Coaches

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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  JiaJia Dong

  Coach

  Assistant professor in the Physics Department, Bucknell University. Interests include non-equilibrium statistical mechanics, particularly in biological systems. Her interests also include using computer modeling and theoretical approaches, whereas she studies the stationary and dynamic properties of these systems.
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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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  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.