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Hirosi Ooguri
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Dr. Ooguri is a theoretical physicist working on quantum field theory, quantum gravity, and superstring theory. His research strategy is to discover mathematical structures in these theories and to exploit them to invent new theoretical tools to solve fundamental questions in physics.

In particular, he developed the topological string theory to compute Feynman diagrams of superstring theory and used it to solve mysterious quantum mechanical properties of black holes. He also worked on conformal field theory in two dimensions, D branes in Calabi-Yau manifolds, the AdS/CFT correspondence, and properties of supersymmetric field theories and their relation to superstring theory.

Invited Talks

How to Quantize Gravity - Hirosi Ooguri

Video of Ooguri's talk at the Feynman Centennial Symposium, Caltech (5/12/2018)

"Strings" is the most important annual conference in string theory and has been held every year since 1995.

Ooguri has given invited talks at the following Strings Conferences.

(Thanks to Yuji Tachikawa for his archiving work.)

Hiroshi Ooguri - Conference Summary Strings 2012

Ooguri was an organizers of Strings '98, Strings 2003, and Strings 2018 (chair). Video of Ooguri's summary talk at Strings 2012 in Munich

Lectures on Topological String Theory

Videos of three lectures at the Summer School at the Arnold Sommerfeld Center at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, München (August, 2010).

Recent Plenary Talks and Invited Lectures