Hirosi Ooguri

Hiroshi Oguri (Japanese大 栗 博 司, Oguri, Hiroshi, in the English-speaking mostly alternatively after Kunrei system Hirosi Ooguri, born 1962 in Gifu, Gifu Prefecture) is a Japanese theoretical physicist who deals with quantum gravity and string theory.

Biography

Oguri in 1984 were his bachelor's degree in 1986 and his master's degree in theoretical physics at Kyoto University and received his doctorate in 1989 at the University of Tokyo, was there but previously from 1986 to 1989 assistant professor. After four years from 1990 to 1994 was professor at the Research Institute for Mathematical Sciences ( RIMS), Kyoto University. He was before his promotion 1988/89 at the Institute for Advanced Study and a post-doctoral researcher from 1989 to 1991 at the Enrico Fermi Institute at the University of Chicago ( Assistant Professor ) and from 1992 to 1993 at Harvard University ( Lyman Physics Laboratory ). In 1994 he became a professor at the University of California, Berkeley, and a Senior Scientist at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. Since 2000 he is Professor at Caltech (from 2007 Fred Kavli Professor of Theoretical Physics ). Since 2007 he is also a senior scientist at the Kavli Institute of the University of Tokyo.

He worked on two-dimensional conformal field theories, D- brane in the Calabi -Yau manifolds, the AdS - CFT correspondence, supersymmetric gauge field theories and their connection to superstring theory, quantum theory of black holes in string theory.

In 2008 he was awarded with Andrew Strominger and Cumrun Vafa the first Leonard Eisenbud Prize of the American Mathematical Society that they, the number of microstates ( Entropy ) in the quantum theory of black holes ( in particular black holes ) with topological string theory and Gromov -Witten invariants applied in conjunction. He was awarded the 2009 Nishina Prize in Japan and was a Senior U.S. Scientist of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation ( 2009). In 2008 he held the Takagi Lectures Japanese Mathematical Society. He is a Fellow of the American Mathematical Society.

He is since 2003 a member of the Aspen Center of Physics and whose advice and he was the scientific advisory board of the Kavli Center for Theoretical Physics in Santa Barbara and the Solvay Institute in Brussels. He was co-organizer of the string -98 Conference in Santa Barbara and the string -03 Conference in Kyoto.

He was co-editor of the 1997-2006 JHEP (Journal of High Energy Physics ), from 1997 by Advances in Theoretical and Mathematical Physics, Nuclear Physics B from 1998 and from 2006 to 2009 in Physical Review D.

Writings

• With O. Aharony, S. Gubser, Juan Maldacena, Y. Oz: Large N Field Theories, String Theory and Gravity, Physics Reports, Volume 323, 2000, p.183 -386, online
• With M. Bershadsky, S. Cecotti, C. Vafa: Kodaira - Spencer Theory of Gravity and Exact Results for Quantum String Amplitudes, Comm.Math.Phys, Volume 165, 1994, p.311 -428, online.