David S. Armstrong

Chancellor Professor of Physics

College of William & Mary

silly photo (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:

My research interests are in the area of Experimental Nuclear and Particle Physics.
Experiments are conducted at Jefferson Lab and TRIUMF.

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

Our final high-precision measurement of the proton's weak charge has been published in Nature [Vol. 557, pages 207-211 (2018)].
An excellent perspective for a broader scientific audience was provided by Xiaochao Zheng, in the "News and Views" section of the same issue.

Press coverage is here:

Earlier press coverage of our initial result, which was published in 2013 in Physical Review Letters is here:

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:

Victoria Owen (PhD Student)
Ezekiel Wertz (PhD Student)
Kate Evans (PhD Student)
Lauren Carver (senior undergraduate)

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

Teaching:

Spring 2021: Physics 150 - Freshman Seminar: "Schrodinger's Cat: Quantum Reality"
Fall 2020: Physics 313 - Quantum Mechanics I
Spring 2020: Physics 404 - Introduction to Particle and Nuclear Physics
Physics 101P (General Physics, Problem session)

Service:

President of Faculty Assembly (2020-2021)
President, Faculty Affairs Committee of Arts & Sciences (2019-2020)
Member, APS/DNP "Allies" program
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
- 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

Physics Department
College of William and Mary

armd@physics.wm.edu

last updated January 2021