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Lloyd Armstrong, Jr.

Provost and Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs
University of Southern California

Lloyd Armstrong, Jr. has been provost and professor of physics at the University of Southern California since August, 1993. Prior to coming to USC, Armstrong was on the faculty of Johns Hopkins University. He arrived as a postdoctoral fellow in the physics department at Johns Hopkins in 1969 and rose through the faculty ranks, attaining the rank of professor of physics in 1975. He served as chair of the department from 1984-87, and as dean of the school of arts and sciences from 1987 to 1993. He spent two years as a Senior Physicist at the Westinghouse Research Center in Pittsburgh before going to Johns Hopkins. Armstrong serves on the board of directors of the California Council of Science and Technology, the Pacific Council on International Policy, and USC Care (the practice plan for the physicians of the USC Medical School). He has served on a large number of boards and committees of the National Academy of Sciences/National Research Council, including the Committee on Recommendations for the U.S. Army Basic Scientific Research (1984-87), the Committee on Atomic and Molecular Sciences (1984-89, Chair 1985-88), and the Board on Physics and Astronomy (1989-96, executive committee 1993-96). He served on the Advisory Board of the Institute for Theoretical Physics in Santa Barbara (1992-96, chair 1994-95), of the Institute for Theoretical Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics at Harvard (1994-97), and is currently on the Advisory Board of the Rochester Theory Center for Optical Science and Engineering (1996-, chair 1997-). He also served on the NSF Advisory Committee for Physics (1985-88), and as a member of the Committee of Visitors of the Physics Division of the NSF (1991). Armstrong received a B. S. in physics from MIT in 1962, and a Ph.D. in physics from the University of California at Berkeley in 1966. Following his Ph.D., he was a post-doctoral fellow at the Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory (1966-67).