological model and the origin of cosmic structure with cosmological observations. A particular focus is the the origin, interpretation, and measurement of temperature anisotropies and polarization in the CMB. I am a Core Team member of the Planck High-Frequency Instrument and a member of the Simons Observatory with particular interests in lensing of the CMB, constraining the key cosmological parameters and searching for B-mode polarization induced by gravitational waves from the early universe.

Selected Publications

Publications list on ADS

 

Publications

Constraining fundamental physics with the cosmic microwave background
A Challinor
(2006)
(link to publication)
Weak gravitational lensing of the CMB
A Lewis, A Challinor
– Physics Reports
(2006)
429,
1
(doi: 10.1016/j.physrep.2006.03.002)
What can be learned from the lensed cosmic microwave background B-mode polarization power spectrum?
S Smith, A Challinor, G Rocha
– Physical Review D
(2006)
73,
023517
(doi: 10.1103/PhysRevD.73.023517)
Clover experiment: The receiver block
G Pisano, PAR Ade, C Calderon, AD Challinor, P De Bernardis, L Dunlop, WK Gear, Y Giraud-Heraud, DJ Goldie, KJB Grainge, KG Isaak, B Johnson, ME Jones, AN Lasenby, B Maffei, PD Mauskopf, SJ Melhuish, A Orlando, L Piccirillo, AC Taylor, S Withington, G Yassin
– EAS Publications Series
(2006)
14,
245
(doi: 10.1051/eas:2005038)
Clover: The CMB polarization observer
B Maffei, PAR Ade, C Calderon, AD Challinor, P De Bernardis, L Dunlop, WK Gear, Y Giraud-Heraud, DJ Goldie, KJB Grainge, KG Isaak, B Johnson, ME Jones, AN Lasenby, PD Mauskopf, SJ Melhuish, A Orlando, L Piccirillo, G Pisano, AC Taylor, S Withington, G Yassin
– EAS Publications Series
(2006)
14,
251
(doi: 10.1051/eas:2005039)
What have we learned from CMB observations?
A Lasenby, A Challinor
– Proceedings of the 41st Rencontres de Moriond: Contents and Structures of the Universe 2006
(2006)
15
CLOVER experiment: The receiver block
G Pisano, PAR Ade, C Calderon, AD Challinor, P De Bernardis, L Dunlop, WK Gear, Y Giraud-Héraud, DJ Goldie, KJB Grainge, KG Isaak, B Johnson, ME Jones, AN Lasenby, B Maffei, PD Mauskopf, SJ Melhuish, A Orlando, L Piccirillo, AC Taylor, S Withington, G Yassin
– EAS Publications Series
(2005)
14,
245
(doi: 10.1051/eas:2005038)
CLOVER: The CMB polarization observer
B Maffei, PAR Ade, C Calderon, AD Challinor, P De Bernardis, L Dunlop, WK Gear, Y Giraud-Héraud, DJ Goldie, KJB Grainge, KG Isaak, B Johnson, ME Jones, AN Lasenby, PD Mauskopf, SJ Melhuish, A Orlando, L Piccirillo, G Pisano, AC Taylor, S Withington, G Yassin
– EAS Publications Series
(2005)
14,
251
(doi: 10.1051/eas:2005039)
Spacetime algebra and electron physics
CJL Doran, AN Lasenby, SF Gull, S Somaroo, AD Challinor
– Advances in Imaging and Electron Physics
(2005)
95,
271
(link to publication)
Error analysis of quadratic power spectrum estimates for cosmic microwave background polarization: sampling covariance
A Challinor, G Chon
– Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
(2005)
360,
509
(doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2966.2005.09076.x)
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Research Group

Relativity and Gravitation

Email

A.D.Challinor@ast.cam.ac.uk

Room

B2.08

Telephone

01223 764341

Personal homepage

http://www.damtp.cam.ac.uk/user/gr/about/members/challinor.html

Study at Cambridge

About the University

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