Research starts with PhD students

Chapter 20 The project is finished? How is this possible!
There was indeed communication between Soochow University and the Institute of High Energy Physics.

Less than two hours after Soochow University issued the project announcement, the Institute of High Energy Physics also issued a similar announcement. They are the sponsor of the project. The announcement was relatively low-key, only mentioning the title of the project and designated collaborators.

Even so, it was still noticed by many people.

There are many high-energy physics projects that cooperate with universities, enterprises and research institutions. Simply issuing a funding announcement for a project will not attract attention. The problem is that the designated collaborators of the project are "Zhang Shuo, a doctoral student at Soochow University, and Professor Luo Yongjun."

In a formal project announcement, the order of partners is very important. Those at the front are often important people, and those at the back are less important.

If Luo Yongjun was listed first, not many people would notice him.

Now Zhang Shuo's name comes first.

As a doctoral student, it is already amazing to be listed on the announcement list of a major project, not to mention being ranked at the top.

Many people can draw conclusions by reading the announcement:

Either the list in the announcement was wrong, or the designated collaborator was the doctoral student, and the professor behind him was incidental and unimportant.

Many people at Soochow University have also paid attention to it.

Suzhou University of Technology is a very large university, and not everyone knows about the million-dollar project that Zhang Shuo got.

In the School of Mathematical Sciences, projects are not a secret, but it is different in other schools.

For example, the School of Information and Engineering.

After reading the announcement, several professors in computer software research immediately inquired about the news and then came directly to Luo Yongjun.

The project is a study in the field of mathematics and computer science, but in essence, it is about designing program algorithms to analyze experimental data.

This is very attractive for professors majoring in computer software.

Firstly, the cooperation with the Institute of High Energy Physics is well-known and involves data analysis of particle collision experiments, which sounds very high-end and naturally has strong appeal.

Second, the funding is also attractive.

Professors majoring in computer science have more funding, but this is only relatively speaking. Most faculty and staff in the school are working on projects supported by national research funds, and few of them can get projects in cooperation with outside companies.

Now there is a project in cooperation with a scientific research institution, which is more in the direction of computer algorithms. If you join the project, you will definitely get a lot of funds.

At the door of the computer room, Luo Yongjun rejected the visitor without hesitation, "Don't even think about joining the project, it's impossible!"

"We are almost done with this project, and we don't need anyone else to join us."

He said it very seriously.

The professors who came to me didn't believe it at all. "You just launched the project. Isn't the funding period one year? How can it be completed so soon?"

"You don't need to find such an excuse to refuse!"

"Do not make jokes!"

Luo Yongjun didn't care what they thought. After he finished speaking, he locked them outside the door on the grounds that he was busy with work.

They are indeed busy.

The review of program sub-packaging has been completed, and they are sorting it out bit by bit along the framework to combine the algorithm package and program package together.

Once the sorting work is completed, the overall debugging can be carried out.

Later, Zhang Shuo will improve the input and output codes, while Luo Yongjun will be responsible for writing the project report. The two will work together to complete the research as quickly as possible.

……

at the same time.

On the communication software, there is a very active group called 'Comprehensive Three-Layer Easy Chat Group'.

This group includes faculty and staff on the third floor of the comprehensive building of the School of Science of Donggang University.

Xue Hongtao is one of them.

He participated in the data analysis of the last particle collision experiment. Because one of his doctoral students was giving a report on stage, he had been paying attention to the experimental meeting information of the Institute of High Energy Physics, wanting to see if the papers were included.

As a result, I didn’t wait for the paper to be included, but I received a project cooperation announcement from the Institute of High Energy Physics.

At first Xue Hongtao didn't care at all. He just took a quick glance and was about to close the webpage when he noticed a familiar name.

"Zhang Shuo?"

"The doctoral student whose master's thesis and diploma were revoked, and who then gave a report at the Institute of High Energy Physics experimental conference?"

Xue Hongtao took another closer look and forwarded the announcement to the group he usually chatted with, "Take a look at this announcement!"

"Remember what I said last time?"

"The student whose master's degree was revoked by the school gave an amazing report at the laboratory conference. Now he is even more amazing. He got a project from the Institute of High Energy Physics!"

"The funding is one million! The Institute of High Energy Physics even issued a special announcement to designate cooperation!"

"I knew last time that this guy was amazing..."

Others immediately joined in, chattering, "It's true!"

"A million-dollar project, a designated collaboration, and a PhD student, it feels a bit like reading a book in a foreign language..."

"The project is to analyze experimental simulation deviations? To analyze the experimental data as a whole? It's too difficult to research a completely new analysis method!"

"Incredible, really incredible!"

"How could a master's thesis of this level be plagiarized? The school must have made a mistake..."

Donggang University, Center for Mathematical Sciences Research.

Second floor, director's office.

There was an old professor in his sixties wearing square-framed glasses, staring at the computer screen with serious eyes. He was Jiang Weizhi, an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, dean of the School of Science at Donggang University, and director of the Center for Mathematical Sciences at Donggang University.

Opposite Jiang Weizi was a middle-aged man in his early forties.

The middle-aged man had short hair and wore a pair of round-frame glasses. His angular cheeks made him look capable and steady.

He is Zhang Shuo’s graduate supervisor Zhou Kaijun.

Jiang Weizhi finished reading the information on the computer, raised his head and frowned at Zhou Kaijun, "Kaijun, is the level of the master's student you are teaching so high?"

"The Institute of High Energy Physics has designated us to collaborate with him to develop an experimental analysis algorithm."

“This difficulty…”

No further words were spoken.

He is an academician in the field of applied mathematics, and Zhou Kaijun is a mathematics professor at the level of Young Elite Scientists.

By telling them what the research is about, they can roughly estimate the difficulty.

Zhou Kaijun immediately shook his head and sneered, "I know Zhang Shuo. At most, his grades are better. If he can complete a major research project, he can also get funding from the Institute of High Energy Physics..."

"Totally impossible!"

"I think it's either related to his current advisor, or the Institute of High Energy Physics has been fooled."

Jiang Weizi thought about it and was still a little worried.

He looked at Zhou Kaijun scrutinizingly and asked seriously, "That student's thesis, does it really have nothing to do with you?" Zhou Kaijun smiled bitterly, "Teacher, don't you know me yet? If I knew there was a problem, I would never have let his thesis pass!"

"Besides, the PhD student who published the paper was supervised by Zhang Ping, whom I don't even know!"

"I was just unlucky enough to be implicated."

He said, shaking his head in frustration.

Jiang Weizhi thought about it for a moment, then nodded thoughtfully, "That's right. It's no big deal if you're not allowed to teach students. Just focus on your project."

"Once you finish this project, your qualifications will be enough to participate in major national projects. In a few years, you will have the qualifications to be evaluated as an academician."

"Kaijun, I have high hopes for you, please don't let me down in other matters..."

"Teacher, don't worry!"

Zhou Kaijun patted his chest and made a promise.

As he walked out of the office, he couldn't help but let out a sigh of relief, feeling very depressed.

He just made the same mistake that all men make.

Donggang University requires doctoral students to complete an SCI paper. Huang Hui didn't know what to write, so when he was giving guidance, he gave an example of a small content of one of his graduate students.

Who would have thought that Huang Hui could publish it after just a few revisions?
I originally thought it was nothing, but who would have thought that the one picked for the random inspection of master's thesis would be Zhang Shuo?

Otherwise, there will be no problem.

What is happening now is even more unbelievable. The Institute of High Energy Physics actually assigned a million-dollar project to Zhang Shuo, a doctoral student?

"How can this be!"

Zhou Kaijun felt like the whole world was against him, but no matter what, things had already happened and there must have been a lot of discussion in the school.

He frowned and thought about how to deal with it. "The school punished me because I didn't review graduate students' theses strictly enough."

"Actually, I wasn't wrong."

"The school has also banned plagiarism in graduation theses."

"If it can be proven that Huang Hui is much better than Zhang Shuo, there is no need to plagiarize other people's essays... everything is self-evident!"

Zhou Kaijun thought about it, gritted his teeth and made a decision.

……

A week later.

The project has entered its final stage.

Zhang Shuo has completed all the codes. He has run each part many times and modified the problems encountered one by one. He also used the applied server to input simulated data for a trial run, which lasted for two hours and everything went smoothly.

"That's about it, here we are."

"If we want to do further debugging, we need a more advanced computer." Zhang Shuo exhaled lightly and asked Luo Yongjun, "How is the report going?"

"That's almost it!"

Luo Yongjun said, "I modified the format this morning and I think there are no problems. It's just a report, so there shouldn't be too many requirements."

He looked a little tired.

In recent times, Luo Yongjun has been working very hard, not only debugging programs and writing reports, but also constantly studying the functions of algorithm packages and program packages in order to clarify the internal logic of the deviation assessment system.

This is the most difficult part of the algorithm logic to understand.

It's not because he is interested in it, but purely because of the subsequent project acceptance, report writing, and even experimental data analysis, which may involve underlying principle issues.

As an important participant in the project, someone would definitely ask him the principle.

It would be such a shame if he didn't know!
Now that Luo Yongjun understood everything inside and out, he felt that his logical level had been elevated, as if he had become a master of algorithmic logic.

Zhang Shuo nodded and said, "The program has been debugged and the report is almost done. Can we submit it for acceptance?"

"It should be fine."

"What process?"

"First submit it on the school project background, and then the school will communicate with the Institute of High Energy Physics to see what their acceptance process is."

Luo Yongjun explained, "Institutional funding projects are different from national foundation projects. As long as the sponsor approves, it's fine. The specific acceptance method needs to be discussed."

"I guess I will take the code over and then go over to give a report to explain it."

"They will use a program to analyze the experimental data and make sure everything is OK. The specific analysis results have nothing to do with us."

"That really does matter..."

Zhang Shuo muttered softly that the purpose of his research was to know the analysis results.

If we can see phenomena unique to a single experiment, it will prove the consistency of the microscopic physical rules of the two worlds, and we can continue our research in the direction of the source point theory.

This is the most important.

……

The two of them modified the project status together.

In the display of the project management system, the project status changes from 'In Progress' to 'Apply for Acceptance'.

Luo Yongjun immediately went to the administrative building, found Zhou Jianxin on the second floor, and said directly, "Our project is completed. Please help us pass the acceptance application."

After the administrative operation is passed, the project status will be changed to 'under acceptance'.

At that time, the school will contact the Institute of High Energy Physics to discuss the acceptance method. In fact, they can also contact the Institute of High Energy Physics for direct acceptance, but in name only the school and the Institute of High Energy Physics are cooperating, and they still have to give face to the administration and go through the process.

Having the school help with communication can also save a lot of work.

Zhou Jianxin was looking at the information and was wondering what Luo Yongjun was here for. Wouldn't it be better for him to ask the finance department for project reimbursement?
After hearing what Luo Yongjun said, he trembled all over and suddenly opened his mouth wide, "What did you say? Acceptance?"

"Yes." Luo Yongjun's expression was calm and his tone was calm, "Our project has been completed and can be accepted."

Zhou Jianxin was stunned.

He opened the project management background, checked the project progress, and found that he had indeed received the "acceptance application".

This is generally no joke.

If the operation approves the application and the project changes to acceptance status, the school will definitely communicate with the Institute of High Energy Physics on the acceptance issue.

But how is it possible!

How long has it been?

Zhou Jianxin took a deep breath and immediately picked up the phone and dialed the number. "Director Wang, big news! Big news!"

"Zhang Shuo's project is complete!"

"I'm not kidding, seriously! They've applied for acceptance, and Luo Darou is right next to me!"

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(End of this chapter)