Hirosi Ooguri

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I am a theoretical physicist working on quantum field theory and quantum gravity. I am developing theoretical tools to apply superstring theory to fundamental questions in high energy physics, astrophysics, and cosmology.

My research strategy is to discover hidden mathematical structures in quantum field theory and superstring theory and to exploit them to invent new theoretical tools to investigate these theories.

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

My list of publication from SLAC Spires

(Citation Summary)

Online Lectures from Selected Conferences:

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”
Strings 2008	(CERN, Switzerland)	“Summary Talk” (video)
Strings 2009	(Rome, Italy)	“Topological Strings and Crystal Melting Revisited”
Strings 2010	(College Station, Texas)	Title to be announced.

Supergravity Conference:

o 30 Years of Supergravity, Paris, France

“Summary and Perspectives” (October 2007)

At Caltech:

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

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)

In Canada:

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