Research

Ooguri is a theoretical physicist working on quantum field theory, quantum gravity, and superstring theory. He is working to discover mathematical structures in these theories and to use them to invent new theoretical tools to solve fundamental questions in physics.

Invited talks at Strings conferences

"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.

Strings '93 (Berkeley)
Strings '95 (Los Angeles)
Strings '96 (Santa Barbara)
Strings '97 (Amsterdam)
Strings '98 (Santa Barbara) Ooguri was an organizer.
Strings '99 (Potsdam) PDF slides
Strings 2000 (Ann Arbor) PDF slides
Strings 2001 (Mumbai) PDF slides
Strings 2002 (Cambridge) PDF slides
Strings 2003 (Kyoto) Ooguri was an organizer.
Strings 2004 (Paris) Summary Talk
Strings 2005 (Toronto) PDF slides
Strings 2006 (Beijing) PDF slides
Strings 2007 (Madrid) PDF slides
Strings 2008 (CERN) Summary Talk
Strings 2009 (Rome) PDF slides
Strings 2010 (Texas A&M) PDF slides
Strings 2012 (Munich) Summary Talk, video
Strings 2013 (Seoul) PDF slides, Video
Summer School associated with Strings 2014 (Princeton) Video 1 , Video 2 , Video 3
Strings 2016 (Beijing) Video
Strings 2017 (Tel Aviv) PDF slides, Video
Strings 2018 announcement at Strings 2017 PDF slides, Video
Strings 2019 (Brussels) PDF slides, video
Strings 2021 (São Paulo) PDF slides, video
Strings 2022 (Vienna) PDF slides, video
Strings 2023 (Waterloo, Canada) video

Ooguri was an organizers of Strings '98, Strings 2003, and Strings 2018 (chair).

Other invited lectures

String-Math 2023, Melbourne, Australia (10 -14 July, 2023)
Simons Workshop, Simons Center for Geometry and Physics (July 6, 2023)
University of Heidelberg (July 3, 2023)
Sommerfeld Lectures, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich (June 27 - 30, 2023)
Roberto Longo's 70th Birthday, Enrico Fermi Research Center, Rome (June 21 - 23, 2023)
SUSY 50, University of Minnesota (May 18 - 20, 2023)
Eastern Hemisphere Colloquium on Geometry and Physics, "Symmetry Resolved Density of States" (January 18, 2023)
Frontier of Mathematics, TSIMF, China (December 22-29, 2022)
International Symposium on Quantum-field Measurement Systems for Studies of the Universe, Particles, and Other Applications, KEK, Japan (December 12 - 15, 2022)
Tokyo Forum 2022 "Dialogue between Philosophy and Science: Towards a New Enlightenment" (December 1, 2022)
Seminar at NYU, "Symmetry-Resolved Density of States" (November 11, 2022)
Chiba University Science Lectureship Award Lecture, "Conditions on Quantum Gravity" (October 17, 2022)
Simons Summer Workshop, "Counting of States" (July 25, 2022)
Strings 2022 in Vienna, Summary Talk "Perspectives and Prospects" (July 22, 2022)
Verlinde Symposium in Amsterdam (July 14, 2022)
Opening Lecture, Tehran School on Swampland (May 16, 2022)
Colloquium, Kyoto University (April 28, 2022)
One World IAMP Mathematical Physics Seminar "Symmetry in QFT and Gravity" (April 19, 2022)
Western Hemisphere Colloquium on Geometry and Physics "Symmetry in QFT and Gavity" (January 24, 2022) [on-line]
Conference in honor of the 60th birthday of Atsushi Moriwaki, "Partition Functions" (December 2, 2021) [hybrid]
Yale University Particle Theory Seminar "Symmetry of QFT and Gravity" (November 30, 2021) [on-line]
Local Quantum Physics Colloquium "Symmetry of QFT and Gravity" (November 24, 2021) [on-line]
Benjamin Lee Lecture Series at APCTP, "Physics and Mathematics of Calabi-Yau Manifolds," Part 1 and Part 2 (November 1 and 2, 2021) [hybrid]
Korean Physical Society Meeting "Constraints on Quantum Gravity," Benjamin W. Lee Professorship Award Lecture (October 20, 2021) [on-line]
Humboldt Kolleg "Completeness of Gauge Charges in Quantum Gravity," Corfu, Greece (September 17 - 21, 2021) [hybrid]
Strings 2021 Summary Talk, São Paulo (June 21 - July 2, 2021) [on-line]
PASCOS 2021, South Korea (June 14-18, 2021) [on-line]
Colloquium, Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg, Germany (June 7, 2021) [on-line]
Theory Colloquium "Tangles to Narnia," Galileo Galilei Institute, Florence, Italy (February 17, 2021) [on-line]
UC Santa Cruz Colloquium (January 14, 2021) [on-line]
Harvard Center for the Fundamental Laws of Nature Seminar "Testing Swampland Conjectures" (August 3, 2020) [on-line]
Stanford Institute for Theoretical Physics Seminar "Stringy Tidal Effects Near Black Hole Photon Spheres" (July 27, 2020) [on-line]
Chair of Panel Discussion, QFT and Geometry Summer School (July 17, 2020) [on-line]
Technische Universität Wien Institute for Theoretical Physics Seminar (July 9, 2020) [on-line]
Discussion Moderator, Bootstrap 2020 (May 22, 2020) [on-line]
Nishina Memorial Lecture, Tokyo (December 6, 2019)
UC Berkeley Colloquium (November 25, 2019)
Theory Seminar, KITP, UC Santa Barbara (November 21, 2019)
Opening Symposium of the Institute for Advanced Research at Nagoya University (November 15, 2019)
Amherst Workshop "Theoretical Tests of the Swampland" (October 21 - 23)
KIPC Conference "Cosmic Controversy" (October 5 - 8, 2019)
Pauli Lectures "Physics and Mathematics of Calabi-Yau Manifolds," Helmholtz Graduate School at Hamburg University & DESY (September 30 - October 2, 2019)
IFT Conference "Navigating the Swampland" (September 27, 2019)
IFT-Madrid Colloquium (September 26, 2019)
10th Anniversary of J-PARC (September 24, 2019)
Aspen Center for Physics (July 29 - August 23, 2019)
Biennial European Physical Society Conference on High Energy Physics, Ghent (July 10 - 17, 2019)
Strings 2019, Brussels (June 25 - 29, 2019)
It from Qubit Workshop & School, Kyoto (June 17 - 28, 2019)
SUSY 2019, Texas (May 20 - 24, 2019)
String Field Theory and String Worldsheet Theory, Florence (May 6 - 10, 2019)
Bethe Colloquium, University of Bonn (April 25, 2019)
Princeton University, Hamilton Colloquium (April 11, 2019)
Princeton Gravity Initiative Workshop: Weak Gravity and Cosmic Censorship (April 10 - 12, 2019)
University of Chicago Colloquium (February 21, 2019)
Cornel Physics Colloquium (February 18, 2019)
CERN Winter School, 4 lectures (February 4 - 8, 2019)
DESY Colloquium (November 11, 2018)
Aspen Center for Physics Colloquium (August 23, 2018)
Simons Summer Workshop 2018, Simons Center (August 1, 2018)
50 Years of Veneziano Model, GGI Florence (May 14, 2018)
Feynman Centennial Symposium, Caltech (May 12, 2018)
Quantum Gravity and Holography, Kavli IPMU (April 2 - 6, 2018)
Harvard Physics Colloquium (26 March 2018)
Accelerating Universe, Sendai, Japan (February 11, 2018)
Spontaneous Symmetry Breaking, Singapore (January 16 - 19, 2018)
Distinguished Lecture, ICTS, Bangalore, India (January 15, 2018)
The 20th Anniversary of AdS/CFT, Princeton (Oct 31 - Nov 3, 2017)
Quantum Information in Quantum Gravity, UCB Vancouver (August 14 - 18, 2017)
Simons Summer Workshop, Simons Center (July 17, 2017)
String-Pheno 2017, Virginia Tech (July 3 - 7, 2017)
Strings 2017, Tel Aviv, Israel (June 26 - 30, 2017)
PASCOS 2017, Madrid, Spain (June 19 - 23, 2017)
Simons Symposium, Elmau, Germany (May 1 - 5, 2017)
Quantum Gravity, String Theory and Holography, Kyoto, Japan (April 3 - 7, 2017)
4 Lectures at String School, ICTP, Trieste, Italy (March 21 - 24, 2017)
Main Lecture, Japanese Physical Society Annual Meeting (March 19, 2017)
String Theory: Past and Present, ICTP, Bangalore, India (Jaunary 11 - 13, 2017)
It from Qubit Meeting,, Simons Center, Stony Brook (December 5 - 7, 2016)
Distinguished Lecture, NCTS, Taiwan (November 23, 2016)
75th Birthday Symposium for John Schwarz, Caltech (November 18 - 19, 2016)
Suntry Foundation Symposium, Tokyo, Japan (October 1, 2016)
Strings 2016, Beijing, China (August 1 - 5, 2016)
It from Qubit Summer School, Perimeter Institute, Canda (July 18 - 29, 2016)
Amsterdam String Workshop, Netherland (July 4 - 7, 2016)
It from Qubit Meeting, Kyoto, Japan (June 20 - 24, 2016)
Colloquium, CMSA, Harvard University, (May 4, 2016)
Nambu Memorial Symposium, University of Chicago (March 14, 2016)
75th Birthday Symposium for David Gross, Jerusalem, Israel (February 28 - March 3, 2016)
F-Theory at 20, Caltech (February 22 - 26, 2016)
String-Math 2015, Hainan Island, China (December 31, 2015 - January 4, 2016