Hirosi Ooguri

Hirosi Ooguri
Born	1962 Gifu Prefecture
Nationality	Japanese
Fields	Theoretical Physics
Institutions	California Institute of Technology
Alma mater	Kyoto University
Notable awards	Leonard Eisenbud Prize　 Humboldt Research Award Nishina Memorial Prize American Academy of Arts and Sciences

Hirosi Ooguri (大栗 博司, Ōguri Hiroshi, born 1962) is a theoretical physicist at California Institute of Technology. He is a leading theorist in high energy physics and works at the interface of elementary particle physics, string theory, and related mathematics.

Hirosi Ooguri discovers hidden geometric and algebraic structures in quantum field theory and superstring theory, and exploits them to invent new theoretical tools to investigate these theories. In particular, he developed the topological string theory to compute Feynman diagrams in superstring theory and used it to solve mysterious quantum mechanical properties of black holes. He also made fundamental contributions to 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.^[1]

Career

After finishing his graduate study in 2 years at Kyoto University, Ooguri became an Assistant Professor with tenure at the University of Tokyo at the age of 24. After a year at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, he held faculty appointments at the University of Chicago and at the Research Institute for Mathematical Sciences in Kyoto University. In 1994, Ooguri became a Professor at the University of California at Berkeley^[2] and was appointed a Faculty Senior Scientist at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in 1996. Since 2000 he has been at Caltech, where he is Fred Kavli Professor of Theoretical Physics.^[3] In 2007, he helped establish the Kavli Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe at the University of Tokyo, where he is a principal investigator. In 2014, he was appointed as the Founding Director of the Walter Burke Institute for Theoretical Physics at Caltech.

Awards

• Leonard Eisenbud Prize for Mathematics and Physics, awarded by the American Mathematical Society (2008).^[4] This was the inaugural prize, which he shared with Andrew Strominger and Cumrun Vafa.
• Takagi Lecturer, the only named lecture series of the Mathematical Society of Japan (2008).^[5]
• Humboldt Research Award from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation (2009).
• Nishina Memorial Prize from the Nishina Foundation (2009).
• Simons Investigator Award (2012).
• Fellow of the American Mathematical Society, 2012.^[6]
• Kodansha Prize for Science books (2013).
• Chunichi Cultural Prize (2016).
• Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Other activities

Ooguri has organized many international conferences and workshops, including Strings `98 in Santa Barbara,^[7] Strings 2003 in Kyoto, ^[8] and Strings 2018 in Okinawa. He is a trustee of the Aspen Center for Physics.

Ooguri has been on the editorial boards of Advances in Theoretical and Mathematical Physics, Journal of High Energy Physics (1997–2006), Nuclear Physics B (1998 - 2013), Physical Review D (2006 - 2009) and Communications in Mathematical Physics (2014 - 2015). He has also served on various boards and advisory committees.

References

External links

• Official Website