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Robert H. Shurtz - Co-Academic Director - Physics teacher at Hawken School, Gate Mills, OH. He has been a source of many past team members. Bob has been coaching coaching the US Team since 2001 |
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| Co-Academic Director |
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Paul Stanley - Co-Academic Director - Dobson Professor of Physics and Astronomy 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 |
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| Coaches |
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Andrew Lin - 2008 Coach - Yale graduate - Silver Medalist in 1998 and Gold Medalist in 1999. Andrew was a junior coach from 2001 through 2003, and coach since 2004. |
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David Fallest - 2008 Coach - David Fallest - Graduate student at North Carolina State University currently conducting research in soft condensed matter. When not occupied with studying physics, he enjoys his favorite hobby - juggling. He is happy to have joined the coaching staff in 2008 |
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David Jones - 2008 Coach - David taught high school physics for 19 years at three different high schools in the Miami Dade County Public Schools. Three of his students over the years earned a spot on the US Physics Team. David also works for the College Board as an AP Physics Workshop Consultant. He is currently working at Florida International University teaching Physics I and II and working as a coordinator for a physics education and outreach grant titled CHEPREO. |
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Elena Yudovina |
Elena Yudovina - 2008 Junior Coach - Senior at Harvard in mathematics - team member in 2003 and gold medalist in 2004. In her time off from math and physics, Elena is avidly forgetting various live languages (English included) and regretting that she doesn't know any dead ones. She was a junior coach last year, and is delighted to be back. |
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| Lab Coach |
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Warren Turner - 2008 Senior Coach - Assistant Professor at Westfield State College in Massachusetts. Warren has been with the team since 1999 as a coach and senior lab coach in 2001 to Present |
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Safa Motesharrei - 2008 Assistant Lab Coach - Safa Motesharrei - Graduate student in physics and mathematics at the University of Maryland. His research is on Chaos theory in general. His basic hobby is to attack challenging problems. He enjoys playing piano and listening to various styles of music as well. He is delighted to work with the talented Olympiad students. |
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