Great Country Academician

After the relevant research and development were arranged, the work of the Institute of Nuclear Energy officially entered the second phase.

With this group of researchers, Xu Chuan devoted his energy to the research and development of new semiconductor materials.

If it is simply to reproduce the material in the mind, it will not take too long.

Give him enough materials and equipment, plus two or three assistants, and he can produce the corresponding finished product in at most twenty days.

This is because the manufacturing process of the semiconductor material is relatively complicated. If it is the previous protective material, he can finish it in ten days.

After all, the nuclear beta radiation energy accumulation and conversion mechanism technology is the result of his first Nobel Prize in his previous life. He is very clear about every detail and has an indelible memory in his mind.

Simple re-engraving does not take much time, funds and materials for him.

You can directly take out the achievements of your previous life, and know all the best routes to synthesize the materials throughout the whole process, without any other research and development process, without any other experimental data, which is too strange.

Material research and development is not like solving a mathematical problem. Mathematics only requires you to publish the proof process. As for how much work you did before writing the proof process, most people don’t care. You just need to be able to explain the doubts of your peers. enough.

But every step and every item of data in material research and development is recorded in equipment and materials, which are of high value.

Of course, the process of solving mathematical problems also has high value, but this value is more personal.

On the other hand, I took this opportunity to collect some material data for modeling computational chemistry.

Computational chemistry models require a huge amount of experimental data on chemical materials, which is why Xu Chuan joined hands with two top universities, Mizuki and NTU.

If possible, after the initial model is completed, go to other top universities to borrow their chemical experiment databases.

Including Princeton, it would be great if you can borrow it.

In addition, the one billion project scientific research funds are still in the first batch, so it is impossible to use them?

Although he didn't do much research in China in his previous life, he still knows the method of allocation and use of domestic research funds.

After all, he followed Academician Chen Zhengping during his university and doctoral period, and he was able to get in touch with various experiments frequently, and he was also in charge of many projects.

In a sense, there is something strange or interesting about domestic research funding.

Restricted by the expenditure system of domestic scientific research funds, if there is still research diameter left by the end of the project, not only will no one praise you, but you may be criticized instead.

Although usually the problem can be concluded if the project funds are not spent, it is not necessary to spend all the funds to complete the problem.

After all, it is very difficult to spend all the project funds just right, and there will usually be surplus or deficiency.

But if you have a lot of scientific research funds left after the project is completed, for example, if you apply for a one million grant and there are more than 20% left after the completion of the project, there is a 80 to 90% probability that you will be refunded. batch.

On the one hand, the reason lies in some deep-rooted thoughts in China.

For example, you can do things only if you can spend money, and you can’t do anything without spending money; as long as you can produce results, it doesn’t matter if you spend a lot of money, and no one will say that you are wasting scientific research funds or something.

On the other hand, if there are so many remaining, it means that your budget control is unreasonable.

If you still have a lot of unused balance after the completion of the project, the person in charge of the review may complain why you applied so much at the beginning, and didn’t you have any planning and calculations?

Then it will write down a sum for you in the notebook, and next time you apply for scientific research funds, maybe you will be given a discount or something, such as applying for 1 million and granting you 800,000 or something. This is nothing unusual.

Of course, these are for ordinary professors or scientific research staff.

For giants at the academician level, if there is a surplus of scientific research funds or something, no one will say anything, but they will think that you are saving money for the country.

As for Xu Chuan himself, for the scientific research funds approved by the state, he will not take them into his pocket, and he has no intention of frugally saving, as long as the corresponding funds are used where they should be used.

Whether it is cultivating talents for the country or building a mathematical model of computational chemistry, these are all necessary expenses.

The busy days in the laboratory passed quickly. In the blink of an eye, it was the beginning of December in the lunar calendar. If you count the Gregorian calendar, the time has already arrived in January of the new year 2019.

On this day, when Xu Chuan had just finished his breakfast and was about to change into his lab coat and enter the laboratory, a call came to his mobile phone.

I took out the phone and looked at it. It was President Liu Gaojun of Nantah University calling.

"Hey, Professor Xu, I didn't disturb your research." The phone was connected, and a smiling voice came from the other end.

Xu Chuan smiled and said, "I was just about to enter the laboratory, principal, your call is really accurate."

"Fortunately, fortunately, if you go in now, I guess I'll have to wait until noon again." Liu Gaojun laughed on the other end of the phone.

This person entered the laboratory, and the Nobel Prize phone call is not answered, and now he is well-known in the entire academic circle.

Xu Chuan asked with a smile, "Principal, what do you want from me?"

"Hey, it's like this. This year has passed again, and many outstanding students have been born in the school. Isn't the winter vacation approaching soon? It's started, I don't know if it's inconvenient for you, come here to present an award to the students of our school, give a message of encouragement or something?"

"So it's this one. I thought the school was going to give me an award." Xu Chuan suddenly understood and said with a smile.

"If you want, we can also arrange a best professor award for you." On the other end of the phone, Liu Gaojun joked with a smile.

Xu Chuan blushed, coughed twice, and said, "Ahem, forget it, this is just a joke."

Isn't it a shame that he, a Nobel Prize winner and Fields Medalist, competed with a group of college students and university professors for awards.

Moreover, after he returned to China in August this year, even though he had a professor title at Nantah University, he hadn't taught a single class. The school awarded him the best professor.

After a pause, he continued, "When is the specific time? Let me check my arrangement."

Liu Gaojun: "Just two days later, on January 10th, after this meeting, the school will almost be on winter vacation."

Xu Chuan thought for a while and said, "That should be fine. I'll go back on the tenth."

Liu Gaojun smiled and said, "Then I will trouble you."

After hanging up the phone, Xu Chuan stuffed the phone into his pocket and put on his white coat.

Speaking of which, after he came back from winning the Nobel Prize, he didn’t seem to have given a speech at Nantah University.

Shaking his head, Xu Chuan withdrew his thoughts. Just as he was about to enter the laboratory, the phone in his pocket vibrated again.

This made him a little curious, how could anyone call him so punctually when he was at work?

He took out his mobile phone, and there was an unfamiliar number on the caller ID. Looking at the beginning, it seemed to be from the country opposite his feet.

After thinking about it, he still connected the phone.

Swiping his thumb lightly across the screen, Xu Chuan asked, "Hi, hello, who is it?"

"Hello, Professor Xu, I'm James Carlson, the director of the Clay Institute of Mathematics. I hope I didn't disturb you." A middle-aged man's voice came from the other side of the phone.

Hearing the other party's self-introduction, Xu Chuan suddenly understood, and said with a smile, "Hello, Professor Carlson."

"It's a pleasure to call you. I wonder if it's convenient for you to call now." James Carlson asked with a smile.

"Of course." Xu Chuan nodded and replied, he probably understood what the other party wanted him for.

On the opposite side, Carlson cleared his throat, and then said solemnly: "Hi, dear Professor Xu Chuan, I am James Carlson, the director of the Clay Institute of Mathematics and the chairman of the Scientific Advisory Committee."

"According to the review opinions of the six reviewers who reviewed the Hodge conjecture proof paper, as well as the opinions of the International Mathematical Union and the submission object "Annual Journal of Mathematics", and after a year of precipitation, we believe that you have completed the seven Proof of one of the Great Millennium Puzzles, 'Hodge's Standard Conjecture'."

"The solution to this problem will greatly promote the development and application of mathematics. We sincerely thank you for your contribution to the development of mathematics and even the world's science."

"Therefore, after voting by all members of the Clay Institute's board of directors and council, you will receive the one million rice gold prepared by the Cray Institute of Mathematics in advance."

"The award will be presented on January 20, 2019 at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton. We look forward to your arrival. The relevant invitation letter and detailed email have been sent to your mailbox, please check it in time."

On the phone, James Carlson said what Xu Chuan expected, but it was a little unexpected.

"Wait, I remember that the Clay Mathematics Institute's award ceremony for the seven millennium problems was not at the French Academy in Paris? How did it move to the Princeton Institute for Advanced Study this time?"

Listening to Carlson's words, Xu Chuan curiously interrupted the other party and asked.

On the opposite side, James Carlson smiled and replied: "On the one hand, of course it is to make this event even bigger. Believe us, holding it at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton will make this century ceremony even more brilliant!"

"On the other hand, don't you think that the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton is the real holy land of mathematics?"

“As glorious as it was, the Institut de France in Paris is a thing of the past, and now the Princeton Institute for Advanced Study is the pinnacle of glory.”

"The solution to each of the seven millennium problems is worthy of being awarded by the top mathematics academy."

Xu Chuan nodded and said, "So that's the case."

Carlson said with a smile: "Yes, and Princeton is also your alma mater, so after comprehensive consideration, we have moved the award venue to the United States. We look forward to your arrival."

Xu Chuan: "I will consider it."

After hanging up the phone, Xu Chuan shook his head.

For him, it is Sima Zhao's wish to move the award ceremony for the Seven Millennium Problems from the Institut de France in Paris to the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton.

Perhaps the Clay Institute of Mathematics really wanted to make this award ceremony a bit more glorious, and the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton was also happy to accept this award ceremony, after all, it is the glory of the seven millennium problems.

But the idea of ​​relocating the location of the awards ceremony is definitely not the Clay Institute's own.

It is impossible for them to break the rules they have set. Anyone with this energy can guess with their toes.

He's gone, and he's definitely not coming back.

Not to mention moving the award ceremony from the Institut de France in Paris to the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, even if the award ceremony is still in the original place, it is impossible for him to go out.

A Nobel Prize medal might allow him and Hua Guo to take a risk, but the Clay Mathematics Prize does not qualify for that. One million meters in gold sounds like a lot, even close to the Nobel prize money, but it lacks the honor plus In fact, that's it.

Shaking his head, Xu Chuan hung up the phone and put the phone back into his pocket.

There was a voice in my ear: "Professor, I seem to have heard the Cray Mathematics Institute and the seven millennium problems, and one million meters of gold or something. Did Hodge guess that? Are you going to accept the award?" ?”

He turned his head to look, and a young researcher beside him was watching with curiosity and anticipation.

Nodding his head, Xu Chuan replied, "Indeed, the Clay Institute of Mathematics just called me and invited me to accept the award."

"Wow! Amazing professor! When will you receive the award? Will it be broadcast live like the Nobel Prize ceremony?" The young researcher let out a wow, and then asked excitedly.

Xu Chuan shook his head and said, "But I'm not going."

Hearing this, the young researcher was stunned for a moment, and asked in surprise, "Why? Is this a million-dollar prize?"

Xu Chuan smiled and said, "Because I don't have time."

"These are the seven millennium problems, professor, are you really not going to go?" the young researcher asked in disbelief.

Xu Chuan smiled and said, "Yes, but it has been solved, hasn't it? Its honor comes from itself, not an award."

"Just like Perleman, even if he didn't accept the award, no one can deny that he solved the Poincaré conjecture."

"Okay, let's get ready, work hard these days, and strive to get out the second-stage semiconductor materials as soon as possible, and we can also take the annual leave earlier and have a rest."

Hearing this, the young researcher opened his mouth, hesitant to speak, but after muttering for a while, he didn't say anything, turned and entered the laboratory.

Xu Chuan smiled, but did not tell the other party the truth about his refusal to accept the award. After all, there are still many scholars who want to study abroad, so it is not appropriate to make the relationship too tense.

In comparison, he now hopes to finish the work at hand earlier.

If it goes well, the second phase of semiconductor materials will probably be completed around the new year. As for the test, it will depend on the research during the Chinese New Year. No one is willing to stay on duty.

If there is, you can do part of the test during the Chinese New Year; if not, you can wait until the end of the year for the test.

He can still distinguish between work and life.

Although I often stay up late and work overtime or something, I still have to take a good rest during the Chinese New Year. At least, I have to spend time with my family.

As for the Cray Mathematics Institute awards, I'll email them back in the evening.

If they were willing to relocate the awarding location to Huaguo, he would still be willing to accept the award. After all, giving him one million gold is not for nothing.

But in America, forget it.