Co - Academic Director Contact Mary Mogge - Co - Academic Director - Physics Department Chair at California State Polytechnic University, Pomona. Prior to becoming involved with the U.S. Physics Team, Mogge was the AAPT test editor. In 1996 and 1997 she was a coach for the U.S. Physics Team; 1998 senior coach; academic director since 1999.   Co - Academic Director Contact Robert H. Shurtz - Co - Academic Director - Physics teacher at Hawken School, Gate Mills, OH. He has been a source of many past team members. Shurtz has been a coach since 2001.   Coaches Contact Jing Gao - 2005 Coach - Associate Professor of Physics at the Kean University of New Jersey. During her thirteen years of university teaching, she gained first hand knowledge of teaching physics at both introductory and advanced, college and pre-college levels. Gao is a first year coach for the U.S. Physics Team.   Contact Andrew Lin - 2005 Coach - Yale student and silver medalist in 1998 and gold medalist in 1999. Lin was a junior coach from 2001 through 2003, and coach since 2004.   Contact Paul Stanley - 2005 Coach - Physics and Astronomy Associate Professor at Beloit College. His research involves classical and quantum chaos, and varies between highly theoretical, heavily computational, and playfully experimental. In his spare time he plays the trumpet semi-professionally and writes undergraduate physics textbooks. Stanley has been a coach since 2003.   Lab Coach Contact Warren Turner - 2005 Lab Coach - Associate Professor at Westfield State College in Massachusetts. Turner has been with the team since 1999 as a coach, and senior lab coach since 2001.