From small town scholar to chief scientist

Chapter 203 Done
After strolling around the campus of HKUST for a while, President Bao and others brought Zhou Yi to their residence, which was also a separate apartment with complete appliances and everything they needed.

And judging from its cleanliness, it should be cleaned every few days.

In fact, for ordinary scholars or visiting top scholars, all colleges and universities have booked hotels.

It is very difficult to provide an apartment, but Zhou Yi is an exception.

"Professor Zhou, this is an apartment specially prepared for you. I wanted to book a star hotel for you, but I didn't think it was suitable, so we allocated this apartment."

Principal Bao said.

Zhou Yi said:

"Actually, it's okay to live in a hotel, but it's difficult for you to live in an apartment."

Academician Ma said:
"It's not difficult. We have to use the highest courtesy to welcome Professor Zhou. In addition to the speech, we have another matter that we want to discuss with Professor Zhou."

Zhou Yi wondered:
"whats the matter?"

Principal Bao said:
"Our University of Science and Technology is going to hire Professor Zhou as our honorary professor. I don't know if Professor Zhou is willing to give it a title. It doesn't need scientific research results, and it doesn't need to lead graduate students in class. It's just a title."

Zhou Yi was stunned for a moment, and the title was given, which university did the same, Zhou Yi forgot for a while.

Academician Ma on the side thought Zhou Yi was unwilling, so he said quickly:
"We pay Professor Zhou an annual salary of 200 million yuan, which is exactly the same as that of Dongdae."

Only then did Zhou Yi remember, it turned out to be Dongda.

"Okay, no problem, if you don't want to be a tenured professor."

Zhou Yi said.

Do nothing every year, take 200 million wealth, just hang a title, why not do it.

If you hang for a lifetime, can you still get a lifetime salary?
It's hard to make money!
When the leaders of the University of Science and Technology heard Sheng Sheng, their eyes lit up, and they immediately said:

"Then it's settled."

Several people seemed to have prepared the contract a long time ago. Under Zhou Yi's gaze, they took out a contract from the folder and handed Zhou Yi a pen.

Zhou Yi thought for a while and said:
"If there is any major accident in your school later that affects my reputation, I have the conditions to terminate the contract immediately."

Principal Bao said directly:
"No problem. Renew the contract, Professor Zhou doesn't mind using the printer in the house, right?"

Zhou Yi said:

"do not mind."

Not long after, with the help of his assistant, a contract exuding a fragrance of ink and fragrance was handed over to Zhou Yi.

Zhou Yi glanced at it and found that there was nothing wrong with it, then signed it in a hurry, and stamped it with a big red handprint.

"Haha, Professor Zhou, HKUST is also your home. I will temporarily lend this apartment to Professor Zhou. Professor Zhou has the right to live permanently and use it."

Principal Bao held the contract and said,
"Before the speech tomorrow, do you want to hold a ceremony?"

Zhou Yi wanted to refuse, but seeing their expectant eyes, and taking 200 million for nothing every year, he said:
"it is good."

You still have to do things with the money. The annual salary of scientific researchers is not high. Some top university professors are even less than 30 a year.
It's not as good as an advertisement for Internet celebrities.

No matter how small the mosquito legs are, they are still meat. How could Zhou Yi dislike them? Moreover, the more titles he has, the stronger he is. If universities all over the world ask him to be an honorary professor, it can only show that he is very good.

An honorary professor who has taught more than 100 famous schools.

After chatting for a while, everyone left.

Zhou Yi also took out his mobile phone and started making calls.

"Hello, Chief Wang?"

A loud voice rang at the end of the phone, saying:
"Professor Zhou? Why did you think of calling me today?"

Zhou Yi said:

"It's a long story. It's like this. Aerospace J asked me to make a system. I've been a little confused recently. I want to refer to the core principles of Academician Pan's Mozi.

Don't you want to apply to you guys? "

Chief Wang said:
"This matter, I will ask the higher-ups to see if it is possible. If it is possible, I will call you, and if it is not, I will reply to you. I will try my best to apply with you."

Zhou Yi said:

"it is good."

Not long after, Zhou Yi finished calling the first head of the mobile phone directory, and then called the second head.
As for their official positions, Zhou Yi doesn't know who is higher and who is lower, but it's always good to fight more.

After some operations, Zhou Yi also called the head of Aerospace J,

After some conversation, he also said that he would do his best to deal with this matter for Zhou Yi.

"Professor Zhou, can we ask how sure you are?"

The voice on the other end of Zhou Yi's phone asked with a hint of expectation.

Zhou Yi is also very embarrassed, because it is not necessary to refer to the principle of Mozi to create a new system, and now it is just to accumulate some experience and expand some knowledge.

It is not certain whether it can be made or not. Maybe the things accumulated this time may not be used in this life.

But the person on the opposite side is the leader of Aerospace J, Zhou Yi said:
"Mr. Zhou, I will guarantee you that at least I will make a system that is very convenient for contact in the solar system. As for going further, it will be very difficult."

Chief Zhou at the other end of the phone said:
"That's good, that's good. That's enough. We're planning to develop it later. The most important thing now is the opportunity to land on Mars and colonize Mars earlier."

Zhou Yi: . .

It is basically impossible to colonize Mars without developing controllable nuclear fusion.

That will take a long time.

It's just that with good information technology, we can understand the whole picture of Mars and the geology of Mars earlier than other countries, and make all-round preparations for manned spacecraft landing on Mars.

After hanging up the phone, Zhou Yi took out his notebook and was in a daze for a while.

After everything went on the right track, Zhou Yi felt that there seemed to be nothing to do, and the bridge between quantum entanglement and mathematical theory could not be built.

It's not easy for Zhou Yi to ask for the data of the LHC. It seems that he can only study mathematics.

Zhou Yi clicked on some literature on Polignac's conjecture, and thought about how to construct a function connected with Zhou's analytical method, so as to first solve the form of K=1.

When Zhou Yi was fascinated, a phone call woke Zhou Yi up.

Zhou Yi picked up the phone, and it turned out that it was Teacher Qiu calling.

"Hello. Zhou Yi?"

On the other end of the phone, a middle-of-the-road voice rang.

Zhou Yi said:

"It's me, I'm Zhou Yi."

"Do you know the Science Breakthrough Prize I told you about last time?"

Qiu Chengtong said.

Zhou Yi said:

"Ok!"

"Congratulations! You have won two awards in one year, the New Vision Award in Mathematics and the Breakthrough Award in Mathematics!"

Qiu Chengtong said.

Zhou Yi said:

"Huh? Win two in a row? What about Professor Zhang?"

Qiu Chengtong said:
"That's right, if you win two in a row, Zhang Yitang probably has to wait until the next year. Compared to him, your contribution is more important."

Zhou Yi said:

"Oh, when and where?"

Qiu Chengtong said:
"This time I won it for you. The venue is Shuimu University this time, and all the subjects involved will be awarded at Shuimu University."

Zhou Yi said:

"What about the time?"

Qiu Chengtong said:
"About September 9th. How long will you be staying at HKUST?"

Zhou Yi said:

"It shouldn't take long, maybe a day or two at the earliest, or a week at the slowest."

Qiu Chengtong said:
"Okay, it should be in time."

Zhou Yi said:

"Ah."

Qiu Chengtong said again:

"This year, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences may award the Craford Award. I was thinking that there should be your nomination. I have already written a nomination letter for you, and Deligne and Milno will also write for you.

There is no news so far. I feel that the judges may still be selecting, and you should have a certain chance. "

Zhou Yi did not expect that he would still have a chance for the Crawford Award, and said:
"Thank you, teacher."

"No thanks, I personally feel that the chance is great, and I should call you later."

Qiu Chengtong said,
"There hasn't been any news yet, but the cover is really tight."

Not long after, after chatting for a while, Qiu Chengtong hung up the phone.

Zhou Yi was also surprised at this time, that he had the chance to win the Crawford Award.

Although the Mathematical Breakthrough Prize and the Mathematical New Horizons Prize among the Science Breakthrough Prizes are also high in gold content, compared with the Craford Prize,
That's too bad.

The Crawford Prize, known as the Nobel Prize in Mathematics.

A worldwide scientific award that is almost as famous as the Nobel Prize.

In the world of mathematics, there are only two people who have won the Fields Medal, the Wolf Medal and the Craford Medal, one is Deligne and the other is Qiu Chengtong.
Zhou Yi felt that maybe he had to achieve this achievement.

All the awards in the mathematics world, as long as they are available, I will not miss them.

As we all know, the Nobel Prize is the most influential award in the world today, especially in the field of natural sciences, it is recognized as the highest honor for researchers.

However, the fields of natural science included in the Nobel Prize are extremely limited, only physics, chemistry, physiology and medicine (the economics prize awarded since 1969 can also be considered part of this category),

Mathematics, which is very important to natural science, is not included in this list, and of course, such subjects as earth sciences and astronomy, which have made a series of major breakthroughs in the 20th century, are not included.

Therefore, in order to make up for this defect, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, in 1980, another rich man in Sweden, Holger Crafoord, decided to set up a Crafoord Award, and its scope of awards is precisely the scientific fields not covered by the Nobel Prize.

So far, the Crafoord Award is also a world science award, established by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in 1980, with funds from Holger Crafoord and his wife Anna-Greta ) donations.

The awarding disciplines include mathematics, earth sciences, astronomy and biological sciences, and are awarded once a year to reward outstanding achievements in one of the disciplines.

Zhou Yi felt that if he could win this award, the Crawford Award would be the most valuable among all his awards!

The Veblen Prize in Geometry, the Cole Prize in Number Theory, the ICCM Gold Medal, the Sloan Research Prize, the Ramanujan Prize, and the upcoming Breakthrough Prize in Mathematics and the New Vision Prize in Mathematics are all inferior to the Craford Prize.

But it also depends on luck, and the big guys in the other disciplines are not bad. Zhou Yi thinks he can understand if he didn't get it, after all, he is too young.

After Zhou Yi thought wildly, he continued to look at the twin prime number conjecture.

Early the next morning, after Zhou Yi finished washing, he followed a certain staff member to the cafeteria for breakfast, and then began a series of procedures.

The ceremony held was also very grand, obviously the highest standard, as high as those of Philippine Prize winners and Nobel Prize winners.

After a series of procedures, the time came to ten o'clock.

Zhou Yi, President Bao, Academician Ma and others rushed to the School of Mathematical Sciences of HKUST.

Started to speak for all the teachers and students of HKUST School of Mathematics.

Fortunately, Zhou Yi learned about the chicken soup speech at night, so he spoke very passionately, which made many students yearn for mathematics.

After the lecture, Zhou Yi had lunch with the leaders of HKUST in the cafeteria.

"Professor Zhou is really both civil and military, and his speech can be so contagious."

Principal Bao said.

Zhou Yi was embarrassed, these were all found by Peony on the Internet, and then changed according to the thinking of college students, it was all the credit of Peony, and had nothing to do with him.

Just when Zhou Yi was about to say thank you, Zhou Yi's cell phone rang.

Zhou Yi said:

"Answer the phone."

"It's okay, Professor Zhou is busy first."

Principal Bao said with a smile.

Seeing that it was his apprentice Zheng Keyu calling, Zhou Yi knew that there must be a breakthrough or something was stuck.

"Hi, I'm Zhou Yi."

Zhou Yi said immediately.

"Teacher Zhou, it was very successful. We did it for a day and a night. There were basically no obstacles. It was very successful. Now we are waiting to sign the contract and negotiate a share. We have done it!"

Zheng Keyu's voice was very loud, and even though Zhou Yi hadn't turned on the speakerphone, the people next to him could hear it all over the place.

Zhou Yi said:

"It's fine if it succeeds. I'll come over after dinner. I'm having dinner with Principal Bao and the others."

Zheng Keyu said excitedly:

"Okay, Teacher Zhou. We are all waiting for you."

After hanging up the phone, Zhou Yi said to Principal Bao and the others:
"Our system has been so successful that after dinner, I'm going to see for myself how intelligent it is."

Principal Bao said:
"Okay. Let's go there together. We also want to see what kind of amazing system Professor Zhou's team has made. It must be something extraordinary for Professor Zhou to work for so long."

Not long after, Zhou Yi and the others finished their meal and went straight to the laboratory.

Liu Qingfeng said:
"Professor Zhou, you are here, President Bao, Academician Ma, hello."

"Professor Zhou, President Bao, Academician Ma, hello."

The people in the team and the various assistants greeted each other.

The look of excitement on their faces was palpable.

Zhou Yi said:

"There is no problem with the new system experiment?"

Liu Qingfeng said:
"No problem, the new system cooperates with some chips produced by our country, and the smart refrigerator can automatically adjust according to the temperature of the ingredients in the refrigerator drawer, achieving the freshness preservation effect of "different temperatures in the same warehouse".

As for other remote control, there is nothing to say about using our exclusive APP.Do you want to experience it? "

Zhou Yi said:

"Come on, take us to experience it. Whether we can become the top in the industry and surpass the artificial intelligence level of foreign companies such as Apple, Google, Mata, etc., we will see the outcome."

Liu Qingfeng said:
"Haha, let's go, President Bao and Academician Ma think that all scientists, come and experience our new smart home together."

(End of this chapter)