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	Hirosi Ooguri Fred Kavli Professor of Theoretical Physics
	California Institute of Technology Pasadena, CA 91125

In the past few hundred years, scientists have searched for fundamental laws of nature by exploring phenomena at shorter and shorter distances. Surprisingly, there are reasons to think that the hierarchical structure of nature will terminate at 10^-35meter, the so-called Planck length. Space and time do not exist beyond the Planck scale, and they should emerge from a more fundamental structure. Superstring theory is a leading candidate for a mathematical framework to describe physics at the Planck scale since it contains all the ingredients necessary to unify general relativity and quantum mechanics and to deduce the Standard Model of Particle Physics. I am trying to develop theoretical tools to apply superstring theory to questions relevant to high energy physics, astrophysics, and cosmology.

My research interests are in Theoretical High Energy Physics, in particular in Quantum Field Theories and String Theory.

I am a member of Caltech Particle Theory Group.

I am also affiliated to Moore Center for Theoretical Cosmology and Physics at Caltech.

I am also a principal investigator of the Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe at the University of Tokyo.

I was an undergraduate (1980 – 1984) and then a graduate student (1984 – 1986) in Kyoto University.

I have held research and teaching positions at:

University of Tokyo	Assistant Professor	1986 – 1989
Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton	Research Associate	1988 – 1989
University of Chicago	Assistant Professor	1989 – 1990
RIMS at Kyoto University	Associate Professor	1990 – 1994
Harvard University	Visiting Scholar	1992 – 1993
University of Paris VI	Visiting Professor	Fall 1994
University of California, Berkeley	Professor	1994 – 2000
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory	Faculty Senior Scientist	1996 – 2000
California Institute of Technology	Professor	2000 – present

For more details, see my One-Page CV or Full Curriculum Vitae (updated in 2008).

Awards and Honors:

Leonard Eisenbud Prize for Mathematics and Physics (American Mathematical Society, 2008)

Press release article

Takagi Lecturer (Mathematical Society of Japan, 2008)

Humboldt Research Award (Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, 2008)

Research: My list of publication from SLAC Spires (Citation Summary) Seminars in our group: String Theory Seminar Journal Club Online Lectures:

Strings Conferences:

Strings 93	(Berkeley, California)	“Quantization of the Mirror Symmetry”
Strings Conference was not held in 1994.
Strings 95	(Los Angeles, California)	“Loop Amplitudes of N=2 String”
Strings 96	(Santa Barbara, California)	“D-branes on Calabi-Yau Spaces and Their Mirrors”
Strings 97	(Amsterdam, Netherlands)	“Strong Coupling Dynamics of Four-Dimensional N=1 Gauge Theories from M Theory Fivebrane”
Strings 98	(Santa barbara, California)	I was an organizer of this conference.
Strings 99	(Potsdam, Germany)	“Wilson Loops in Large N Theories”
Strings 2000	(Ann Arbor, Michigan)	“Strings in AdS3 and the SL(2,R) WZW Model”
Strings 2001	(Mumbai, India)	“How Non-commutative Gauge Theories Couple to Gravity”
Strings 2002	(Cambridge, UK)	“Worldsheet Derivation of a Large N Duality”
Strings 2003	(Kyoto, Japan)	I was an organizer of this conference.
Strings 2004	(Paris, France)	“Concluding Remarks”
Strings 2005	(Toronto, Canada)	“Topological String Theory”
Strings 2006	(Beijing, China)	“Landscape of Supersymmetry Breaking Vacua in Geometrically Realized Gauge Theories ”
Strings 2007	(Madrid, Spain)	“On the Ubiquity of Meta-Stable Vacua”

Supergravity:

o 30 Years of Supergravity, Paris, France

“Summary and Perspectives” (October 2007)

Conferences at Caltech:

o String Theory at the Millennium	“Long Strings in AdS3, Short Strings in CY3,” (January, 2000)
o JHS/60 (John Schwarz’s 60th Birthday Conference)	“Strings in AdS3 and the SL(2,R) WZW Model,” (November, 2001)

Talks given at Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics, Santa Barbara:

o Director’s blackboard talk	“Supersymmetry and Duality, Before 1995,” (March, 1998)
o Geometry and Physics mini-program	“The AdS/CFT Correspondence,” (August, 1999)
o DavidFest	“Strings in AdS3,” (March, 2001)
o M-Theory program	“Strings in AdS3 and the SL(2,R) WZW Model," (April, 2001)
o M-Theory program	“Seiberg-Witten Transforms of Non-commutative Solitons,” (June, 2001)
o Theory semina	“Topological Strings and Black Holes,” (April, 2005)
o Director’s blackboard talk	“Probing Geometry by Strings,” (September, 2005)

Talks given in Canada:

o PITP Showcase Conference, “Baby Universes in Quantum Gravity” (May, 2005)

Popular Talks:

o Bay Area Wonderfest 2000 at UC Berkeley, “Is the Universe 11-Dimensional?,” (March, 2000)

o High school teachers’ educational forum at KITP, Santa Barbara, “What String Theory has taught us about Quantum Gravity and Unification of Forces,” (May, 2001)

Popular Science Articles written for Japanese Magazines:

o “Toward Unification of General Relativity and Quantum Mechanics,” Daigaku eno Suugaku (1992) 68; a mathematics magazine for high school students.

o “Perspective from Superstring Theory,” Suugaku Seminar, Special Edition on Mathematical Physics, 486 (2002) 10; a Japanese equivalent of Mathematical Intelligencer.

o “Topological String Theory and Its Applications,” Butsuri (to appear); the magazine of Japanese Physical Society.

Teaching:

I have taught various undergraduate and graduate courses in physics.

In 1999, I was voted as one of the best instructors by graduating seniors of UC Berkeley.

The following is a list of graduate students who have received Ph.D.’s under my supervision:

UC Berkeley o Zheng Yin o Harlan Robins o Jonathan Tannenhauser Caltech: o Peter Lee o Jong-Won Park o Takuya Okuda

Service:

o member, Advisory Board, Kvali Institute for Theoretical Physics, Santa Barbara.

o life member, American Physical Society.

o general member, Aspen Center for Physics.

o member, Soryushiron Group (a Japanese equivalent of DPF in APS).

I have organized several conferences and workshops:

Strings Conferences:

o Strings 98 at the University of California, Santa Barbara (1998).

o Strings 2003 held in Kyoto, Japan (2003).

o International Advisory Committees of Strings 2004 (Paris, France), Strings 2005 (Toronto, Canada), Strings 2006 (Beijing, China), and Strings 2008 (CERN, Switzerland).

Aspen Workshops:

o Aspen Center for Physics Workshop, “Duality in Physics and Mathematics” (1996).

o Aspen Center for Physics Workshop, “Strings, Branes, and Superpotentials” (2004).

o Aspen Center for Physics Workshop, “String Theory and Quantum Geomerty” (2007).

Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics Workshops:

o Institute for Theoretical Physics Program, “Duality in String Theory” (1998).

o Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics Program, “Mathematical Structure in Strings Theory” (2005).

Trieste Spring Schools:

o Co-Director of the Spring School on String Theory and Related Topics at International Center for Theoretical Physics, Trieste, Italy:

Spring School 2003, Spring School 2004, Spring School 2005, Spring School 2006

See also: An article in an Italian newspaper about the Trieste Spring School.

Galileo Galilei Institute for Theoretical Physics Workshop:

o GGI Workshop, “String and M Theory Approaches to Particle Physics and Cosmology” (2007).

Other meetings I have helped organize:

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