Research starts with PhD students

Chapter 45: Major achievements released in the conference hall?

After a night's rest in the hotel, the meeting officially started the next day.

The CHEP meeting also begins with an award ceremony.

After the conference organizer gave a speech, the first step was to present the CHEP conference-specific Youth Award and Scientific Research Contribution Award.

The Youth Award was presented to Bills-Brook, who made an outstanding research report at the last meeting.

The Scientific Research Contribution Award was presented to Boorman-Agostini, a world-renowned experimental physicist, data analysis expert, and a top figure in the European Organization for Nuclear Research. The team he led has made great contributions to past research.

Bills-Brook was very excited when he received the award. He waved enthusiastically to the audience and prepared a passionate acceptance speech.

Although this is just a small award and does not have any special significance, after all, there are only two awards given out, so winning one of them can be considered an honor.

Burman-Agostini's performance was just the opposite. There was no smile on his face at all. He didn't even say a word of extra greeting when receiving the award. He just took the medal and certificate and walked straight off the stage.

"What's happening here?"

Many people asked the same question.

Sitting in front of Zhang Shuo was a white man with a big beard, who looked like a Nordic person.

The bearded man smiled and explained to the people around him, "Agostini has always been concerned about the Nobel Prize in Physics. He believes that the discovery of the God particle should also be awarded a Nobel Prize to experimental physicists."

"But the prize went only to Engler and Higgs, who described the Standard Model of particles and predicted the Higgs boson."

"Agostini believes that this denies the contributions of experimental physicists, and that he and his team made the greatest contribution to the discovery of the God particle."

In other words, Agostini was upset about not winning the Nobel Prize in Physics, rather than speaking up for experimental physicists.

"Of course he doesn't care about the small awards nowadays, but this meeting still depends on him..."

"He said he would release the latest results and that it would shock the world!"

The bearded man made a sarcastic comment, "But what big achievement can we have now? Is it the discovery of new particles, or the confirmation of the existence of antimatter?"

"I am most optimistic about the new algorithm developed by the Chinese. It is very interesting. It can be analyzed by combining experiments and simulations. Only such new methods can lead to discoveries..."

As he was speaking, he turned around and saw Zhang Shuo, and asked suspiciously, "Are you the Chinese man? I heard he is a doctoral student, you..."

A group of people around looked over.

Zhang Shuo smiled and waved his hands, denying, "I know him, he's in our team, he's very young and handsome."

The bearded man took a closer look at Zhang Shuo and nodded in approval, "Indeed, you are not handsome at all."

Zhang Shuo's face turned dark.

Gao Xiaohong burst out laughing as she listened.

After the award ceremony, the meeting got down to business.

Each institution sent a representative to give a work report on stage, explaining what kind of research they had done and what progress had been made.

During the period, famous scholars will take the stage to speak, and there will also be some special reports, including detection analysis, data calculation, etc.

The main venue has always been a platform for communication among various high-energy physics institutions.

Scholars who are not interested in institutional content can go to two small conference rooms where team and individual research reports are released.

Invited speakers will also give presentations in the small hall.

Zhang Shuo and Gao Xiaohong went to the small hall together.

The content in the small hall is much more interesting, as it publishes the latest research of individuals or teams.

Relatively speaking, the team conducts more large-scale research, such as automated data acquisition of AI-based experimental devices, large-scale software frameworks for scientific data processing, efficient data compression technology, etc.

There were also some new results of personal research published. An engineer working for a nuclear organization published a study on "data screening using probes", called "Particle screening method based on targeted detection".

After listening to the introduction of the research, Zhang Shuo suddenly thought of the system tasks. Could the research done by others also improve the progress of the task system?

He tried to create a mission—
【Task 2】

[Research project name: Particle screening method based on targeted detection (difficulty assessment: D). ]

【Progress: 0.003%.】

"Is it really okay?"

Zhang Shuo immediately became alert and listened to the explanation on the stage. At the same time, the progress of the task was also increasing rapidly.

[Task 4.303, progress +%. ]

[Task 7.112, progress +%. ]

[Task 6.19, progress +...]

When the person on the stage finished his explanation, the system also gave new prompts.

【Task 2 has been completed and can be submitted! 】

Zhang Shuo quickly submitted the task, only to find that the system had not refreshed any messages.

"Nothing?"

"Aren't there two research coins as rewards for D-level missions?"

"It seems that using a bug to earn coins is not going to work!"

Although he did not receive the two scientific research coins as a reward for the mission, Zhang Shuo still felt that it was very rewarding. When the mission was completed, he had a deeper understanding of the research.

It was like doing your own research.

The task progress has reached 100%, and I can understand it thoroughly from beginning to end. The only pity is that CHEP is different from regular academic conferences. The latest research results are rarely released. Most of them are work reports or technical breakthroughs of large teams.

It is impossible to explain all the complex algorithms studied by a large team even if they are giving a report on stage, and it is also impossible to increase the task progress to 100%.

……

Zhang Shuo listened to two more reports, looked at the time, and went out to the restaurant with Gao Xiaohong.

When I arrived at the restaurant, I happened to meet Roberto Castello. He waved and said hello, then found a quiet place to sit down.

At this time, Burman Agostini, who received the award in the morning, walked in with a strong momentum. He was followed by several people, giving people the feeling that some big shot was coming.

Agostini entered the restaurant, stood at the door, took a look, and then walked straight towards Roberto Castello.

The two of them talked for a few words together, then turned their heads and looked in the direction of Zhang Shuo.

Not long after, Agostini walked towards Zhang Shuo.

Agostini walked to the table and said directly, "The algorithm you studied is very novel, especially the bias assessment system."

"My latest research draws on your evaluation system, so I want to thank you."

Zhang Shuo nodded and said nonchalantly, "You're welcome. Research is all about mutual reference."

Agostini didn't seem very friendly, or he didn't know what friendliness was.

He said bluntly, "Your algorithm can analyze past data and perhaps make some discoveries, but that is in the future."

"We have made a major discovery in our research, and you will find out this afternoon!"

"Thank you again."

Zhang Shuo couldn't figure out whether the other party was being sarcastic or thanking him. He said with a smile, "Mr. Agostini, you have to understand one thing. I'm just a doctoral student in the Department of Mathematics. I'm not your competitor."

"You borrowed my algorithm, made a discovery in your research, and then showed me your research... What's the point of doing this?"

Agostini opened his mouth, not knowing how to answer for a moment.

He simply turned around and walked away.

Gao Xiaohong said, "I now understand why many people don't like him."

"There are always some weirdos in the academic world. Just get used to it." Zhang Shuo pointed to his head and shook his head.

Gao Xiaohong smiled at first, then suddenly felt something was wrong, "I always feel that this sentence should be said by me. I am a teacher and an associate professor, and you are a doctoral student...but you seem to have more experience than me."

"Perhaps you can look for the reason in yourself?" Zhang Shuo stared at Gao Xiaohong and asked back seriously.

This made Gao Xiaohong fall into a brief confusion. Is it because I have too little experience?

……

At two o'clock in the afternoon, Hall No. 3 of the conference hall was packed with people.

This small hall, which could only hold less than 200 people, was packed with more than 300 people. Half of the participants came to the small hall, leaving the organizers at a loss.

Some people stood in the aisle, some stood in the back row, and some simply squeezed at the door.

Zhang Shuo and Gao Xiaohong arrived earlier and they successfully found seats in the back row, thanks to the bearded man in the morning, who occupied two seats with his huge body.

When he saw Zhang Shuo, he took the initiative to give him a seat, and with the addition of a seat next to him, the two of them successfully sat down.

"Thank you."

Zhang Shuo sat down and thanked the bearded man. He also extended his hand and introduced himself, "Zhang Shuo."

The bearded man was stunned for a moment. "When I saw you this morning, I thought you might be Zhang Shuo."

“It’s rare to see someone this young.”

"I heard that he is just a doctoral student..."

Zhang Shuo explained somewhat embarrassedly, "There were a lot of people around at the time, and I didn't want to be the focus."

"Okay, I understand."

The bearded white man shook hands with Zhang Shuo and introduced himself, "Demant Hansen, my name is Demant, you can call me Demant."

After introducing each other, Demant talked about Agostini. "Agostini is not a very good person, but he said he wanted to publish important results, so so many people came."

"We don't know what the major achievement is. They kept the news secret and no one else knew about it."

"It may be related to the results obtained by using a new algorithm to analyze data." Zhang Shuo explained, "I chatted with him for a few minutes at noon, and he seemed to mean this."

"You can actually chat with him?" Demant opened his mouth in surprise.

“It wasn’t a very pleasant process.”

"This is normal."

While the two were chatting, Agostini walked onto the stage aggressively.

After Agostini came on stage, he put his hands on the table and said to everyone very seriously, "Now I will announce a major achievement!"

"My team and I used a brand new algorithm to analyze the positive and negative Corsi hyperon decay data and found a clear CP violation signal!"

"In other words, we have solved the mystery of why matter exists in the universe and why primordial antimatter disappears!"

"Hula~~~"

As soon as the words fell, the venue fell into an uproar.

(End of this chapter)