Hirosi Ooguri Career　　Research　　Teaching　　Service　　Links
	At the Annual Presidents Meeting of the Association of Pacific Rim Universities (June, 2009 at Caltech).
Memberships in advisory boards and professional societies: o Member, Advisory Board, Kvali Institute for Theoretical Physics, Santa Barbara (2005 – 2008). o Member, Advisory Board, International Solvay Institute, Brussels, Belgium (2008 – ). o Member, Scientific Advisory Board, Banff International Research Station (2008 – ). o General Member, Aspen Center for Physics (elected in 2003, re-elected in 2008). o Life Member, American Physical Society. o Member, American Mathematical Society. o Member, Soryushiron Group (a Japanese equivalent of DPF in APS). I have organized international conferences and workshops: Strings Conferences: The Strings Conference is the annual conference of our field. I have organized it twice. o Strings 98 at the University of California, Santa Barbara (1998). o Strings 2003 held in Kyoto, Japan (2003). I have also been on International Advisory Committees of Strings 2004 (Paris, France), Strings 2005 (Toronto, Canada), Strings 2006 (Beijing, China), Strings 2008 (CERN, Switzerland), Strings 2009 (Rome, Italy) and Strings 2010 (College Station, Texas). IPMU Conferences, Tokyo, Japan: o The Opening Symposium (2008). o Theoretical Physics and Mathematics in Asia (2008). o Focus Week on Quantum Black Holes (2008). o Focus Week on New Invariants and Wall Crossing (2009). Aspen Center for Physics Workshops: o “Duality in Physics and Mathematics” (1996). o “Strings, Branes, and Superpotentials” (2004). o “String Theory and Quantum Geomerty” (2007). o “Unity of String Theory” (2009). Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics Workshops, Santa Barbara, California: o “Duality in String Theory” (1998). o “Mathematical Structure in Strings Theory” (2005). International Center for Theoretical Physics Spring School, Trieste Italy: For 4 years, I was a Co-Director (together with Ashoke Sen) of the Spring School on String Theory and Related Topics: Spring School 2003, Spring School 2004, Spring School 2005, Spring School 2006 This school was featured in an article in an Italian newspaper. Galileo Galilei Institute Workshop, Florence, Italy: “String and M Theory Approaches to Particle Physics and Cosmology” (2007). I have had the honor of organizing two conferences in honor of the 60^th birthdays of our distinguished colleagues: o JHS/60, in honor of the 60^th birthday of John Schwarz (Caltech, 2001). o 30 Years of Mathematical Methods in High Energy Physics, in honor of the 60^th birthday of Tohru Eguchi (Kyoto, 2008). Other conferences: o String Theory Session at the DPF meeting at the College of William and Mary (2002). o Joint Meeting of DPF/APS and JPS in Honolulu, Hawaii (2006). o String Theory Session at International Congress of Mathematical Physics in Lisbon (2003). o Session Chair of the 23rd Solvay Conference in Physics in Brussels (2006). o Banff International Research Station Workshop, “Frontiers in String Theory” (2006). I am on the editorial boards of the journals: o Advances in Theoretical and Mathematical Physics (1997 - present). o Journal of High Energy Physics (1997 – 2006). o Nuclear Physics B (1998 - present). o Physical Review D (2006 - present). I have served on several committees at Caltech: 2001 – 2002 Physics Strategic Planning Committee. 2001 - 2006 Physics Colloquium Committee 2005 - 2006 Graduate School Admissions Committee 2001 - Physics Staffing Committee (faculty search committee), Co-chair in 2003 - 2009. 2001 - Prize Postdoctoral Fellowship Committee 2002 - 2008 Mathematics Appointments and Advisory Committee