David S. Armstrong

Chancellor Professor and Chair of Physics

(my alter ego)
B.Sc., McGill University, 1981
M.Sc., Queen's University, 1984
Ph.D., University of British Columbia, 1988.

            Curiculum Vitae

    Research Interests:

A list of my publications and some recent talks is available.

Recent press coverage of the Q-weak experiment's first result, which represents the first measurement of the proton's weak charge, and which appeared in Physical Review Letters:

• Ideation (and William and Mary Alumni Magazine)
• Physics World
• Phys.Org
• Science Daily
• Eureka Alert
• JLab's press release
• TRIUMF's press release
• "Synopsis" from "Physics" (our paper was selected as an "Editor's Suggestion")

Some older items from the press about my research (and related things):

• PREx (lead radius experiment) results written up in "ScienceNOW" (news feature from Science magazine).
• A writeup on the MENU conference, recently held at William and Mary, that I co-chaired.
• Jefferson Lab news article, written for the general public, on the results of the G0 experiment. The same writeup also appeared in Symmetry Breaking.
• Washington Post article on some "Outreach" work I am doing to help create a virtual physics textbook (see below under "Service") for more details.
• Physics News Update article on the latest results from the HAPPEx experiments (Number 776, May 2); a really well-written news story.
• CERN Courier article written by Kandice Carter (JLab Science writer) and myself on strangeness in the nucleon.
• Wall Street Journal article on HAPPEx/G0 results (May 19 2006)
• G0 experiment - research highlights in Nature 437, 172 (8 September 2005).
• G0 experiment mentioned in The Economist (wow!) (Sept. 1 2005 issue).
• Phys Rev Focus article on G0.
• PhysOrg.com article on Sarah Phillips and Quantum Diaries (reprint of the W & M News feature).
• Physics World article on the HAPPEX experiments.
• Science news article in which I am quoted at the end. (Science 2005 308 1852-1853.)

    Research Students:

You can also look at a list of recent research students with thesis titles.

   Teaching:

    Service:

• Co-chair, MENU conference (12th International Conference on Meson-Nucleon Physics and the Structure of the Nucleon)
• Public Lecture: 5th Annual Dean's Distinguished Lecture
• Technical/Content Advisor to Physics Flexbook Project,
  (an open-source physics resource book for K-12 education in the Commonwealth of VA) See also: Washington Post article.
• 2009 Raft Debate (does this count as service, or disservice?)
  • W&M news article
  • Flat Hat article
  • DOG Street Journal article
  • Virginia Informer article
  • Symmetry Magazine article (a magazine about particle physics, published by Fermilab and SLAC)

Contact points:

Office (W & M): (757) 221-3489    
Jefferson Lab:  (757) 269-6087        
FAX:            (757) 221-3540
E-Mail: armd@physics.wm.edu   or    armd@jlab.org
Snail-Mail:   Dept. of Physics
              P.O. Box 8795
              College of William and Mary
              Williamsburg, Virginia
              23187-8795   USA