Academic and Professional Activities of WTH van Oers
ACADEMIC AND RESEARCH EXPERIENCE
Dates Position Held Institution
Sep. 1956- Research Assistant Institute of Nuclear Physics Research
Dec. 1959 Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Jan. 1960- Research Associate Institute of Nuclear Physics Research
May 1964 Amsterdam, The Netherlands
June 1964- Assistant Research Department of Physics
Dec. 1965 Physicist University of California
Los Angeles, California
Jan. 1966- Assistant Professor Department of Physics
Aug. 1967 University of California
Los Angeles, California
Sep. 1967- Associate Professor Department of Physics
June 1974 University of Manitoba
Winnipeg, Canada
Academic Year Visiting Associate Department of Physics
1971-1972 Professor University of California
Los Angeles, California
July 1974- Professor Department of Physics
June 1999 University of Manitoba
Winnipeg, Canada
July 1999- Distinguished Department of Physics and Astronomy
June 2005 Professor University of Manitoba
Winnipeg, Canada
Summer 1975 Visiting Scientist TRIUMF, Vancouver, Canada
Sep. 1975- Visiting Scientist Centre d'Etudes Nucleaires de Saclay
Sep. 1976 D. Ph.-N/M.E.
Gif-sur-Yvette, France
July-Aug. Visiting Staff Member Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory
1979 Los Alamos, New Mexico
Aug. 1980 Visiting Staff Member Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory
Los Alamos, New Mexico
July 1981- Visiting Scientist TRIUMF, Vancouver, Canada
August 1983 (research/study leave 1981-1982)
(leave of absence 1982-1983)
May 1984- Visiting Scientist TRIUMF, Vancouver, Canada
Aug. 1984
May 1985- Visiting Scientist TRIUMF, Vancouver, Canada
Aug. 1985
June 1986- Visiting Scientist TRIUMF, Vancouver, Canada
Aug. 1986
Sep. 1986 Program Director National Science Foundation
Oct. 1987 (leave of absence) Washington, D.C.
Nov. 1987- Visiting Scientist TRIUMF, Vancouver, Canada
Aug. 1989 (Killam Research Fellowship)
Sep. 1989- Visiting Scientist Laboratoire National Saturne
Aug. 1990 (research/study leave) Gif-sur-Yvette, France
Sep. 1991- Visiting Scientist TRIUMF, Vancouver, Canada
Aug. 1995
Apr. 1996- Guest Professor Institute for Nuclear Study
July 1996 University of Tokyo
Tokyo, Japan
May 1998- Guest Scientist Institut fuer Kernphysik
Dec. 1998 (research/study leave) Forschungszentrum Juelich
Juelich, Germany
Jan. 1999- Visiting Scientist Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator
Aug. 1999 (research/study leave) Facility, Newport News, Virginia
Apr. 2001- Visiting Scientist Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator
May 2001 Facility, Newport News, Virginia
June 2002 Visiting Scientist Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator
Facility, Newport News, Virginia
Aug. 2003- Guest Scientist Institut fuer Kernphysik
Dec. 2003 (research/study leave) Forschungszentrum Juelich
Juelich, Germany
Jan. 2004- Visiting Scientist Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator
July 2004 (research/study leave) Facility, Newport News, Virginia
Apr. 2005- Visiting Scientist Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator
July 2005 Facility, Newport News, Virginia
July 2005- Distinguished Department of Physics and Astronomy
present Professor Emeritus University of Manitoba
Winnipeg, Canada
OTHER PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
1988 - 1988: Member of the Editorial Board, Physical Review C.
1986 - 1991: Member of the Editorial Board "Few Body System"
1976 - 1978: Member of the Intermediate Energy Grants Selection
Committee of the National Research Council of Canada
1974 - 1975: Member, TRIUMF Users Executive Committee
1978 - 1981: Member of the Program Advisory Committee of the Indiana
University Cyclotron Facility
1983: Member of the DOE Review Panel on the Medium Energy
Physics Users Program
1985 - 1987; 1989 - 1992: Member of the LAMPF Program Advisory Committee
1985 - 1987: Chair TRIUMF Long Range Planning Committee
1992 - 1994: Chair-elect, chair, past-chair, TRIUMF users organization
1993 - 1994: Member TRIUMF Experiments Evaluation Committee
1995 - 1999: Alternate member, member, TRIUMF Operating Committee
1996 - 1998: Member Program Committee of the Division of Nuclear Physics
of the American Physical Society
1999: Member US National Science Foundation Review of the Indiana
University Cyclotron Facility
1999 - 2002: Chair of the Program Advisory Committee of the Indiana
University Cyclotron Facility
1999 - 2005: Member, Secretary of the IUPAP Commission on Nuclear
Physics (C12)
1996 - 2002: Chair-elect, Chair, Past-Chair of the Division of Nuclear
Physics of the Canadian Association of Physicists
2000 - 2006: Member of the TRIUMF Board of Management
2002 - 2004: Member of the Executive of the Division of Nuclear Physics
of the American Physical Society
2002 - 2008: Member of the COoler SYnchrotron Program Advisory
Committee
2004 - 2006: Secretary of the IUPAP-C12 Committee on Cooperation in
Nuclear Physics
2005 - 2007: Vice-Chair, Chair of the Bonner Prize Committee of the
American Physical Society