Chapter 586 Thank You for Saving Me

Except for one doctor and two masters, the other four went back first.

To be honest, the quality of the recruited students this time is very average, at least in Lu Zhou's opinion.

But this can't be blamed on others. After all, he was busy with the controllable fusion project last year and didn't have time to take care of the school. He didn't update his information on the admissions website until the end of the year.

As usual, high-quality students are basically divided away every summer.

Among the students in the master's group, except for Han Mengqi, who is engaged in computing materials, and another mathematician named Feng Jin, most of them have no scientific research experience.

For example, Liu Siyuan standing here is another master's degree in computing materials. Although the four-year undergraduate grade point is quite good, and the undergraduate degree is also very valuable, but the scientific research experience is almost zero.

But even so, it doesn’t matter. After all, in addition to experimental courses and curriculum design, most undergraduates have no chance to participate in scientific research if they don’t have a special relationship with teachers or are lucky enough to catch up with the school’s talent training plan. project.

"You used to belong to Cathay?"

Wu Shuimu: "Yes."

Lu Zhou: "Who is your mentor?"

Wu Shuimu: "Professor Liu Xianglong, I studied functional analysis with him."

Lu Zhou thought for a while, but had no impression of the name at all, so he changed the subject and continued to ask.

"Then have you been exposed to material science before?"

Wu Shuimu scratched the back of his head embarrassingly, "I have a little contact with it. The professors in our School of Chemistry did a project on the mechanical dispersion of single-walled carbon nanotubes in media. I helped them do modeling and analysis on the collected data. .”

Raising his eyebrows with interest, Lu Zhou smiled and asked, "Is this the reason why you chose Computational Materials Science?"

"That's right," Wu Shuimu said with a smile, "I feel like I've reached my ceiling in functional analysis. No matter how much I research, it's hard to make innovations in the original theory. My teacher suggested that I From pure theory to application. Just at that time, I saw your acceptance speech when you won the Craford Award. The sentence that mathematics changes science deeply touched me. Since then, I have made up my mind to do computing materials. Row!"

By the end, there was almost a sense of mission in his voice.

Liu Siyuan looked at this senior with admiration, and said in his heart, "Oh, this licking skill is simply invincible."

Han Mengqi's eyebrows twitched, and she couldn't bear to look directly away.

Hearing this sentence, Lu Zhou smiled embarrassedly.

Is this flattering?

Never mind, anyway, he sounds quite comfortable.

Clearing his throat, Lu Zhou said.

"Now that you have your own goals, then work hard towards your goals. In addition, from what you said, you should have a little foundation in calculating materials, so I will assign you some relatively exhaustive tasks gone."

After all, he looked at Lin Yuxiang whose desk was closest to here.

"Get that marker for me."

"I am searching……"

Lin Yuxiang rummaged through the drawer, quickly found a black marker pen, and handed it over with a smile.

"Give~"

"thanks."

Saying thank you habitually, Lu Zhou took the marker pen from her hand, walked to the whiteboard next to the office, stared at an empty whiteboard for a while, and then picked up the pen to write on it.

【Ψ(r1, r2, ...，rn)=∏Ψt(rt)】

[{pi/2m+V(ri)+1/4πε0∑∫drf|Ψj(rj)|e/|ri-rj|}Ψi(ri)=EiΨi(ri)】

【…】

Looking at the line-by-line calculations on the whiteboard, Wu Shuimu's expression was slightly moved: "This is..."

"Theoretical model of electrochemical structure interface," Lu Zhou finally wrote down the last line of calculation and stopped the marker pen in his hand. Lu Zhou smiled and said, "You should have understood it."

Wu Shuimu coughed dryly and said, "Professor, you are joking... Now who is doing computational chemistry, who doesn't know your theoretical model of electrochemical structure interface."

A first-principle calculation and a theoretical model of the electrochemical structure interface, these two plates have almost become two mountains of computational materials science.

When he was studying at Aurora, his tutor, Professor Liu Xianglong, highly praised this theoretical model, saying that it brought the method of functional analysis to the extreme in the field of application.

Although at his current level, he still can't understand what is the "extreme" that made his mentor overwhelmed, but when he watched Lu Zhou write out these steps on the blackboard, he was still quite shocked.

He asked himself, even if it was a thesis written by himself, it was impossible to say that it was written verbatim, and at most it was just a final conclusion.

He believed that it was impossible for Lu Zhou to remember the papers he had written verbatim.

Thinking about it this way, it is very likely that he deduced these things on the spot...

Watching the communication between the senior brother and the professor in a daze, the two master students couldn't get in a word.

Even Han Mengqi, who has been a part-time intern at the Institute of Computational Materials for two or three years, did not understand what they were discussing. Although he has participated in several scientific research projects, the people in the institute obviously will not throw too much work to an undergraduate student.

Such profound things as "Theoretical Model of Electrochemical Structural Interface" are still too advanced for her who is just getting started.

Lu Zhou: "In fact, this model is not absolutely perfect, or there is still room for improvement and further extension to other fields. For example, with the multi-body wave function as the basic variable, we can evolve new and different levels of configuration correlation , many-body perturbation theory and coupled cluster method, the accuracy of its computational prediction can also be systematically improved.”

"What I need you to do now is to make a further generalization of this theoretical model of the electrochemical structural interface. Although this work is probably similar to decorating a window on a completed building, it is equally important .After all, with your current ability, it is not enough to add another floor to this building."

Wu Shuimu nodded seriously: "I see, I will do as you said."

Lu Zhou nodded with satisfaction.

Not bad, a child can be taught.

"Come on, if you really go deep into this field, maybe you can write two JACS papers before you graduate with a Ph.D."

Two top publications in one!

This is enough for Qingqian's threshold!

Hearing this sentence, Wu Shuimu was delighted and said, "Yes! I will work hard!"

Lu Zhou nodded with a smile, and continued to look at the two masters.

"About your task, it is to understand what I wrote on this whiteboard first."

"When you understand these basic things, I will arrange specific scientific research tasks for you. If you encounter something you don't understand during the study process, you can ask your brother Dr. Wu Shuimu, if he can't explain clearly Yes, you can ask me again."

Where is the basis of this thing...

Although both Liu Siyuan and Han Mengqi wanted to complain like this, they still bit the bullet and nodded.

Especially Liu Siyuan.

At the undergraduate level, he can only be regarded as an ordinary academic. Although his grades are already very good, there are no extra points in the academic field.

Although he had already made some psychological preparations before this, he still didn't expect that he would feel the difficulty from the very beginning.

Sure enough, it is not an easy task to study in graduate school under the hands of the Nobel laureates.

If you don't have talent far beyond ordinary people, if you want to keep up with his rhythm, you can only rely on your liver...

...

After explaining their respective tasks, Lu Zhou dropped the marker pen in his hand and announced the dissolution so that they could go back first.

Before leaving, Han Mengqi deliberately slowed down and stayed at the end.

After the others left, she glanced at the door, then at Lu Zhou, and whispered.

"...Master."

Seeing the nervous look on the little girl's face, Lu Zhou couldn't help laughing, and said with a smile, "What's wrong?"

The overlapping index finger and thumb were entangled with each other, and Han Mengqi lowered her head and whispered, "That... I did it."

Originally, she had a lot to say, but she didn't know why, and at this moment, she didn't know how to speak.

Lu Zhou: "Well, congratulations!"

Staring at the gap between the tiles on the floor, Han Mengqi slightly pursed her lips with some displeasure.

"Have you nothing else to say?"

Lu Zhou thought for a while and said, "To be honest, I'm quite surprised."

Han Mengqi: "...Surprised?"

Lu Zhou smiled and said, "Well, do you still remember what I told you at the beginning? If you can be admitted to Jinda University, I will agree to you as my apprentice... I didn't expect you to really do it."

Hearing that Lu Zhou underestimated her, Han Mengqi said with some displeasure: "What, I'm a student you taught me, can't I even do this little thing?"

"Don't be like this, it's still a bit difficult to get into Jinda University," Lu Zhou coughed lightly, and continued, "Of course, what really surprised me was not that you were admitted to Jinda University four years ago, but today, four years later. You are still standing here."

Han Mengqi looked at him in confusion, not understanding what he was talking about.

After a pause, Lu Zhou continued.

"I have always believed that time can change a person. Or, not just a person, it can change anything including the most fundamental particles that make up the universe."

"All the problems that cannot be solved temporarily can theoretically be solved by time... and you, let me see another possibility."

Han Mengqi tilted her head: "Another possibility?"

Lu Zhou nodded: "Well, even time, there are things it can't change. Just like you told me at the time, you like mathematics the most. In fact, I didn't take it to heart at the time, I just took it as a small sentence. It’s a child’s joke. However, it’s been four years, I didn’t expect you to persevere as always, and get admitted to my master’s degree with your own efforts... To be honest, I’m surprised.”

When he said this, Lu Zhou's mood was actually full of complexity.

If there is something that cannot be changed even by time...

So from the very beginning, the idea of ​​choosing to leave that matter to time to solve is itself wrong.

"Actually, it's not just mathematics..." Han Mengqi didn't realize Lu Zhou's mood, she scratched her cheek in embarrassment, stared straight at the tip of her shoe, and rubbed the edge of the tile gap lightly. "Chemistry and so on, I'm also very interested."

When he came back to his senses, Lu Zhou concealed his unnatural expression with a smile.

"Well, studying science is a lot of fun, and I hope you continue to enjoy it."

"I will definitely!" Looking up at Lu Zhou, Han Mengqi nodded firmly, but after a while, she lifted her gaze to the floor again, "Well, there is one thing that I have always wanted to tell you..."

Lu Zhou: "What's the matter?"

Han Mengqi: "In August last year, my mother and father divorced..."

Seeing the concerned expression on Lu Zhou's face, Han Mengqi's mouth curled up.

Although she didn't really want to talk about this sad topic, she continued.

"If it was in the past, I would probably cry very sadly, and I would definitely not be able to get out of that room, and I would definitely miss many, many interesting things..."

As she spoke, a cheerful smile appeared on her face.

"Although it may be four years late...but I still..."

"...I still want to say thank you!"

Thank you for saving me...

After silently saying this in her heart, Han Mengqi turned and ran out the door.

Looking at the back figure that slipped away from the office, Lu Zhou froze for a moment, then shook his head with a smile, the originally slightly bored mood was also diluted a lot.

I never thought that helping others is such a joyful thing.

To be honest, when he was working on that part-time job, he didn't think about it at all...