Chapter 196: Grand Prize Announced!

Professor Ma was slightly stunned, as if he didn't expect that the request made by himself, an old senior, would be rejected by this junior.

Although there was still a smile on his face, it was visibly colder.

With a bit of displeasure in his tone, Professor Ma raised his voice a little: "Why? Are you still worried that I am old and can't keep up with your thoughts? Or do you think I need to worry about the few taels in your stomach? ink?"

Lu Zhou smiled, and responded calmly: "Why, it's just a personal habit."

Staring at Lu Zhou for a long time, Professor Ma said with a smirk: "Heh, Jin University's juniors are really promising. That's fine. If you are not interested in communicating, then you are not interested. I am an old man and I will not delay you. It's time to do it yourself."

Inexplicably throwing down the sentence "I can do it myself", the old man turned around and left.

Wei Siyang was in a dilemma. Although he wanted to make friends with Lu Zhou, he didn't dare to offend his professor. After hesitating for two seconds, he finally didn't dare to say a word to Lu Zhou, and walked behind the old professor.

Looking at Professor Ma's back, Lu Zhou was slightly taken aback.

I don't know if it was his illusion, but he always felt that after being rejected by himself, the old professor seemed a little unhappy?

It's strange, there are still people in this world who are so good at being teachers, even to the point of "I won't be happy if I don't teach you a few words".

So passionate about education.

Looking at the back of that Ma Changan, Lu Zhou silently praised him in his heart.

...

The next day, the 12th National Congress of Members of the Huaguo Mathematical Society and the 80th Anniversary Academic Conference officially kicked off.

In the auditorium of Beijing Normal University, there are huge crowds of people, and the red carpet is completely dark at first glance.

The meeting hasn't started yet, and everyone is bragging.

Domestic academic conferences are very different from those abroad, but some places are still highly consistent, that is, academic exchanges are only the secondary purpose of participating in such conferences, and the most important thing is to use this opportunity to make more friends.

Unfortunately, before the meeting officially started, Lu Zhou had accidentally offended a "big boss".

Although he felt that his refusal was rather tactful...

Perhaps, he should change to a white lie, pretending to be helpless about Polignac's conjecture?

After entering the arena with Academician Lu, Lu Zhou went to the toilet on the way, and when he came back, he didn't see the old academician.

After walking around the venue, I still couldn't find where the old gentleman was, but I did find his senior brother.

When he found this brother, he was chatting with a man wearing glasses who looked a bit blessed.

Lu Zhou stepped forward and was about to say hello, but Senior Brother Yan spotted him first, greeted him enthusiastically, and introduced him with a smile.

"Come on, let me introduce you, this is Professor Yang Zhiguang, an outstanding alumnus of our University of Kings!"

Upon hearing the name, Lu Zhou was taken aback for a moment, and then respectfully said, "Senior Brother Yang!"

This Senior Brother Yang is amazing. Lu Zhou has seen his name on the wall of outstanding alumni of Jin University.

After graduating from King University in 1986, he received a master's degree from the Chinese Academy of Sciences in 1989 and went to the University of Augsburg in Germany to study. After obtaining a doctorate, he also did two years of scientific research at the Technical University of Munich, which is commonly known as a postdoctoral fellow.

He returned to China in 1994 and worked in the Institute of Mathematics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. He was selected into the "Hundred Talents Program" of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and won major awards such as the "Feng Kang Award for Scientific Computing" and the "Second Prize of the National Natural Science Award".

Of course, the best thing is that at the International Congress of Mathematicians in Spain in 2006, this person gave a 45-minute report.

At the same time, he was also the only 45-minute speaker from mainland China at that conference of mathematicians!

With these qualifications, he was selected as an academician for 17 years, this brother is definitely stable!

However, due to different research fields, Lu Zhou didn't know much about what he was researching. He only knew that he was engaged in numerical analysis and scientific calculation.

This direction is not pure mathematics, but is biased towards the field of applied mathematics, which is closely related to engineering.

Lu Zhou was not surprised to meet this senior brother here.

It's just that what he didn't expect was that this college student in the 1980s turned out to be as young as a post-80s generation. It wasn't for Brother Yan's introduction, he wouldn't have noticed that this kind-faced "little fat man" was almost fifty years old.

On the contrary, his Senior Brother Yan is only in his early 30s, and his hairline is already dangerous...

"Hello, hello." Yang Zhiguang smiled and held Lu Zhou's hand, and said enthusiastically, "We were just talking about your glorious deeds. I didn't expect to meet you so soon. It's really a pleasure to meet you!"

Lu Zhou smiled and said modestly: "I don't have any glorious deeds, but your research results are all visible things, and they are made to benefit the country and the people. The research I did is theoretical, no Worth mentioning!"

After a bit of politeness and business bragging, Senior Brother Yan, who is a physicist, couldn't get in the way when he stood by.

Holding Lu Zhou's junior brother's hand, Yang Zhiguang also continued to be modest and said: "Junior brother, don't belittle yourself, your paper on computational materials is a textbook-level example, filling our country's computational materials. This piece is blank! Why isn’t it beneficial to the country and the people? Our Professor Liu from the Institute of Polymer Materials of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has great respect for your achievements! Every time I talk about you, he admires your work. You have built a bridge between materials science and mathematics, and ignited the fire of computational materials science. Not to mention number theory, even international masters have praised you."

Hold the grass, this is too exaggerated!

It's just a paper on computational materials science, how can it fill in the gaps?

This business bragging made Lu Zhou a little flustered, not knowing what to say.

Fortunately, Academician Lu arrived in time and rescued him.

"Okay, you two blow it to each other, I can't listen anymore!"

Turning around and seeing Academician Lu, Yang Zhiguang smiled embarrassedly and said, "I'm not bragging, I'm telling the truth."

Although he is almost fifty years old, he is only a junior in front of a senior in his seventies like Academician Lu.

Not to mention, he also took the old man's physics class.

Master and apprentice meet and reminisce about the old days.

Looking at the students he had taught in the past, Academician Lu nodded with satisfaction, and said with a small smile in a chatty tone: "In two years, it's time to evaluate academicians."

Yang Zhiguang smiled modestly: "I don't know yet, everything is subject to organizational arrangements."

"That's fine. I won't inquire about it until the organization arranges it. Our Mathematics Department of Jinda University hasn't produced too many powerful characters. The batch that graduated in the 1980s is counted as one of you. This is the junior in front of you," Academician Lu patted Lu Zhou on the shoulder and said with a smile, "You two should work hard, the future of the country depends on you young people."

Senior Brother Yan, who had never had a chance to interject, came over and finally found the opportunity to interject.

"Boss, what about me?"

"You?" Academician Lu squinted at him, "You...you should refuel first."

Senior Brother Yan: "...?"

It was originally a serious topic, but the expression was so joyful that Lu Zhou couldn't hold back and almost laughed out loud.

...

The time soon reached nine o'clock, and the opening ceremony of the conference officially began.

Stepping up to the much-anticipated podium, Academician Wang Shicheng, chairman of the Chinese Mathematical Society, delivered an opening speech.

Immediately afterwards, the chairman of the International Mathematical Union Mori Shigefumi, the secretary-general Helge Horton, the Chinese mathematician Qiu Chengtong and other international mathematicians came to the stage respectively, and presented "birthday" congratulatory speeches for the 80th anniversary of the Huaguo Mathematical Society.

From the Anti-Japanese War to the founding of the nation, from the precariousness to the rise of great powers, these scholars engaged in basic scientific research have lived in air-raid shelters and cowsheds in the past 80 years.

Academician Wen Lan, the retiring chairman of the ninth council, concluded the conference with a sentence of "Don't forget the original intention, and you will always be there". Amid applause, he announced the opening of the conference.

At the end of the opening ceremony was the highlight of the conference, the presentation of the Hua Luogeng Mathematics Award and the Chen Shiingshen Mathematics Award!

The former is aimed at old professors over 50 years old, while the latter is mainly aimed at young scholars under 50 years old. Two people are selected for each session.

Although the bonus of 100,000 yuan is not much, it is a token of affection, but it is of great significance.

In particular, the Chern Mathematics Award is even regarded as the Fields Medal in China.

The winners of the Hua Luogeng Award are Academician Lin of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and Academician Liu of Sichuan University. They are respectively awarded for their outstanding contributions in computational mathematics, topology and fuzzy mathematics processing. It can be said that there is no suspense.

Soon, the most exciting moment came.

Amid the applause, Qiu Chengtong on the podium smiled and shook hands with Academician Wang Shicheng, and took the microphone from his hand.

The Chern Prize in Mathematics for young scholars will be presented by this old gentleman.

The applause gradually died down.

The old man cleared his throat and spoke slowly.

"The first winner is Professor Yang Zhiguang from the Institute of Mathematics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. His main scientific research achievements are the systematic research on the perfect matching layer method (PML) for the wave scattering problem, and the wave source transfer region splitting algorithm for the high-frequency Helmholtz equation , and established the mathematical basis for the well-known Peaceman well model in engineering..."

"As for the second winner..."

Turning to the next page of the speech, Mr. Qiu pushed his glasses and said with a smile.

"Lu Zhou!"