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Professor Anne Christine Davis

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

SUPER-screening
P Brax, A-C Davis, J Sakstein
– Physics Letters B
(2013)
719,
210
(doi: 10.1016/j.physletb.2013.01.044)
Screening fifth forces in k-essence and DBI models
P Brax, C Burrage, A-C Davis
– Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics
(2013)
2013,
020
(doi: 10.1088/1475-7516/2013/01/020)
Signatures of modified gravity on the 21 cm power spectrum at reionisation
P Brax, S Clesse, AC Davis
– Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics
(2013)
2013,
003
(doi: 10.1088/1475-7516/2013/01/003)
Shining light on modifications of gravity
P Brax, C Burrage, A-C Davis
– Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics
(2012)
2012,
016
(doi: 10.1088/1475-7516/2012/10/016)
Systematic simulations of modified gravity: symmetron and dilaton models
P Brax, AC Davis, B Li, HA Winther, GB Zhao
– Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics
(2012)
2013,
029
(doi: 10.1088/1475-7516/2013/04/029)
Modified gravity tomography
P Brax, AC Davis, B Li
– Physics Letters, Section B: Nuclear, Elementary Particle and High-Energy Physics
(2012)
715,
38
(doi: 10.1016/j.physletb.2012.08.002)
Unified description of screened modified gravity
P Brax, AC Davis, B Li, HA Winther
– Physical Review D
(2012)
86,
044015
(doi: 10.1103/PhysRevD.86.044015)
Modified gravity tomography
P Brax, A-C Davis, B Li
– Physics Letters, Section B: Nuclear, Elementary Particle and High-Energy Physics
(2012)
715,
38
(doi: 10.1016/j.physletb.2012.08.002)
Modified gravity makes galaxies brighter
A-C Davis, EA Lim, J Sakstein, DJ Shaw
– Physical Review D
(2012)
85,
123006
(doi: 10.1103/physrevd.85.123006)
Decoupling survives inflation: A critical look at effective field theory violations during inflation
A Avgoustidis, S Cremonini, AC Davis, RH Ribeiro, K Turzyski, S Watson
– Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics
(2012)
2012,
025
(doi: 10.1088/1475-7516/2012/06/025)
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Research Group

High Energy Physics

Email

ad107@cam.ac.uk

Room

B2.18

Telephone

01223 337878

Personal homepage

http://www.damtp.cam.ac.uk/user/acd/

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