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.
Ooguri 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
given 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.)
- 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
Hiroshi Ooguri - Conference Summary Strings 2021
Ooguri was an organizers of Strings '98, Strings 2003, and Strings 2018 (chair).
Princeton Lectures on Topological Strings
given at the 2014 Princeton Summer School in Theoretical Physics.
Recent Plenary Talks and Invited Lectures
- 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, Universitat Wurzburg, 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)