Research starts with PhD students

Chapter 66 This time, let’s see whether you can survive or not! Look, the project is coming!

Donggang University.

Wang Zhigang is the vice president in charge of administration.

After taking the lead in setting up a temporary investigation team, Wang Zhigang announced that the problem would be solved with great vigor and determination.

The most core issue is whether there is plagiarism in Zhang Shuo’s master’s thesis.

In fact, everyone already has the answer in their hearts, but the investigation cannot rely solely on judgment, but must also find clear evidence.

Before the new investigation began, the investigation team reviewed the previous situation and found that all the evidence was unfavorable to Zhang Shuo.

For example, Huang Hui's paper was published four months in advance.

For example, when Zhou Kaijun explained the situation, he mentioned that Zhang Shuo talked to him about the core content of the thesis in the last four months.

At the same time, there are still large loopholes in the investigation.

One is plagiarism of a doctoral dissertation of our school, and it is a newly published SCI paper in the fourth zone that is very difficult to find.

Second, it is not normal to start writing the main content of the paper four months before submitting it.

Generally, mathematics papers need to be prepared at least half a year in advance, and some even have the content direction of the paper selected more than a year in advance.

If the students are not prepared, the tutor will also research the topic.

When Zhou Kaijun was investigated, he said that he "managed very few students" as an excuse. After all, he was an "Outstanding Young Scholar" scholar, had big projects on hand, had to lead a team, and was also a researcher at the Donggang Mathematics Center. His work was indeed very busy.

However, doubts cannot be ruled out.

If you really want to find out about an academic problem, you can definitely find it.

The investigation team thought of several ways and finally chose the most direct one: post an announcement on campus, stating that people who knew about the situation could report it to the General Office or send an email to a public mailbox.

The requirement for responding to the situation is that one must testify under one's real name, otherwise there is an inevitable situation where someone gives false testimony.

After a few people explained the situation, it was confirmed that Zhang Shuo's paper was not plagiarized.

On the contrary, Huang Hui's paper was plagiarized.

At the same time, Zhou Kaijun told lies.

There is no direct evidence to confirm Zhou Kaijun’s problem yet, and our situation needs to be discussed before a decision can be made.

Zhou Kaijun is a Young Outstanding Scholar.

He is also a researcher at the Mathematics Center. His teacher Jiang Weizhi is an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and one of the big names in mathematics.

It would be very troublesome to deal with such people, as the investigation team does not have the authority, and even if the information is to be made public, a high-level meeting must be held to make a decision.

So the investigation team decided to deal with Huang Hui’s issue first.

As I said, when it comes to academic issues, there are really too many ways to investigate them.

A professor in the investigation team directly suggested, "We can let Huang Hui defend the paper she published."

"It also includes the paper in Zone 2. I think that paper also has problems. It may not be plagiarism, but it is very likely not her research."

This is academic self-certification.

If the research was completed by Huang Hui herself, there would naturally be no problem in publicly defending it.

On the contrary, many problems can be easily seen.

……

Donggang University, second floor of the west science and technology building.

A petite, weak-looking girl walked quickly forward and finally stopped in front of an office door.

She looked down the hallway, then hesitantly reached out and opened the office door.

The person inside was sorting documents at the table. When he heard the sound of the door, he turned his head subconsciously. Then he shuddered all over and hurried over to pull the girl in. He also stretched his head to look at the corridor, and then quickly closed the door.

The two people were Huang Hui and Zhou Kaijun.

"Didn't I tell you not to come to me?" Zhou Kaijun was sweating nervously. He said sternly, "Don't you know what's going on now?"

He felt that he was in danger.

It would be fine if the school couldn’t find any evidence of his connection with Huang Hui. If they did, things would become even bigger.

Until now, he still can't figure it out.

He originally thought it was a small matter. A master's student under his supervision was found to have plagiarized and his diploma was revoked. It had no impact on him at all. He just stopped supervising students since he didn't have many students anyway.

Who would have thought that this master’s student would be able to publish two papers in the four major mathematics journals in one go after completing his doctorate?
Unbelievable!
After hearing the news, Zhou Kaijun couldn't help but slap himself a few times, regretting very much that he had testified for Huang Hui.

Otherwise, it would just be a doctoral student plagiarizing a short paper.

That's not a doctoral thesis, so the impact is not that big. He can do some work on it, and at most the worst that can happen is a disciplinary punishment of probation.

That's it.

Hearing Zhou Kaijun's two questions, Huang Hui couldn't help squatting on the ground and crying. She explained softly, "I have no choice. The school asked me to defend my thesis."

"It's not just the fourth-district paper, there's also the second-district paper. What should I do? I can't even understand it..."

"I'll be defending my thesis tomorrow."

"Sigh~~~"

Zhou Kaijun took a deep breath in shock. He didn't expect the investigation team to be so cruel.

The result of this matter is obvious. Huang Hui will definitely be convicted of plagiarism.

If the Zone 2 thesis also has to be defended and is judged not to be her own research, he may really be implicated.

Looking at the helpless crying little woman on the ground, Zhou Kaijun felt a little soft-hearted. He squatted down and gently hugged her back. After hesitating for a long time, he sighed, "Huang Hui, you should go abroad."

"Going abroad?" Huang Hui raised her head in surprise.

"Going abroad is the only way. By then, no one around you will know you."

Zhou Kaijun explained seriously, "You are a master's student from Donggang University, and you have published a second-tier paper. With your resume, you can apply to a good university."

"As long as you don't defend your thesis, the Zone 2 paper will not be judged to have problems, and the information released by the subsequent investigation team will not affect you."

"But...but..."

Huang Hui suddenly became very flustered.

She had never thought about going abroad, and her family conditions could not support studying abroad.

Zhou Kaijun also knew the situation. He pursed his lips tightly and made a decision after a long while. "I will surrender to you!"

"Leave first and find a place with few people. I'll come find you after things calm down."

"I'll arrange everything!"

As long as Huang Hui left, no one would know about their relationship, what happened during that time would not be investigated clearly, and it would not be serious if he was implicated.

This is the best way.

Huang Hui was persuaded and actually felt somewhat expectant.

Study abroad!

She had never dared to think about it before, and she was even worried about graduation.

If you can apply to a foreign university, you will definitely have a more exciting life after graduating with a Ph.D.

In front of the office.

Huang Hui thought about it and turned to Zhou Kaijun again, and asked tenderly, "I am going abroad. Will I still have you in my future life?"

"I wish I had you!"

This sentence made Zhou Kaijun feel like his heart melted. He stepped forward and hugged Huang Hui tightly, and said with a hard heart, "Let's go, let's go right away!"

"Don't come to me until things have calmed down." "Yeah."

Huang Hui nodded seriously, turned around and left.

What neither of them noticed was that there was a girl with lively eyes at the stairs, who was pointing her cell phone towards the corridor and taking several photos.

The twin ponytails on the back of her head were bouncing back and forth, which was very cute.

After Huang Hui left, she put her phone in her arms, blinked her big eyes again and again, and said to herself with a smile, "I knew there was a problem!"

"really!"

"I'll see whether you can survive this time!"

……

Soo Dong University.

A lot of people congratulated Zhang Shuo, including Huang Kai, Liu Chengjie and other classmates, as well as Luo Yongjun, Sun Xingli, Gao Xiaohong and others.

"The results of the Eastport University investigation are out, and they say they will restore your degree."

"that is really good!"

"This matter has caused such a big stir, and now it finally has a result."

"No one will ever talk about a master's degree again..."

Zhang Shuo didn't think there was anything to congratulate, as he didn't get a new degree; his original degree was merely restored.

In reality, degrees cannot be restored.

After his graduation thesis was suspected of plagiarism, Donggang University revoked his degree, and each degree certificate has a unique number.

If they say they want to restore the degree now, they will just issue a new degree certificate and the number will be different.

The original degree certificate is still invalid.

Zhang Shuo had no plans to go to Donggang University to get a new degree certificate. Instead, he felt that his original cancelled degree certificate was more meaningful.

That can be kept as a memory forever!
He continued his normal life that day and went to the computer room after class to study a problem.

The current research content is a collaborative study with Agostini, which has entered the stage of correcting the signal evaluation system.

Agostini said he wanted to come to Soviet University.

Then, they can work together and the research progress will be much faster.

The second is to study the experimental analysis results of the Institute of High Energy Physics.

Based on the Liplos-Pamir equation, Zhang Shuo proposed a range framework to illustrate the relationship between experimental analysis deviation and electromagnetic energy loss.

“There’s no point in calculating it.”

"This kind of small experiment has a relatively accurate analysis result, but the experiment does not measure the value of electromagnetic energy loss."

"Without this key value, we cannot verify it. We can only roughly estimate that it is within the range..."

When Zhang Shuo was thinking, there was a sudden noise in the corridor.

Luo Yongjun had been busy writing his thesis. He looked at the door impatiently and shouted, "Who is it?"

"What's wrong!"

As soon as he finished speaking, a group of people came rushing in.

The leader was the administrative director Wang Duoju, accompanied by the assistant director Zhou Jianxin, and several professors from the mathematics department followed behind.

Luo Yongjun quickly stood up and asked several professors behind him about the situation.

Wang Duoju walked towards Zhang Shuo and greeted him with a smile, "Zhang Shuo, what are you busy with?"

"Director Wang."

Zhang Shuo agreed and stood up.

Wang Duoju said, "It's like this. The school received a message from the software institute. They want to cooperate with you to develop PDE calculation software."

"There is a company that also has this intention and they sent an inquiry letter to the school."

Zhang Shuo understood, and he shook his head and refused, "I am not interested in this research. You can contact the Institute of Science and Engineering. Vice President Sheng is very interested."

Wang Duoju and Zhou Jianxin looked at each other and immediately looked miserable. "The problem is, both the software institute and the company specifically want to cooperate with you!"

After she finished speaking, she glanced at Luo Yongjun.

Luo Yongjun spread out his hands and gave a helpless look.

He still doesn't understand!

A project with millions of dollars in funding, how great!

It is hard to say for the moment whether the Institute of High Energy Physics has any projects or not. But as long as I have a computing software project in hand, I don't have to worry about it for several years.

Wang Duoju glared at him in disappointment and immediately signaled to the professors behind her with her eyes.

Li Weihua immediately stepped forward and advised, "Zhang Shuo, I suggest you cooperate with the enterprise. The funding for software is small, but the projects for enterprise cooperation are different, and everything can be negotiated."

"You may not know about this kind of cooperation project. Let me tell you..."

Li Weihua spoke a lot in succession, explaining the differences between vertical projects, horizontal projects and personal projects.

For vertical projects, that is, projects with funds designated by the National Scientific Research Fund, all funds are strictly managed and the use of funds is subject to strict restrictions.

For example, labor costs and indirect expenses all have prescribed proportions, and reimbursement of expenditures also requires various approvals.

Horizontal projects generally refer to school-enterprise cooperation projects.

There are two types of school-enterprise cooperation projects. One is negotiated by the school, where the enterprise cooperates with the school on a regular basis and the school assigns the project to individuals.

The requirements for this type of project are more relaxed, but the funding management is still relatively strict.

The most relaxed one is another type of school-enterprise cooperation, which is a project negotiated by an individual, and can also be directly called a "personal project".

Zhang Shuo’s cooperation with the Institute of High Energy Physics is a personal project. Personal projects can be negotiated, and the regulations on the use of funds are not so strict.

It can even be said that the funds can be treated as a fixed investment, and with Party A's consent, there is no problem with the funds being transferred to personal accounts.

Now software institutes and companies specifically ask Zhang Shuo to develop computing software, and the projects that have been negotiated are considered personal projects.

The difference is that the Software Institute is a national scientific research institution.

They communicated with Soochow University through formal channels, and then contacted Zhang Shuo through Soochow University to discuss project issues.

It’s different for enterprises.

By cooperating with enterprises, as long as the research can be completed, there is no problem in putting the funds into your own pocket.

After Li Weihua finished speaking, other professors took turns to persuade him, "Zhang Shuo, it would be a pity to miss such a high-funded project."

"It's a multi-million dollar project. Having a project like this gives you peace of mind."

"It's great that I can use the funds for my personal project as I please, and I can negotiate, maybe I can get a high price!"

"The Software Institute is also good. It's a formal cooperation and the results will be recorded in the archives. It will be useful for your future evaluation as an academician..."

Zhang Shuo pressed his forehead in distress and said, "Don't try to persuade me. I really don't want to do this research."

"And I really don't have time."

It's said to be late, but it's almost there.

The phone rang.

Zhang Shuo picked up his phone and saw that it was Cui Kaiwen who was calling. He showed the incoming call page to a few people and said with a smile, "Look, the project is here..."

(End of this chapter)