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Faculty of Mathematics

 

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

The speed of Galileon gravity
P Brax, C Burrage, AC Davis
– Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics
(2016)
2016,
004
Searching for scalar gravitational interactions in current and future cosmological data
A Hojjati, A Plahn, A Zucca, L Pogosian, P Brax, AC Davis, GB Zhao
– Physical Review D
(2016)
93,
043531
Non-canonical inflation coupled to matter
S Céspedes, AC Davis
– Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics
(2015)
2015,
014
Distinguishing modified gravity models
P Brax, AC Davis
– Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics
(2015)
2015,
042
Shape dependence of Vainshtein screening
JK Bloomfield, C Burrage, A-C Davis
– Physical Review D
(2015)
91,
083510
Cosmological tests of coupled Galileons
P Brax, C Burrage, AC Davis, G Gubitosi
– Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics
(2015)
2015,
028
Casimir, gravitational, and neutron tests of dark energy
P Brax, AC Davis
– Physical Review D
(2015)
91,
063503
Pulsar constraints on screened modified gravity
P Brax, AC Davis, J Sakstein
– Classical and Quantum Gravity
(2014)
31,
225001
Astrophysical black holes in screened modified gravity
A-C Davis, R Gregory, R Jha, J Muir
– Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics
(2014)
2014,
033
Astrophysical black holes in screened modified gravity
AC Davis, R Gregory, R Jha, J Muir
– Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics
(2014)
2014,
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Research Groups

High Energy Physics
Relativity and Gravitation

Room

B2.18

Telephone

01223 337878