Hirosi Ooguri

 

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At the Annual Presidents Meeting of

the Association of Pacific Rim Universities

(June, 2009 at Caltech).

 

 

Memberships in advisory boards and professional societies:

 

o   General Member (elected in 2003, re-elected in 2008), Member of the Board of Trustee (elected in 2011), Scientific Secretary (2011-2012), Aspen Center for Physics.

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 – 2010).

 

o   Life Member, American Physical Society.

o   Member, American Mathematical Society.

o   Member, Mathematical Society of Japan

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.

Ooguri has organized it twice.

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

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

 

Ooguri has 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   gDuality in Physics and Mathematicsh (1996).

o   gStrings, Branes, and Superpotentialsh (2004).

o   gString Theory and Quantum Geomertyh (2007).

o   gUnity of String Theoryh (2009).

 

 

Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics Workshops, Santa Barbara, California:

 

o   gDuality in String Theoryh (1998).

o   gMathematical Structure in Strings Theoryh (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:

 

gString and M Theory Approaches to Particle Physics and Cosmologyh (2007).

 

 

I have had the honor of organizing two conferences

in honor of the 60th birthdays of our distinguished colleagues:

 

o   JHS/60, in honor of the 60th birthday of John Schwarz (Caltech, 2001).

o   30 Years of Mathematical Methods in High Energy Physics, in honor of the 60th 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, gFrontiers in String Theoryh (2006).

 

 

Ooguri is 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).

 

 

Ooguri has 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

2010 -         Deputy Chair of the Division of Physics, Mathematics, and Astronomy