Chapter 505 Heading to Los Angeles

Regarding Xiao Ai, Lu Zhou's attitude has always been very cautious.

Although he has studied its core code, he has not fully understood many of it until now.

After all, this is not a black technology developed by himself, but a gift from the system.

Whether there is a hidden danger here, even he is not sure.

However, Lu Zhou still plans to give it a try.

If Xiaoai can really come in handy, it will undoubtedly be a big help for him.

Although informatics is at the very bottom of the grade list.

However, he believes that as one of the three pillars of modern science, as his research continues to deepen into unknown areas and the scale of the research involved continues to expand, the value of informatics will gradually be reflected.

In the few days after the Faculty Games ended, Lu Zhou sorted out the experimental data collected from the last operation of the STAR device, and at the same time arranged the next step for the researchers of the project team, and then began to prepare for his trip to Los Angeles. Get ready.

In this international exchange conference on controllable nuclear fusion, besides Professor Li Changxia who was going to give a report at the conference, Manager Sun Chengwu and Chief Engineer Cao of Julius Baer Group were also present with him.

Needless to say, the purpose of Manager Sun's trip with Mr. Cao is to open up the international market.

Of course, in addition to these three, there are two doctoral students who will also go with Lu Zhou.

The day before his departure, when he was on his way to Jinling University to do business, Lu Zhou stopped by the Academy of Sciences and met two doctors brought by Professor Yu Jinsong.

"You are?"

"My name is Fei Jingti."

"My name is Dian Cili."

An amorphous, an electromagnetic force.

Hearing these two names, Lu Zhou couldn't help complaining: "Do you have a brother named Ning Jutai?"

Brother Fei and Brother Dian were stunned for a moment, looked at each other, and smiled awkwardly.

"...We don't have any seniors, but we do have one who is still in graduate school."

Lu Zhou: "What's his name?"

Fei Jingti said embarrassedly: "Liu Ti."

Lu Zhou: "..."

...

Regardless of whether Professor Yu has a quirk of collecting names or not, Lu Zhou and the two brothers Fei and Dian agreed on the departure time and meeting place.

This session of the International Controllable Nuclear Fusion Exchange Conference will be held on July 1st at the InterContinental Hotel in downtown Los Angeles. In order to have more time, they decided to set off two days in advance, that is, set off on June 29.

On the day of departure, the group first flew to Shanghai, then transferred from Shanghai, and boarded the flight to Los Angeles.

Once on the plane, Cao Gong closed his eyes without saying a word, and fell asleep.

"I hate flying," Fei Jingti shrunk his neck looking at the ground gradually moving away from the window, "This feeling of being far away from the ground always makes me feel very insecure."

Dian Cili, who was sitting next to him, joked: "Don't worry, from a statistical point of view, the probability of you falling from the sky is much lower than the probability of winning the first prize when you buy a lottery ticket."

Fei Jingti argued: "But from the perspective of quantum mechanics, you can't rule out any possibility until the plane is re-observed by the ground radar base station."

"Quantum mechanics is not how you use it, and you two should calm down for a while, and stop setting up FLAG blindly."

Lu Zhou, who couldn't listen anymore, couldn't help interrupting their discussion.

It is really not a friendly thing to talk about an air crash on a plane.

Just now, he has noticed that many passengers cast their dissatisfied eyes on the two.

Hearing what Lu Zhou said, the two chatterers immediately realized their mistake and shut up.

At this time, the foreign old man sitting next to Lu Zhou spoke in not-so-standard Mandarin.

"Are you going to attend an academic conference?"

Casting an unexpected glance at the old man, Lu Zhou asked curiously.

"How did you find out?"

"Because I often attend academic conferences myself, and I happen to know a little Mandarin, so I heard what you were talking about just now," the old man smiled, "I hope you don't mind, I'm just curious... are you studying physics? ?”

Lu Zhou smiled and said, "These people with me are studying physics, I am studying mathematics, and I only know a little about physics."

Li Changxia: "..."

Fei Jingti: "..."

Dian Cili: "..."

Yes, Professor Lu said that he knows a little bit.

So are they clueless?

Manager Sun, who had been silent all this time, rubbed his forehead and said with a smile, "Don't look at me, they are the ones who do research, and I'm just a layman. I still know a little physics in high school, and I'll give back the part above the undergraduate level to the teacher. "

The old man smiled and said, "It's nothing. I'm a researcher, and I'm also a layman. I've dabbled in condensed matter physics, but my research direction is mainly in materials science. How about you?"

Prof. Changxia Li: "Plasma Physics."

The old man nodded knowingly: "I've heard that it's a very profound direction."

Being able to meet someone from academia on the plane is a small probability event in itself.

Coupled with the fact that flying is rather boring, it is too early to start jet lag, so the few people started chatting.

According to the old man, a few days ago in Shanghai he attended an academic conference of the international material science community, and now he is preparing to return to the United States.

I always feel that this person looks familiar, Lu Zhou asked with a smile.

"May I ask your name?"

"Monchi G. Bawandi," Professor Bawandi said with a smile, "What about you?"

Hearing the name, Lu Zhou was slightly taken aback.

Bhawandi?

This is too coincidental, can this happen?

"...Lu Zhou"

Hearing Lu Zhou's name, Bawandi was obviously stunned, and then a surprised expression appeared on his face.

"Lu Zhou? Are you that Lu Zhou? This is really... what a coincidence."

Lu Zhou smiled and said, "It's really a coincidence, I didn't expect to meet you here."

Professor Li Changxia: "Do you know each other?"

Lu Zhou nodded and said, "That's right. Although it's just a work exchange, it's the first time I've seen a real person."

I still remember that a long time ago, probably when he was still an undergraduate student at King University, Professor Bawandi served as his reviewer.

Even now, Lu Zhou still remembers that the paper was about computing materials.

At that time, the entire computational materials science was still an emerging discipline that few people engaged in. Now after so many years, the status of this emerging discipline in the international materials science community is getting higher and higher, and it is no longer so difficult to find a reviewer. easy.

Along the way, Professor Bawandi and Lu Zhou talked a lot about materials science.

Especially about the field of carbon nanomaterials, which both of them are familiar with.

In the chat, Bawandi talked about the recent development of carbon nanomaterials research.

"... I don't know if you have paid attention to the IEEE International Electron Devices Conference. Just a few months ago, Professor Banerjee of the University of California, Santa Barbara reported their latest research results on all-carbon interconnection technology .”

Lu Zhou: "Full carbon interconnection technology?"

"That's right," Professor Bawandi smiled and continued, "Simply speaking, they made a complete chip, using carbon-based nanomaterials to replace copper in electronic chip interconnections. I heard that IBM's research on them Very interesting, this area is becoming popular recently, I bet after reading their paper, you will be interested too."

Using carbon nanomaterials to connect chips?

That sounds really interesting.

Reminiscent of the breakthrough in the SG-1 wire synthesis process, a look of interest appeared on Lu Zhou's face.

"It does sound interesting, and I'll keep an eye out if I have time."

In the following time, the two chatted a lot.

Because there is a colleague who can exchange academic issues, although this flight is boring, it doesn't make Lu Zhou feel so boring.

In this way, after more than ten hours of flying, the plane finally landed on the runway of Los Angeles Airport.

After getting off the plane, standing outside the gangway of the plane, Professor Bawandi shook hands with Lu Zhou and said a simple farewell.

"If you have a chance, you can come to MIT to visit me, so goodbye."

Shaking Professor Bawandi's hand, Lu Zhou said with a smile: "Bon voyage, if you have the opportunity to come to Jinling, you can also visit me at Jinda."

After parting ways, Lu Zhou called two taxis outside the airport, and the group went straight to the Intercontinental Hotel where the meeting was held.

When passing through the hotel lobby, Lu Zhou was about to walk towards the elevator.

At this time, a voice of conversation suddenly came from the side.

"Hello, are you Professor Lu?"