Research starts with PhD students

Chapter 67 How can the gap between people be so big? Speech by successful people!
Zhang Shuo walked aside and answered the phone.

Cui Kaiwen called to say that they had already set off for Suzhou University.

This time, Cui Kaiwen led the team to Soochow University, and they were accompanied by Bao Hexing, Liu Ye and four other researchers and associate researchers.

The team lineup is very gorgeous.

They mainly came to discuss the algorithm project.

After Zhang Shuo put down the phone, several professors came over and asked, "What project?"

"What project can catch up with computing software?"

"That's a software project, which has much more funding than a math project!"

"Zhang Shuo, please think about it again."

They all came here voluntarily to persuade Zhang Shuo. Thinking about the millions of dollars of projects slipping away from their hands, they felt heartbroken, heartbroken, and even more heartbroken...

It hurts my heart!
How difficult it is to apply for funding for the School of Mathematics!
The mathematics-related programs with the highest funding are the Excellent Young Scholars and Young Distinguished Scientists programs. Similar programs are extremely rare and are basically all allocated to researchers at the highest courts.

For other doctoral supervisors, master's supervisors and young teachers, it is considered very outstanding if they have a general project funded by the National Fund. Most of them only have youth projects supported by provincial scientific research funds, or ordinary projects supported by the school.

The funding for these projects will not exceed 200,000 yuan, and is generally less than 100,000 yuan, with many only costing tens of thousands of yuan.

The funding period is usually between three and five years, and the average annual funding is pitifully small.

Therefore, many mathematics professors who attend academic conferences always grab cheap air tickets, stay in budget hotels, and consciously save money by eating frugally.

Zhang Shuo was a little annoyed by the advice, "I really don't have time. I have to take on a new project at the Institute of High Energy Physics soon..."

"Didn't you just finish that project?"

"Zhang Shuo, please think about it again!"

"What other projects can we have..."

"..."

Gao Xiaohong walked in. As soon as she entered the room, she saw several professors surrounding Zhang Shuo. She looked at Luo Yongjun with confusion.

Luo Yongjun gave him a look that said 'just say it if you have something to say'.

Gao Xiaohong walked over and asked, "Zhang Shuo, have you received the news? The Institute of High Energy Physics has sent a team to discuss the project with you, right?"

"They said they were here to visit the Quantum Research Institute. I guess they just dropped by."

"That's what Professor Qiu said."

She pursed her lips as she spoke.

“Is there really a project?”

Wang Duoju suddenly realized what was happening and immediately asked Gao Xiaohong, "Are the team from the Institute of High Energy Physics here to discuss a project with Zhang Shuo? Not the one from last time? A new project?"

"It should be, but I'm not sure."

Gao Xiaohong explained, "They said they were here to visit, but Professor Qiu said they were probably here to discuss an algorithm project with Zhang Shuo. The Quantum Research Institute knew about this."

"Is it true?"

“Why is there another project?”

"Not the one from last time?"

Several professors were stunned.

After Gao Xiaohong's explanation, they were sure that Zhang Shuo was not talking nonsense.

There really is a new project!
Before coming, they prepared a lot of lines and persuaded Zhang Shuo for a long time, hoping that he could take on a big project.

People don’t care at all. Do they have a second big project with the Institute of High Energy Physics?

The last one was worth millions, so this time it should be even more, right? It should be no worse than a computing software project, right?
Several professors fell silent as they thought.

They finally understood why Zhang Shuo looked down on the computing software project.

For the last project, there was a rumor that Zhang Shuo personally received a grant of one million yuan. To put it bluntly, it was a one million yuan bonus!

Now there is a new project, another million?

Zhang Shuo...

He's still just a PhD student!

Think about myself. I have lived to such an old age and done so much research, but I am still worried about funding.

How can the gap between people be so big?
……

In the afternoon, Cui Kaiwen and his team came to Suzhou University.

Accompanied by the school, the group went to the experimental center of the Quantum Institute of the School of Physics and met with Academician Zhou Gang, director of the institute.

The School of Physics of Soochow University is the best developed among the several colleges of the Faculty of Science and has the largest number of academicians.

The School of Physics has four academicians.

Zhou Gang is in charge of the Quantum Research Institute and is also one of the heavyweight scholars in the academy.

Zhou Gang personally led the group to visit the experimental center of the Quantum Institute, and then walked around the campus.

Along the way, they talked about the cooperative projects between the Institute of High Energy Physics and the School of Physics.

The cooperation between the Institute of Quantum Physics and the Institute of High Energy Physics is mainly in the research direction of experimental physics involving quantum problems.

Liu Ye knows a lot about this.

So Liu Ye was talking to Zhou Gang all the way. When they talked about the purpose of the group, Zhou Gang smiled and said, "Are you here to discuss algorithm problems with Zhang Shuo from the School of Mathematics?"

"I heard that you are going to collaborate on an algorithm project?"

"Yes."

Liu Ye opened his mouth, but nodded to confirm, then asked in confusion, "How did you know?"

Zhou Gang laughed and said, "I can guess it."

"The news that Director Cao and Academician Tan had an argument during the project meeting of your institute has spread all over the circle."

"Director Cao insisted on cooperating with Zhang Shuo, but Academician Tan opposed..."

He shook his head and commented, "Academician Tan is too old-fashioned. He always looks at his own little piece of land. He opposes any cooperative project."

"I remember that he also opposed the cooperation between the Quantum Research Institute and the Physics Center, but the decision was made by Academician Gao Hongli, so his opposition was useless."

"The only thing he doesn't object to is the work of the CP group. That's the research he's in charge of, and he can't figure it out himself, so he can only increase cooperation..."

At the end, Zhou Gang's tone was obviously sarcastic.

Liu Ye could only smile when he heard this. After all, he was a researcher at the Physics Center and could not speak ill of Tan Zhiming publicly.

Bao Hexing and Tan Zhiming had a conflict, and he agreed, "Academician Zhou, you are absolutely right. Academician Tan likes to interfere in other people's projects, always opposing them."

"For his own project, he applied for cooperation and expansion..."

"This time the CP team is expanding its scale and asking for 100 million yuan in funding!"

Everyone else laughed along.

After all, the person they were talking about was an academician, and only Zhou Gang and Bao Hexing could speak about it.

After talking about Tan Zhiming for a few words, Zhou Gang said directly, "Since you are here for the algorithm, don't waste your time here."

"That's great. I also want to meet Zhang Shuo. He's a big celebrity now."

"Let's go together!" he said and walked towards the administrative building.

……

Cui Kaiwen and Zhang Shuo agreed to meet at 4 p.m., but the time was moved forward.

Zhang Shuo answered the phone in the computer room.

He simply went to the conference room with Luo Yongjun and Sun Xingli. Luo Yongjun would be a participant in the project, while Sun Xingli would just make up the numbers.

The two sides were discussing the project.

There are seven people from the Institute of High Energy Physics, and Zhang Shuo and Luo Yongjun are only two of them. It feels good to have Sun Xingli to make up the number.

When he arrived at the door of the conference room, Zhang Shuo realized that it didn't matter whether Sun Xingli came or not, because there were too many people inside.

Fortunately, most of them are from the school, and the school is still on our side.

As soon as Zhang Shuo entered the room and said hello, Qiu Zhichao took him to introduce him to Academician Zhou Gang.

"You are young and have a lot of promise!"

"You are very famous in the School of Physics."

Zhou Gang praised him several times in a row, and then said, "I heard that you are a researcher at the High Court?"

"Have you ever considered coming to the School of Physics? The Quantum Institute or any of the other institutions you can choose from."

Zhang Shuo did not give a direct answer, but changed the subject and said, "Let's talk about the project today."

“Yes, the project is the most important.”

Zhou Gang smiled and sat down.

Zhang Shuo and Cui Kaiwen and their group also greeted each other, shook hands and got to know each other, then found their seats and sat down.

He sat with Luo Yongjun, and next to him was Sun Xingli.

After everyone was seated, Luo Yongjun took out a stack of documents, which contained several printed reports. The contents were mainly drafted framework diagrams and descriptions of the algorithms.

He sent the report to Cui Kevin and others.

Zhang Shuo explained, "This is the program architecture diagram. There are some instructions in it. You can take a look at it first."

The person opposite flipped open the report and took a look.

Not long after, Cui Kaiwen closed the report and asked formally, "Professor Zhang, Professor Luo, and this one..."

"Professor Sun!"

Sun Xingli consciously gave his surname. As he spoke, he and Luo Yongjun looked at each other and both felt something strange.

Professor Zhang?
Zhang Shuo works as a researcher at the Supreme Court, so it seems okay to call him "professor", but it still sounds weird after getting used to calling him by his name.

Cui Kaiwen nodded towards Sun Xingli. He mainly talked to Zhang Shuo, "We have roughly understood the framework and structure of the algorithm."

“What we want to know is how to carry out the most core digital transformation of experiments.”

“Can you tell me more about this part?”

This is the core question.

At the CHEP conference, Zhang Shuo talked about the algorithmic framework for large-scale experimental deviation analysis, the core of which is digital conversion and digital analysis.

But there was no discussion at all on how to convert the numbers specifically.

Zhang Shuo stood up after hearing this and said, "Then let's skip the previous steps and get straight to the point."

After he finished speaking, he walked to the podium and unfolded the document in his hand, which was a large printed drawing.

The drawing is spread out on the blackboard, and you can see the modules and connections marked on it, as well as some text descriptions.

Zhang Shuo explained, “Before you can digitize the experiment, you must first digitize the analog.”

"Large-scale experiments have many parameters, and many of them are interrelated, so we first have to construct a mathematical system."

"Starting from the detection data of massive particles..."

Zhang Shuo started talking.

He just gave a general idea and explained the conversion method, but did not go into detail on how to convert each parameter.

Soon, the analog conversion method is finished.

Cui Kaiwen's team all understood what was said, and they all thought the conversion method was very clever, and they kept nodding along.

Most of the professors who came to watch did not quite understand what was being said. They only had a general understanding of particle collision experiments, which involved complex parameter issues, and there were too many things they did not understand.

After Zhang Shuo finished talking about the analog conversion, he entered the experimental conversion stage. "There is a deviation evaluation system in the central anchor point connection algorithm. We can use the calculation method in it to perform digital conversion on the experimental test data."

“The method is not difficult to understand.”

“First, put all the related data into one module and then do the computational processing,” he said.

"During this splitting process, we need to sort out the logical problems involved."

"When simplified to ..."

"After the split is completed, in order to prove the logical relationship, it is necessary to screen the sub-modules..."

"Next step……"

"The amount of computation required for the conversion process is very large, so it requires..."

Zhang Shuo explained the problem of digital conversion of experiments.

This step is the core and also the most complicated. It is not easy to just understand the framework.

He still only spoke roughly, rather than explaining the logic in detail, and the related logic and calculation problems were only mentioned briefly.

Even so, it still makes people dizzy.

Many people don’t understand.

At first they listened carefully, but later they just gave up.

At this time, including Zhou Gang, Qiu Zhichao, and other professors, all focused their attention on Zhang Shuo.

Zhang Shuo was explaining non-stop. He was very confident, and his voice was soft but firm, well-organized, and very convincing.

It felt like a successful person giving a speech!

“That’s amazing!”

Zhou Gang sighed, "No wonder he is so famous, he really has a way with it, this kind of style is something that many people will never have in their lifetime."

"Who would have thought that he was just a doctoral student a month ago, and half a year ago..."

He smiled and shook his head.

Qiu Zhichao shook his head with some regret. "When I invited him to the Quantum Research Institute, I was too conservative. I told him that he could come directly after graduation and start as an associate researcher."

“We should have discussed it at the time and directly invited him to serve as a researcher.”

"It's not your fault. Who knows?"

Zhou Gang shook his head and smiled, "He may come to the School of Physics in the future. His research is related to high-energy physics or computational mathematics."

"Hopefully."

(End of this chapter)