David S. Armstrong

Professor 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:

Check out the Hadronic Physics Group site for many details. A list of my publications and some recent talks is available.

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

• 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).
• William & Mary and Jefferson Lab from the W & M Alumni magazine, Aug. 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.)
• APS News article in which I am quoted on funding for nuclear physics. (March 2006 issue)
• PhysicsWeb article on G0.
• Stephanie Bailey explaining G0 to the Secretary of Energy
• Times-Dispatch article that connects our work at Jefferson Lab to the 2004 Nobel Prize in physics

    Research Students:

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

   Teaching:

    Service:

• Chair of Physics Dept. Facilities Committee
• Chair of Retention, Promotion and Tenure Committee (Arts & Sciences)
• Public Lecture: 5th Annual Dean's Distinguished Lecture
• Physics Dept. Steering Committee
• 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.
• W&M Web Advisory committee

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