Curriculum Vitae
Ken Kiers
Physics Department
Taylor University
236 West Reade Ave.
Upland, IN 4689
USA
Fax: (765) 998-4844
Tel.: (765) 998-4689 (office)
E-mail: knkiers@tayloru.edu
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Personal:
- Birth: March 31, 1968 in St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada
- Citizenship: Canadian
- Marital Status: Married (spouse: Greta Kiers; children: Joshua, Joel,
Benjamin)
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Education and Employment:
- 1998-present, Assistant Professor of Physics, Taylor University.
- 1996-1998, Research Associate at Brookhaven
National Laboratory.
- 1991-1996, Ph.D. in Theoretical Particle Physics, University of
British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada. Thesis: ``A study of neutrino
propagation and oscillations both in vacuum and in dense media,''
under Prof. N. Weiss.
- 1989-1991, B.Sc. in Physics, McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada.
- 1986-1989, Redeemer College (transferred to McMaster), Ancaster, Canada.
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Scholarships and Fellowships:
- NSERC Postdoctoral Fellowship, 1996-98.
- UBC Graduate Fellowship, 1995-96.
- NSERC Post Graduate Scholarship B, 1993-1995.
- NSERC Post Graduate Scholarship A, 1991-1993.
- University ``Top Up'' (UBC), 1991-1992.
- NSERC Undergraduate Research Fellowship, Summer, 1991.
- Boyd McLay Scholarship in Physics (McMaster), 1990-1991.
- NSERC Undergraduate Research Fellowship, Summer, 1990.
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Research Interests:
- My field is theoretical high energy physics.
I have made contributions to topics such as:
- B physics: signals of new physics at the B-factories.
- Neutrino physics: trapping of low-energy neutrinos in dense
stars; quantum mechanical issues concerning neutrino propagation and
detection.
- Collider physics: signals of supersymmetry at an
e gamma collider.
- Scattering in one dimension: many-channel generalization of Levinson's
theorem; time delay.
- Anyon physics: study of the mean field approximation.
- Current projects include:
- CP violation in B
decays (with A. Soni and G.-H. Wu).
- Numerical simulation of alpha decay (with W. van Dijk and A. Platt).
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Courses Taught:
- Physics 203-204 (Algebra-based Introductory Physics sequence)
- Physics 311 (Modern Physics)
- Physics 312 (Nuclear Radiation Physics; co-taught with H. Voss)
- Physics 412 (Quantum Mechanics)
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Refereed Publications:
- Ken Kiers, Amarjit Soni and Guo-Hong Wu, ``CP violation in a two-Higgs
doublet model for the top quark: B \to psi K_S,'' Phys. Rev. D 59,
pp. 096001-1 to 096001-5, 1999
(hep-ph/9810552).
- Ken Kiers and Michel H.G. Tytgat, ``Neutrino ground state
in a dense star,''
Phys. Rev. D 57, pp. 5970-5981, 1998
(hep-ph/9712463).
- Ken Kiers and Nathan Weiss, ``Neutrino oscillations in a model
with a source and detector,'' Phys. Rev. D 57, pp. 3091-3105, 1998
(hep-ph/9710289).
- Ken Kiers and Amarjit Soni, ``Improving constraints on
tan(beta)/m_H using B \to D tau nu,'' Phys. Rev. D 56,
pp. 5786-5793, 1997
(hep-ph/9706337).
- Ken Kiers and Nathan Weiss, ``Coherent neutrino interactions in
a dense medium,'' Phys. Rev. D 56, pp. 5776-5785, 1997
(hep-ph/9704346).
- Guo-Hong Wu, Ken Kiers and John N. Ng, ``Polarization measurements
and T violation in exclusive semileptonic B decays,'' Phys. Rev. D 56,
pp. 5786-5793, 1997
(hep-ph/9705293).
- Guo-Hong Wu, Ken Kiers and John N. Ng, ``Testing time reversal
invariance in exclusive semileptonic B meson decays,'' Phys. Lett. B
402, pp. 159-166, 1997
(hep-ph/9701293).
- Ken Kiers and Wytse van Dijk, ``Scattering in one-dimension: The
coupled Schrödinger equation, threshold behaviour and Levinson's
theorem,'' J. Math. Phys. 37, pp. 6033-6059, 1996
(quant-ph/9608032).
- Ken Kiers, John N. Ng and Guo-Hong Wu, ``Supersymmetric signatures
at an e gamma collider,'' Phys. Lett. B 381, pp. 177-184, 1996
(hep-ph/9604338).
- Ken Kiers, Shmuel Nussinov and Nathan Weiss, ``Coherence effects
in neutrino oscillations,'' Phys. Rev. D 53, pp. 537-547, 1996
(hep-ph/9506271).
- Ken Kiers and Nathan Weiss, ``Scattering from a two-dimensional
array of flux tubes: A study of the validity of mean field theory,''
Phys. Rev. D 49, pp. 2081-2091, 1994
(hep-th/9307113).
- Wytse van Dijk and Ken Kiers, ``Time delay in simple
one-dimensional systems,'' Am. J. Phys. 60, pp. 520-527, 1992.
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Conference Proceedings:
- Ken Kiers and Michel H.G. Tytgat, ``Energetics of neutrinos in neutron
stars,'' talk given by Michel Tytgat at 34th Rencontres de Moriond:
Electroweak Interactions and Unified Theories, Les Arcs, France,
Mar. 13-20, 1999
(hep-ph/9905532).
- Guo-Hong Wu, Ken Kiers and Amarjit Soni, ``CP Violation in B decays in
a two-Higgs doublet model for the top quark,'' talk given by Guo-Hong Wu
at APS Meeting of the Division of Particles and Fields (DPF 99),
Los Angeles, CA, Jan. 5-9, 1999
(hep-ph/9903343).
- Ken Kiers and Michel H.G. Tytgat, ``The neutrino ground state in
a neutron star,'' talk given by Ken Kiers at 18th International Conference
on Neutrino Physics and Astrophysics (Neutrino 98), Takayama, Japan, June 4-9,
1998
(hep-ph/9807412).
- Ken Kiers and Nathan Weiss, ``Coherent neutrino propagation in
a dense medium,'' talk given by Nathan Weiss at ``Strong and
Electroweak Matter,'' Eger, Hungary, May 21-25, 1997
(hep-ph/9709451).
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Invited Talks:
- ``The neutrino ground state in a neutron star,'' Jan. 18, 1999,
Particle Theory Seminar, University of British Columbia.
- ``The neutrino ground state in a neutron star,'' June 9, 1998,
at the 18th International Conference on Neutrino Physics and
Astrophysics (Neutrino 98), June 4-9, 1998, Takayama, Japan.
- ``The neutrino ground state in a neutron star,'' May 12, 1998,
Physics and Astronomy Colloquium, McMaster University.
- ``The neutrino ground state in a dense star,'' Apr. 7, 1998,
at the Center for High Energy Physics, McGill University.
- ``The neutrino ground state in a dense star,'' Apr. 6, 1998,
to the theory group at the Universite de Montreal.
- ``The neutrino ground state in a dense star,'' Mar. 24, 1998, at
Pheno-CTEQ Symposium 98: Frontiers of Phenomenology from
Non-perturbative QCD to New Physics, Mar. 23-26, 1998, Madison.
- ``The neutrino ground state in a dense star,'' Feb. 23, 1998, at
the Center for Theoretical Physics, MIT.
- ``B decays and the search for new physics,'' June 23, 1997, to the
theory group at McMaster University.
- ``T-odd observables in semileptonic B decays,'' Mar. 19, 1997, at
the BaBar Physics Workshop, Mar. 17-20, 1997, Princeton University.
- ``T-odd observables in semileptonic B decays,'' Mar. 17, 1997, at
Pheno97: Recent Developments in Phenomenology, Mar. 17-19, 1997, Madison.
- ``Exclusive B decays and the search for new physics,'' Mar. 3, 1997, at
the ITP, Stony Brook.
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Conferences, Schools and Workshops Attended:
- ``Pheno 99 Symposium: Phenomenology for the Third Millennium,"
(Madison, April 12-14, 1999)
- ``18th International Conference on Neutrino Physics and
Astrophysics (Neutrino 98),'' (Takayama, Japan, June 4-9, 1998)
- ``Pheno-CTEQ Symposium 98: Frontiers of Phenomenology from
Non-perturbative QCD to New Physics'' (Madison, Mar. 23-26, 1998)
- ``BaBar Physics Workshop'' (Princeton University, Mar. 17-20, 1997)
- ``Pheno97: Recent Developments in Phenomenology''
(Madison, Mar. 17-19, 1997)
- ``Supersymmetry and String Theory: A Phenomenological Orientation,''
Jerusalem Winter School for Theoretical Physics
(Jerusalem, Dec. 27, 1994 - Jan. 5, 1995)
- ``TRIUMF Summer Institute'' (Vancouver, July, 1994)
- ``March Meeting of the American Physical Society''
(Seattle, Mar., 1993)
- ``Summer Nuclear Institute at TRIUMF''
(Vancouver, July 20-31, 1992)
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