Kenneth K. Young Endowed Chair, Professor Contact Information rudner@uw.edu B415 Personal Website Fields of Interest Condensed Matter Quantum Information Courses Taught Winter 2026PHYS 522 A: Implementations in Quantum Information Autumn 2025PHYS 521 A: Quantum Information Spring 2025PHYS 505 A: Mechanics Winter 2025PHYS 522 A: Implementations in Quantum Information Autumn 2024PHYS 521 A: Quantum Information Spring 2024PHYS 505 A: Mechanics Winter 2024PHYS 576 B: Selected Topics in Experimental Physics Autumn 2023PHYS 521 A: Quantum Information Spring 2023PHYS 505 A: Mechanics News & Events Related News Faculty Spotlight: Marilena Loverde, Jiun-Haw Chu, Mark Rudner (April 28, 2026) Faculty search in experimental atomic, molecular, and optical physics (September 24, 2024) 2023 Brown Investigator Award (May 22, 2023) Related Events InQubator for Quantum Simulation (IQuS): Vari-Cool: a non-unitary quantum variational protocol for simulated cooling - April 7 2026, 11:30am Thouless Institute for Quantum Matter: Cooling algorithms for quantum many-body state preparation - December 11 2025, 10:30am Thouless Institute for Quantum Matter: Dipolar Rydberg atoms and the Dirac spin liquid - December 9 2025, 12:30pm InQubator for Quantum Simulation (IQuS): Programmable adiabatic demagnetization for systems with trivial and topological excitations - March 12 2025, 1:30pm Thouless Institute for Quantum Matter: Novel aspects of fractionalization in Chern bands - December 12 2024, 12:30pm Physics Colloquia: Feedback is a gift: unlocking new properties of quantum matter through non-equilibrium driving and control - October 14 2024, 4pm Thouless Institute for Quantum Matter: TIQM Summer Workshop 2024 - New developments in electronic quantum order: transport and dynamics - July 27 2024, 12am , July 28 2024, 12am , July 29 2024, 12am Thouless Institute for Quantum Matter: TIQM Winter Workshop 2024: New Developments in Fractionalization - January 13 2024, 12am , January 14 2024, 12am , January 15 2024, 12am Thouless Institute for Quantum Matter: From new materials to new devices: TBG phaser and drive-controlled anomalous Hall effect - October 19 2023, 12:30pm Thouless Institute for Quantum Matter: Circuit complexity and functionality: a thermodynamic perspective - October 12 2023, 12:30pm Thouless Institute for Quantum Matter: Floquet insulators and lattice fermions - July 27 2023, 12:30pm Thouless Institute for Quantum Matter: Simulating quantum materials with classical and quantum tensor networks - June 1 2023, 12:30pm Other Events: QIS in Physics: The Lindblad equation: not just for quantum optics anymore - November 1 2022, 1:30pm
