Dr. Willem T.H. van Oers

University Distinguished Professor Emeritus

PhD, University of Amsterdam, 1963

Contact:

Department of Physics & Astronomy
University of Manitoba
Winnipeg, MB R3T 2N2
Canada
  
Phone: +1-204-474-9863
FAX: +1-204-474-7622
Email:

  • vanoers physics.umanitoba.ca
  • vanoers triumf.ca
  • vanoers jlab.org

CV:

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Laboratory:

TRIUMF, 4004 Wesbrook Mall, Vancouver, BC, V6T 2A3
Tel: 604.222.1047 x6151
Fax: 604.222.1074

Jefferson Laboratory, 12000 Jefferson Ave., Newport News, VA 23606
Tel: 757.269.7168
Fax: 757.269.5235

Current experiments:


Research interests:

Research Interests: Low-Energy Nuclear Physics, in particular reactions induced by proton, deuteron, and alpha-particle beams; few-nucleon problems, phase shift analyses; the nuclear optical potential. Intermediate Energy Physics, the nucleon-nucleon interaction, interactions of protons and pions with very-light nuclei; the nuclear optical potential; fundamental symmetries: charge symmetry breaking and parity violation; strangeness and hadronic matter; rare decays of the eta-meson; parity violating electron scattering and the strangeness content of the nucleon; parity violating electron scattering and the weak charge of the proton and electron. High Energy Physics, spin as a tool to study fundamental interactions.

Bio:

WILLEM T.H. van OERS – University Distinguished Professor, University of Manitoba (1974-2005); Visiting Scientist, TRIUMF (1991-present); Visiting Scientist, Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility; University Distinguished Professor (Emeritus) (2005-present).

Research Assistant, Institute of Nuclear Physics Research, Amsterdam, the Netherlands (1956-1959); Doctorate in Physics and Mathematics, University of Amsterdam (1963); Research Associate, Institute of Nuclear Physics Research, Amsterdam, the Netherlands (1960-1964); Assistant Research Physicist, University of California, LA (1964-1965); Acting Assistant Professor, University of California, LA (1966-1967); Associate Professor, University of Manitoba (1967-1974); Visiting Associate Professor, University of California, LA (1971-1972); Visiting Scientist, TRIUMF, Vancouver (1975); Visiting Scientist, Centre d'Etudes Nucléaires de Saclay, France (1975-1976); Visiting Staff Member, Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory (July-August 1979); Visiting Staff Member, Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory, August 1980; Visiting Scientist, TRIUMF, Vancouver (1981-1986); Program Director, National Science Foundation, Washington, DC (1986-1987); Visiting Scientist, TRIUMF, Vancouver (1987-1989); Visiting Scientist, Laboratoire National Saturne, France (1989-1990); Guest Professor, Institute for Nuclear Study, University of Tokyo, Japan (April-July 1996); Guest Scientist, Institut fuer Kernphysik, Forschungszentrum Jülich, Germany (May-December 1998); Visiting Scientist, Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility (January- August 1999, May-June 2001, June 2002); Guest Scientist, Institut fuer Kernphysik, Forschungszentrum Jülich, Germany (August-December 2003); and Visiting Scientist, Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility (January -August 2004, April–July 2005, July–October 2006). In 1972 I was one of the two candidates for the directorship of the KVI in Groningen, and in 1979 I was one of the two candidates for the position of Professor of Experimental Physics, at the Vrye Universiteit, in Amsterdam.

“University Distinguished Professor”, University of Manitoba (1999); Fellow of the American Physical Society; Killam Research Fellow (1987-1989); and Sigma Xi, Manitoba Chapter, Senior Scientist Award (2001); “University Distinguished Professor (Emeritus)”, University of Manitoba (2004); Honorary Member of the standing International Committee for Spin Physics (2006).

Other Professional Activities: Member of the Editorial Board Physical Review C (1986-1988); member of the Editorial Board “Few Body Systems” (1986-1991); member of the Intermediate Energy Grants Selection Committee of the National Research Council of Canada (1976-1978); member of the Program Advisory Committee of the Indiana University Cyclotron Facility (1978-1981); member of the DOE Review Panel on the Medium Energy Physics Users Program (1983); member of the LAMPF Program Advisory Committee (1985-1987, 1989-1992); member of the TRIUMF Users Executive Committee (1974-1975); Chair of the TRIUMF Long Range Planning Committee (1985-1987); Chair-Elect, Chair, Past-Chair of the TRIUMF Users Organization (1992-1994); member of the TRIUMF Experiments Evaluation Committee (1993-1994); alternate-member/member of the TRIUMF Operating Committee (1995-1997); member of the American Physical Society - Division of Nuclear Physics Program Committee (1996-1998); Chair-Elect, Chair, Past-Chair of the Canadian Association of Physicists - Division of Nuclear Physics (1996-2003); Chair of the Program Advisory Committee of the Indiana University Cyclotron Facility (1999-2002); member of the IUPAP Commission for Nuclear Physics (C12) (1999-2002); Secretary of the IUPAP Commission for Nuclear Physics (C12) (2002-2005); Vice-Chair of the IUPAP Commission for Nuclear Physics (C12) (2006-2008); member of the Canadian National IUPAP Liaison Committee (2000-present); member of the TRIUMF Board of Management (2000-2009); member of the Executive of the Division of Nuclear Physics of the American Physical Society (2002-2004); member, Chair of the COoler SYnchrotron (COSY) Program Advisory Committee (2002-2009); Executive Secretary of the IUPAP Working Group (WG.9) – International Cooperation in Nuclear Physics (2003-present); Vice-Chair, Chair of the American Physical Society Bonner Prize Committee (2005-2007); member of the OECD Global Science Forum Working Group on Nuclear Physics (2006-2008); member of the CAP-TRIUMF Vogt Medal Selection Committee (2014-2016).

Research Interests: Low-Energy Nuclear Physics, in particular reactions induced by proton, deuteron, and alpha-particle beams; few-nucleon problems, phase shift analyses; the nuclear optical potential. Intermediate Energy Physics, the nucleon-nucleon interaction, interactions of protons and pions with very-light nuclei; the nuclear optical potential; fundamental symmetries: charge symmetry breaking and parity violation; strangeness and hadronic matter; rare decays of the eta-meson; parity violating electron scattering and the strangeness content of the nucleon; parity violating electron scattering and the weak charge of the proton and electron. High Energy Physics, spin as a tool to study fundamental interactions. Service to the Scientific Community: Member of the Organizing Committee of the International Conference on Few Particle Problems in the Nuclear Interaction (University of California at Los Angeles, August 28 September 1, 1972); member of the Organizing Committee of the International Conference on Few Body Problems in Nuclear and Particle Physics (Laval University, August 27 30, 1974); organizer (with others) of the Twelfth Annual Western Canadian Nuclear Conference (University of Manitoba, February 20 22, 1975); Chair of the International Advisory and Organizing Committee of the Third International Conference on Clustering Aspects of Nuclear Structure and Nuclear Reactions (University of Manitoba, June 19 23, 1978); member of the Scientific Program Committee of the Eighth International Conference on High Energy Physics and Nuclear Structure (TRIUMF, August 13 17, 1979); member of the International Advisory Committee of the Fifth International Conference on Polarization Phenomena in Nuclear Physics, (Santa Fé, New Mexico, August 25 29, 1980); member of the International Advisory Committee of the Fourth International Conference on Clustering Aspects of Nuclear Structure and Nuclear Reactions (Chester, England, July 23 27, 1984); member of the Scientific Advisory Committee of the International Conference on Hadronic Probes and Nuclear Interactions (Tempe, Arizona, March 11 14, 1985); member of the International Advisory Committee of the Sixth International Conference on Polarization Phenomena in Nuclear Physics (Osaka, Japan, August 26 30, 1985); coordinator (with J.B. Roberts) of the Parallel Sessions on Spin Physics, Second Conference on the Intersections of Nuclear and Particle Physics (Lake Louise, Alberta, May 26 31, 1986); member of the International Advisory Committee of the European Workshop on Few Body Physics (Rome, Italy, October 7 11, 1986); Chair of the Organizing Committee of the Symposium/Workshop on Parity Violation in Hadronic Systems (Vancouver, B.C., May 28 29, 1987); member of the Organizing Committee on the Conference on the Intersections between Particle and Nuclear Physics (Rockport, Maine, May 14 19, 1988); member of the International Advisory Board of the Fifth International Conference on clustering Aspects in Nuclear and Subnuclear Systems (Kyoto, Japan, July 25 29, 1988); organizer of the Technical Session on "Spin and Symmetries" at the Eighth International Symposium on High Energy Spin Physics, (Minneapolis, Minnesota, September 12 17, 1988); Chair of the Organizing Committee of the Symposium/ Workshop on Spin and Symmetries (TRIUMF, Vancouver, B.C., June 30 July 2, 1989); member of the Organizing Committee for the Twelfth International Conference on Few Body Problems in Physics (Vancouver, B.C., July 2 8, 1989); member of the Organizing Committee of the Workshop on Rare Decays of Light Mesons (CEA-Saclay, Gif sur Yvette, France, March 29 30, 1990); organizer of and Rapporteur on the Parallel Session on "Polarization and Symmetries" at the Seventh International Conference on Polarization Phenomena in Nuclear Physics (Paris, France, July 9 13, 1990); Co Chair of the Fourth Conference on the Intersections between Particle and Nuclear Physics (Tucson, Arizona, May 23 29, 1991); member of the International Advisory Committee of the Thirteenth International Conference on Few Body Problems in Physics (Adelaide, Australia, January 5 11, 1992); member of the International Advisory Committee of the Fourteenth International Conference on Few Body Problems in Physics (Williamsburg, Virginia, May 24 31, 1994); Chair of the Fifth Conference on the Intersections of Particle and Nuclear Physics, (St. Petersburg, Florida, May 31 June 6, 1994); member of the International Advisory Committee of the VIII International Symposium on Polarization Phenomena in Nuclear Physics (Bloomington, Indiana, September 15 22, 1994); member of the International Advisory Committee of the Seventh International Conference on the Structure of Baryons (Santa Fe, New Mexico, October 3 7, 1995); member of the International Advisory Committee for the High-Energy Spin Physics Symposia (1996-2000); member of the Organizing Committee of the Sixth Conference on the Intersections of Particle and Nuclear Physics (Big Sky, Montana, May 27-June 2, 1997); member of the International Advisory Committee of the Second International Symposium on Symmetries in Subatomic Physics (Seattle, Washington, June 25-28, 1997); member of the International Advisory Committee of the Fifteenth International Conference on Few-Body Problems in Physics (Groningen, the Netherlands, July 22-26, 1997); Chair of the Local Organizing Committee of the 1997 DNP Fall Meeting (Whistler, B.C., October 5-8, 1997); member of the International Advisory Committee of the Sixteenth European Conference on Few Body Problems in Physics (Autrans, France, June 1 6, 1998); co-organizer, Workshop on Parity Violation in Hadronic and Nuclear Systems (INT, Seattle, Washington, June 22-24, 1998); member of the International Advisory Committee of BARYONS 98 (Bonn, Germany, September 22 26, 1998); Chair of the International Workshop on Intermediate Energy Spin Physics (Jülich, Germany, November 18-20, 1998); member of the International Advisory Committee of the workshop on Hypernuclear Physics with Electromagnetic Probes (Hampton, VA, December 2-4, 1999); member of the International Advisory Committee of the Sixteenth International Conference on Few-Body Problems in Physics (Taipei, Taiwan, March 6-10, 2000); member of the International Advisory Committee of the Third International Symposium on Symmetries in Subatomic Physics (Adelaide, Australia, March 13-17, 2000); coordinator of the International Workshop on Parity Violation in Atomic, Nuclear, and Hadronic Systems (ECT*, Trento, Italy, June 5-17, 2000); co-organizer of the Workshop on Low Energy Precision Electroweak Measurements (TRIUMF, Vancouver, B.C., April 4-6, 2002); member of the International Advisory Committee of the International Workshop “From Parity Violation to Hadronic Structure and More” (Mainz, Germany, June 5-8, 2002); member of the International Advisory Committee of the Fifteenth International Spin Physics Symposium (BNL, Long Island, NY, September 9-14, 2002); member of the International Advisory Committee of the Seventeenth International Conference on Few-Body Problems in Physics (Durham, NC, June 5-10, 2003); Chair of the Organizing Committee of the “FINUPHY Workshop on Advanced Electromagnetic Calorimetry and its Applications: WASA at COSY (FEMC04)” FZ-Juelich, Juelich, Germany,January 26-29, 2004); member of the International Advisory Committee of the International Workshop “From Parity Violation to Hadronic Structure and More” (Grenoble, France, June 8-11, 2004); member of the Organizing Committee of the Workshop on Precision Electroweak Physics “From Zero to Zero0” (Fermilab, May 12-14, 2004); Vice-Chair of the Local Organizing Committee of the Canadian Association of Physicists Annual Congress 2004 (Winnipeg, MB, June 13-16, 2004); co-organizer of the Jefferson Laboratory Hall C Physics Workshop (JLab, Newport News, VA, August 18-19, 2004); member of the International Advisory Committee of the Sixteenth International Symposium on Spin Physics (Trieste, Italy, October 10-16, 2004); co-organizer of the Forty-second Western Regional Nuclear and Particle Physics Conference (Banff, AB, February 18-20, 2005); member of the International Advisory Committee of the Third Asia-Pacific Conference on Few-Body Problems in Physics (Nakhon Ratchasima, Thailand, July 26-30, 2005); member of the International Advisory Committee of the Workshop “From Parity Violation to Hadronic Structure and More” (Milos, Greece, May 26-30, 2006); member of the Scientific Organizing Committee of the Eighteenth International Conference on Few-Body Problems in Physics (Santos, SP, Brazil, August 24-29, 2006); member of the International Advisory Committee of the Seventeenth International Symposium on Spin Physics (Kyoto, Japan, October 2-7, 2006): organizer of the Electroweak Workshop: The Scientific Impact and Feasibility of an Ultra-precise 12 GeV M\oller Experiment to Test the Standard Model (JLab, Newport News, VA, December 11-13, 2006); member of the International Advisory Committee of the International Nuclear Physics Conference (Tokyo, Japan, June 3-8, 2007); member of the International Advisory Committee of the Eleventh International Conference on Meson-Nucleon Physics and the Structure of the Nucleon (FZ-Juelich, Juelich, Germany, September 10-14, 2007); member of the International Advisory Committee of the Fourth Asia-Pacific Conference on Few-Body Problems in Physics APFB08 (Depok, Indonesia, August 19-23, 2008); member of the International Advisory Committee of the Eighteenth International Symposium on Spin Physics (Charlottesville, VA, October 6-11, 2008); Chair of the Scientific Advisory Committee of the Conference on the Intersections of Particle and Nuclear Physics (San Diego, CA, May 26-31, 2009); member of the International Advisory Committee of the Fourth International Symposium on Symmetries in Subatomic Physics (Taipei, Taiwan, June 2-6, 2009); member of the International Advisory Committee of the Workshop “From Parity Violation to Hadronic Structure and More” PAVI09 (Bar Harbor, ME, June 22-26, 2009); member of the International Advisory Committee of the 12th International Conference on Meson-Nucleon Physics and the Structure of the Nucleon (Williamsburg, VA, May 31 – June 4, 2010); member of the International Advisory Committee of the International Nuclear Physics Conference (Vancouver, BC, July 5-9, 2010); member of the International Advisory Committee of the Nineteenth International Symposium on Spin Physics (Juelich, Germany, September 27 – October 2, 2010); Organizer of the Workshop “Precision Tests of the Standard Model: from Atomic Parity Violation to Parity-Violating Electron Scattering” (ECT*, Trento, Italy, November 8-12, 2010); Member of the International Advisory Committee of the Fifth Asia-Pacific Conference on Few Body Problems in Physics APFB11 (Seoul, Korea, August 22-26, 2011); member of the Organizing Committee of the Fifth Workshop “From Parity Violation to Hadronic Structure and more ---” PAVI11 (Rome, Italy, September 5-9, 2011); member of the International Scientific Advisory Committee of the Workshop on High Energy Spin Physics DSPIN-11, (JINR, Dubna, Russia, September 20-24, 2011); Chair of the 11th Conference on the Intersections of Particle and Nuclear Physics CIPANP 2012, (St. Petersburg, FL, May 28 – June 3, 2012); member of the International Advisory Committee of the 5th Symposium on Symmetries in Subatomic Physics SSP12 (Groningen, the Netherlands, June 18-22, 2012); member of the International Scientific Advisory Committee of the 20th International Spin Physics Symposium – SPIN 2012 (JINR, Dubna, Russia, September 17-22, 2012); member of the International Advisory Committee of the 13th Conference on Meson-Nucleon Physics and the Structure of the Nucleon MENU2013 (Rome, Italy, September 30 – October 4, 2013): member of the International Scientific Advisory Committee of the Workshop on High Energy Spin Physics DSPIN-13 (JINR, Dubna, Russia, October 8-12, 2013); member of the International Advisory Committee of the Sixth Asia-Pacific Conference on Few body Problems in Physics APFB14 (Hanford, South-Australia, April 7-11, 2014); member of the Organizing Committee of the Sixth Workshop “From Parity Violation to Hadronic Structure and more” - PAVI14 (Skaneateles, NY, July 7-11, 2014): member of the International Scientific Advisory Committee of the 21st International Spin Physics Symposium – SPIN 2014 (Beijing, China, October 20-25, 2014); Co-Chair of the 6th Symposium on Symmetries in Subatomic Physics - SSP15 (Victoria, BC, Canada, June 8-12, 2015); member of the Organizing Committee of the 12th Conference on the Intersections of Particle and Nuclear Physics – CIPANP 2015 (Vail, CO, May 19-25, 2015); member of the International Scientific Advisory Committee of the Workshop on High Energy Spin Physics – DSPIN-15 (JINR, Dubna, Russia, September 8-12, 2015); member of the International Advisory Committee of the 14th Conference on Meson-Nucleon Physics and the Structure of the Nucleon – MENU2016 (Tokyo, Japan, July 24-29, 2016); member of the International Advisory Committee of the International Nuclear physics Conference – INPC2016 (Adelaide, SA, September 11-16, 2016); member of the International Advisory Committee of the Seventh Asia-Pacific Conference on Few-Body Problems in Physics (Guilin, China, August 25-29, 2017); member of the International Scientific Advisory Committee of the Workshop on High Energy Spin Physics – DSPIN-17 (JINR, Dubna, Russia, September 11-15, 2017): member of the International Advisory Committee of the 15th Conference on Meson-Nucleon Physics and the Structure of the Nucleon – MENU2019; member of the International Advisory Committee of the International Nuclear Physics Conference – INPC2019 (Glasgow, U.K. , July 29 – August 2, 2019); member of the International Scientific Advisory Committee of the Workshop on High Energy Spin Physics – DSPIN-19, (JINR, Dubna, Russia, September 2 – 4, 2019); member of the International Advisory Committee of the Eighth Asia-Pacific Conference on Few-Body Problems in Physics (Kanazawa, Japan, August 19 – 23, 2020).

List of Publications

Former Graduate Students of Willem T.H. van Oers

  • Giovanni Lobianco (M.Sc. 1970) Universita di Camerino +
  • Y.I. Wu (Ph.D. 1970)
  • Haw Huang (M.Sc. 1972)
  • Edward S.Y. Tin (Ph.D. 1974) Power Products Canada
  • Alexander M. McDonald (Ph.D. 1976) Power Products Canada
  • Tawfik N. Nasr (M.Sc. 1977)
  • Douglas K. Hasell (M.Sc. 1978)
  • Tawfik N. Nasr (Ph.D. 1980) Alberta Cancer Foundation
  • Gerry R. Maughan (M.Sc. 1982)
  • Peter J.T. Verheyen (Ph.D. 1983) Techinical University Delft
  • Douglas K. Hasell (Ph.D. 1983) MIT-LNS
  • Panos Drakopoulos (M.Sc. 1984)
  • Angela Bracco (Ph.D. 1984) Universita di Milano
  • Tijen Eliyakut (M.Sc. 1986)
  • Alkaviadis C. Rouvas (M.Sc. 1986)
  • Dinabandhu Bandyopadhyay (Ph.D. 1988) Bell SYGMA
  • Konstantinos Chantziantoniou (M.Sc. 1989) Halifax Infirmary Hospital
  • Alexander M. Sekulovich (M.Sc. 1990)
  • Victor Sum (M.Sc. 1992)
  • Jiangou Zhao (Ph.D. 1985) Perkin-Elmer Inc.
  • Michael Landry (Ph.D. 2000) LIGO-Hanford
  • Zunjian Ke (Ph.D. 2008)

At UCLA I guided the following students towards their Ph.D. : John M. Cameron (1967) and H.B. (Jack) Eldridge (1966).