The top student must be diligent.

Chapter 158 Graduation
As soon as Director Liu left, the door of the lounge was knocked again, and then the academicians from the Institute of Mathematics and the Institute of Physics walked in.

Academician Xi Lan and Academician Pang Cheng walked in one after the other. Pang Cheng then quickened his pace and quickly walked in front of Xiao Yi, shook his hand, and said with a smile: "Xiao Yi, congratulations on your graduation. I just gave you a full score for your defense."

Xiao Yi smiled and nodded: "Thank you, Academician Pang."

Xi Lan, who was standing behind him, raised her eyebrows and immediately pushed Pang Cheng aside, saying unhappily, "I don't know why a physics researcher like you came here to join in the fun. This is clearly our math business."

"It's just a perfect score, but you said it as if none of us got a perfect score."

"Xiao Yi, congratulations on your graduation, but you have to go back to your school to get your degree certificate. Lao Hu, you must get it ready for Xiao Yi as soon as possible after you go back."

As he said this, he turned and urged Hu Guangde beside him.

"Why do I need you to remind me of this?" Hu Guangde waved his hand. "The school is already processing it. You don't have to worry about it. It's also in the process of processing the master's degree."

Xi Lan said, "Of course I have to worry about it, after all, this is related to Xiao Yi's future postgraduate studies."

At this time, Academician Pang from the Institute of Physics came over again and said with a smile: "That's indeed the case. I have to worry about it too."

"Get out of here!" Xi Lan immediately pushed Pang Cheng away again and said, "I really didn't realize you were so shameless. Xiao Yi is a genius in our mathematics field. How can he waste his time on your physics?"

"That's not what you said, Old Xi." Pang Cheng said, "Xiao Yi hasn't said anything yet, but you're already making plans for him. How dare you conclude that Xiao Yi has no interest in physics?"

"Do I need to say this?" Xi Lan stared, then he looked at Xiao Yi: "Student Xiao Yi, what do you think?"

Xiao Yi was helpless: "I..."

Just when he didn't know what to say, Academician Hu next to him spoke again.

"Come on, you two." Hu Guangde said, "I think it would be better to let Xiao Yi study for a doctorate at both of your institutes. It's normal to study for two degrees at the same time. What do you think?"

Hu Guangde's sudden proposal stunned the two people.

Of course, Xiao Yi was also stunned. He had never thought about studying mathematics and physics at the same time.

But it seems...

Is it totally feasible?

Xi Lan frowned, a little reluctant: "This is not good, it will delay Xiao Yi's time, right?"

However, Pang Cheng raised his hands to express his agreement: "It's totally fine on my side. Why would this waste time? Old Xi, it's not a good thing to eat alone."

Xi Lan did not respond, but turned to look at Xiao Yi and asked, "What do you think?"

Xiao Yi pondered for a while, and finally said: "I have no objection."

Pang Cheng immediately burst into laughter and patted Xi Lan on the shoulder, "Did you hear that? Xiao Yi has no objection, so don't say anything."

Then he said to Xiao Yi: "Xiao, you don't have to worry about not being used to physics. In fact, I came here today to talk to you about cooperation on a physics project. You can study this project and have a deeper understanding of our physics."

Xiao Yi frowned: "Physics topic? What topic?"

Pang Cheng smiled and said, "Of course it's condensed matter physics. After all, I study condensed matter myself."

"As for this topic, it involves high-temperature superconductors. I don't know if you are familiar with the material FeSe, iron selenide."

"FeSe itself is an iron-based superconductor with a superconducting transition temperature of about 8 K in bulk form. However, later scholars discovered that when FeSe is deposited in the form of a single layer on a specific substrate, its superconducting transition temperature can be significantly increased."

"Especially on the SrTiO3 substrate, the superconducting transition temperature even exceeds 100K, which is much higher than the superconducting transition temperature in the bulk phase, and even higher than YBCO."

"The current academic community believes that this is mainly related to the interface effect between the substrates. The electronic coupling and phonon mode at the interface may be the key factors leading to the significant increase in the superconducting temperature."

"So the purpose of our project is to study the main reasons for this process, in order to help study the mechanism of high-temperature superconductivity."

Pang Cheng paused, then smiled and said, "Speaking of which, your calculation of absolute electrons has also provided us with a lot of help. It is for this reason that I plan to invite you to join our project."

After listening to what Pang Cheng said about this topic, Xiao Yi began to think about it for a while.

This is a very interesting topic.

What is the mechanism of high temperature superconductivity?
The superconductivity mechanism is a very important topic in condensed matter physics. It can even be said that more than half of the people in condensed matter physics are studying the superconductivity mechanism.

Previously, the most important theory on superconductivity mechanism was the BCS theory. The famous Cooper pairs were also born from this theory. But the problem is that the BCS theory only successfully explained the superconductivity principles of some traditional superconducting materials, and only involved low-temperature superconductivity. For some new and high-temperature superconductors, the BCS theory is more limited.

Therefore, how to explain the superconducting mechanism of these new and high-temperature superconductors is the current research focus.

So, Xiao Yi nodded and said, "Okay, when will this topic start?"

"Haha, this has already started, but now it has entered a bottleneck stage." Pang Cheng said: "So now we are inviting you to help us see if we can break through this bottleneck."

Xiao Yi asked again: "When will I join the project?"

Pang Cheng: "Any time is fine. The research site of the topic is also in our institute. Um... you should go back to your school to deal with graduation matters, right?"

Xiao Yi nodded: "Yes, I don't know how long it will take, sister, take a look at our school."

Pang Cheng looked directly at Hu Guangde: "Old Hu."

Hu Guangde waved his hand: "Well, I know, it won't take too much time, it can be done within two weeks, are you satisfied?"

Pang Cheng nodded with satisfaction: "That's fine."

Then he saw Xiao Yi again, rubbed his hands and said, "Xiao Yi, what do you think now?"

Xiao Yi smiled and said, "Then I'll come directly after I finish the graduation procedures."

"Okay, I'm just waiting for your words!"

Pang Cheng clapped his hands and said.

"But, Lao Pang, you have to take good care of our Xiao Yi." Hu Guangde said again.

"You don't have to worry about that." Pang Cheng rolled his eyes and said, "What do you mean by 'our Xiao Yi'? From now on, Xiao Yi will be a member of our Institute of Physics. I should be the one to say 'our Xiao Yi'. How can I not take good care of him?"

Hu Guangde: "You are..."

Xi Lan, who had been silent nearby, said at this time: "Don't forget, Xiao Yi is also from our School of Mathematics. After you come here, Xiao Yi, you can rest here at night. We will prepare a dormitory for you."

"You're talking as if we don't have student dormitories here." Pang Cheng raised his eyebrows and said, "No... We directly arranged a dormitory for Xiao Yi as a researcher. Old Xi, you say you value Xiao Yi, but in the end you treat him poorly."

Xi Lan's face darkened, and she said, "I just said to prepare dormitories, but I didn't say that we were going to prepare student dormitories. Instead, your first sentence was about student dormitories, okay?"

Pang Cheng shrugged: "It doesn't matter. Anyway, Xiao Yi, you can just live in our researcher dormitory, not theirs."

Hu Guangde interrupted and said, "Although I am not in the Institute of Mathematics now, I remember that the researcher dormitories of the Institute of Mathematics and the Institute of Physics are together, right?"

These two research institutes are basically next to each other, so naturally the dormitories and other things are also together. Why are there so many differences?

Pang Cheng: "That's different. We arranged a senior researcher dormitory for Xiao Yi, but their Institute of Mathematics may not have that."

Xi Lan's face darkened. "Pang, keep talking nonsense!"

Afterwards, the two started arguing again, and Xiao Yi next to them didn't know what to say.

Can this be argued for?
It's just a dormitory.

If it doesn't work, just arrange a set for him.

Well... after all, he has never enjoyed the experience of owning two houses in Beijing.

……

Time passed quickly. Although the report to tens of thousands of people had ended, the discussion had not stopped at all. At the same time, someone had already translated the report and sent it abroad.

Naturally, many mathematicians in the foreign mathematics community discussed the contents of this report.

Many universities also invited Xiao Yi to give reports there, but Xiao Yi refused.

After all, he had already made a plan that in the future, he would only go abroad once a year. If he went abroad more often, he would not be able to bear it. Of course, the main reason is that the proof of the Goldbach conjecture has been generally recognized by the academic community, so there is no need to go out and explain it. If you have any questions, please send an email to exchange your questions. Thank you.
After the report, Xiao Yi did not stay in Shangjing for long. He went straight back to Fei City the next day to deal with graduation-related matters.

Although the defense was completed, he still had some exams to complete, so he had to finish all of them. After all, he still had to complete enough credits.

Of course, these exams were not too difficult for him.

In this way, about ten days later, he completed all the exams and obtained all the credits.

……

"Here's your bachelor's degree certificate, and here's your master's degree certificate."

In the dean's office of the School of Mathematics at HKUST, the dean personally handed two degree certificates to Xiao Yi.

The two certificates that Xiao Yi received were both quite large.

Bachelor of Science, Master of Science.

He smiled and nodded: "Thank you."

The dean smiled and said, "There's nothing to thank me for. You earned it all by yourself."

"I would like to thank you for allowing our college to achieve such brilliant achievements this year."

The dean smacked his lips with some regret: "I am a little reluctant to see you graduate directly like this."

Xiao Yi laughed.

"Okay, as for your diploma, you need to go to the Academic Affairs Office to get it. It should have been processed by now."

"Oh, and don't forget your graduation photos, um, they should be here soon too."

As soon as the dean finished speaking, there was a knock on the office door. Then, several teachers from the School of Mathematics that Xiao Yi knew came in, mainly his substitute teachers, and then Hu Guangde.

"Xiao Yi, congratulations on your graduation."

Professor Liu Bin came up, patted Xiao Yi on the shoulder, and said with a smile: "He is probably the fastest student in the world to complete his undergraduate and master's degree."

Recalling when Xiao Yi enrolled last year, they compared it to Schultz who completed his undergraduate degree in one and a half years, so they decided to let Xiao Yi complete his undergraduate degree in one year.

Who would have thought that I would have exceeded my goal and even obtained a master's degree.

"Do you want to contact the Guinness World Records and have them issue you a certificate?"

Hu Guangde next to him also joked.

Xiao Yi didn't know whether to laugh or cry: "That's not necessary..."

"Okay, let's all stand. Xiao Yi stands in the middle."

The dean next to him shouted at this time.

Afterwards, they stopped talking nonsense and quickly stood up in a row.

Xiao Yi stood in the middle, with Academician Hu and Professor Liu standing next to him.

The person who took the photo was the assistant called by the dean. He stood in the front and waited until everyone was ready, then he took the photo with a "click".

Then there is Xiao Yi’s solo graduation photo.

A person stands in front of the camera, and the picture freezes.

It means that this phase of his life has ended.

Perhaps the only regret is that he is the only one attending this graduation.

It was not like when he graduated from his sophomore year of high school, when all his classmates came over and took graduation photos with him.

However, speaking of this matter, today is June 6th.

The college entrance examination was over, but a few days before it, he went to the University of Science and Technology High School to take graduation photos.

I took a complete graduation photo with my high school classmates.

After all, there has to be a give and take.

I also hope that they can achieve excellent results in the college entrance examination.

……

6 month 15 day.

Shangjing, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Basic Science Park.

"Welcome, welcome! Warmly welcome!"

Xiao Yi, who was standing at the door, looked at the scene in front of him with a confused look on his face.

The director of the Institute of Physics, Academician Pang Cheng, was also standing at the door. He smiled and said to Xiao Yi, "They are all graduate students from our Institute of Physics. When they heard that you were coming, they all came over to greet you."

Xiao Yi said helplessly: "That's not the case..."

Right in front of him, a group of people lined up on both sides of the door, cheering him enthusiastically.

It just gives people a feeling of...

When the leaders of primary and secondary schools came to inspect, the school arranged for students to stand at the door to welcome them...

He was just an ordinary student and at most he had solved a few math problems.

Pang Cheng laughed, then waved at the graduate students and said, "Alright, alright, all of you should go away. I've already told you that Xiao Yi is very shy. You're scaring me."

After driving away the group of graduate students who were there to join in the fun, he turned to Xiao Yi and said, "Let's go. I'll take you to your dormitory first."

……

The conditions in the researcher dormitory are very good, they are single rooms and are relatively spacious.

Xiao Yi's house is 60 square meters, with one bedroom, one bathroom and one kitchen. It is fully equipped with a separate dry and wet area in the bathroom and a water heater.

There is also a south-facing balcony. Looking out, you can see a lush green belt. It is summer now, and the chirping of cicadas outside is intoxicating.

What made Xiao Yi most satisfied was the large solid wood desk. It would definitely be very comfortable to do research on it.

"How is it? Not bad, right?" Pang Cheng asked with a smile.

Xiao Yi naturally nodded and said, "Perfect."

"That's good!" Pang Cheng said with a smile: "As for other daily necessities, you have to buy them yourself. Of course, they can all be reimbursed."

"Okay." Xiao Yi nodded: "Then, where is the laboratory for our project? When can we go there?"

"Don't worry about this. Just take a good rest today." Pang Cheng said, "I will ask my students to come and see you tomorrow."

Then he looked at the time and said, "I'll leave first. Call me if you need anything."

"it is good."

After sending Pang Cheng away.

Xiao Yi turned around and looked at the house in front of him.

This is where I will live for a long time to come.

“Hopefully it’s off to a good start!”

(End of this chapter)