Chapter 1347 You Should Think More About Young People

Sometimes, things are just such a coincidence.

If Lu Zhou knew what Chairman Swift was thinking at this moment, he would probably gladly accept the nomination from the International Union of Materials Research Societies and participate in the selection of the Union's annual awards.

Honor or no honor was secondary to him.

If he can make a small contribution to the peace, stability and mutual cooperation of the two countries in the next ten or even twenty years, he does not mind a visit to North America.

After all, compared with the vast universe, the benefits on the earth are too small.

In addition, it has been a long time since I visited Princeton, and Lu Zhou really misses his old friends.

Unfortunately, however, the International Federation of Materials Research Societies did not imply this in the nomination email.

Therefore, when Assistant Zhao brought the email to Lu Zhou, he just glanced at it and said.

"Reply a letter for me and reject it."

Thinking that he heard it wrong, Zhao Huan froze for a moment, looking at Lu Zhou in disbelief.

"Push, push off?"

Lu Zhou: "Yes."

Zhao Huan looked at Lu Zhou at a loss and said, "Yes, but this is the nomination letter from the International Union of Materials Research Societies. The annual award of the Union of Societies of Societies should be very important, right?"

This is a $100,000 award.

Although he knew that his boss was not short of money, Zhao Huan still felt sorry for the money for him.

Lu Zhou replied casually: "It is because of the importance that I hope they will consider more young scholars."

Although the Academy Alliance Annual Award is also a very valuable award, it is still far behind the Nobel Prize. With the aura around him now, it doesn't mean much to win another Nobel Prize, let alone an annual award issued by a mere academic union.

At this time, Lu Zhou suddenly noticed the embarrassed expression on Zhao Huan's face, and immediately understood what she was worried about, and a hint of bewilderment appeared on his face.

"Well then, I'll write this reply myself, so I won't bother you."

Hearing this sentence, although Zhao Huan still felt sorry for him, he was still relieved after all.

After all, it's okay if such a crucial thing is well written, but if something goes wrong and Academician Lu's meaning is not fully expressed, then she will have to take the blame.

Letting Zhao Huan go to prepare for his own lessons first, Lu Zhou turned on the computer, logged into the office mailbox, and began to edit the reply letter to the International Union of Materials Research Societies.

In about two or three lines, Lu Zhou simply thanked the International Association of Materials Research Societies for nominating him, and then politely and tactfully expressed his willingness to withdraw from the annual award selection...

"The implicit density functional method is a theory of computational materials that I accidentally concluded when I was studying carbon materials. Before that, I didn't expect to be able to rely on it to get any honor... Of course, I don't have it now."

"As I've said before in interviews, compared to someone like me who has lost my desire for honor and money and just hopes to uncover more of the mysteries of the universe in my lifetime, it's worth it for me. Giving out this kind of award has lost its meaning."

"I will find someone to do the report on the implicit functional density theory, but the medals are fine. I hope you can give more consideration to those young people who have more potential than me and need to be recognized more."

"They need these honors more than I do, and their career needs support!"

After typing the last punctuation, Lu Zhou checked the email from beginning to end, and after confirming that there was no mistake in expressing the meaning, he pressed the send button.

Then, he thought for a while, took out his cell phone, opened the address book, and called his little apprentice.

"Hello."

"……Hello?"

It was very quiet on the other end of the phone, and Han Mengqi's voice was also very low. It seemed that she was in a library or a similar place.

"What are you doing?"

"Self-study in the library... what's wrong?"

With a ballpoint pen in his hand, Lu Zhou leaned against the office chair, and said, "Well, I might ask you to do something, do you have any arrangements recently?"

"Eh? Arrangement, no, what's the matter—"

The voice on the other end of the phone suddenly became a little flustered, so that he almost couldn't suppress the voice, but although Lu Zhou felt strange, he didn't think too much, and said.

"There is a report meeting on computational materials science. If you are interested, can you go for me?"

"Ji, the report meeting of Computational Materials Science?"

The moment Han Mengqi heard this request, she froze for a moment, her restless heart finally calmed down, but then she couldn't help frowning slightly.

"No problem, no problem... But, I have already switched to pure mathematics research? I haven't touched computational materials for a long time..."

"It's okay, it's not a conflict, and it's a pity that you can review what you have learned before, and just forget all the things I taught you," Lu Zhou smiled and continued Said, "You have more than a month to prepare, and you can ask me if there is anything you don't know. Ah, but this is still voluntary. If you really don't want to, forget it."

Although he is a tutor, Lu Zhou rarely regards himself as a tutor, and most of the time he communicates with his students in a negotiating tone.

If Han Mengqi is really not interested, he won't force too much. Although it is a pity that this opportunity to make a difference in the international arena, personal choices still have to be respected.

Seemingly worried about something, Han Mengqi sighed with a headache after struggling for a while.

"Okay... I'll give it a try."

During this period of time, she has been studying the transcendence of the Riemann zeta function at odd positive integer points. This is also the doctoral topic assigned to her by Lu Zhou when she was under Lu Zhou's door.

However, the difficulty of this subject is just like its name. Although it is not as BT as the Riemann Hypothesis, it is by no means an easy task to solve it.

At that time, they agreed that as long as she could make any effective progress in this research direction—or enough progress to be published in a regional journal, she would be allowed to get a doctorate from herself.

And if she can't complete this task, she will never be able to successfully graduate from her. Even if she is the cousin of the senior sister, Lu Zhou will never show mercy on this point.

Of course, Lu Zhou also left her a way out, which is to continue the research of computational materials science.

It's just that Han Mengqi has never considered this retreat, nor does she intend to consider it at all.

Now that the research has just entered a dead end, it is better to change your mind while going out to relax...

Thinking so, Han Mengqi continued to ask.

"It's convenient to ask, where did you go to make the report?"

Lu Zhou said with a hearty smile: "It should be in Boston. This academic report is at the April meeting of the International Union of Materials Research Societies. I will send you the information about the meeting in a while. Don't worry about the travel expenses. First-class air tickets and five The star hotel will be fully reimbursed, remember to have fun, and if you meet my old friends, remember to say hello to them for me."

Han Mengqi: "..."

The International Federation of Materials Research Societies...

I didn't expect it to be such an important meeting.

She suddenly regretted that she agreed so hastily.