Coaches
Team Facts & News
The Olympiad is a nine-day international competition among pre-university students from more than 60 nations. — AAPT.ORG
Below you will find profiles and information on coaches and assistant coaches helping the Physics Team train for the world Physics Olympiad.
Director
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Paul Stanley
Academic Director
Paul is the Dobson Professor of Physics and Astronomy at Beloit College and the Chair of Natural Sciences. He has worked for the US Physics team since 2003. 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 he travels, having visited over fifty different countries.
Coaches
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Lucy Chen
Assistant Coach
Rising junior at Harvard College - silver medalist in 2011. Lucy is pursuing a joint Physics and Math major, with advanced standing in Statistics.
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David Fallest
Coach
Postdoctoral teaching scholar at North Carolina State University. While earning his Ph.D., he conducted soft condensed matter experiments and numerical astrophysics research. When not teaching or researching, David enjoys his favourite pastime -- juggling.
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Qiuzi Li
Coach
A PhD candidate in the Physics Department at University of Maryland-College Park. She's currently doing research in the area of condensed matter theory.
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Andrew Lin
Senior Coach
Andrew is an analyst and developer at Luminoso Technologies, where he teaches an army of computers to navigate the wilderness of human language. He graduated from Yale with a degree in physics in 2003. Andrew joined the coaching staff as a Junior Coach in 2001 and has been with the team ever since; he was a silver medalist in 1998 and a gold medalist in 1999.
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Marianna Mao
Coach
Rising senior at Harvard College-gold medalist in 2009, junior coach in 2011. Marianna's primary fields of study are physics, math, and computer science.
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