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The Hilton Hotel that Xu Qiu and the others stayed in is a four-star hotel, relatively high-grade, with dedicated concierge services, including parking attendants, bellboys, etc. If guests need it, they can help with parking and carrying luggage.

The porter waiting outside the Hilton Hotel was a young Caucasian guy. He saw Xu Qiu and the others getting off the taxi with their luggage, and offered to help carry the luggage.

Xu Qiu and the others naturally declined. Wei Xingsi was almost the one who paid the bill before. They only had one taxi purchase in the beautiful country. The cash in their hands was either 50 dollars or 100 dollars in face value, so it was inconvenient to tip.

You can't give $100 and ask the other party to come back with $97 in change, it seems impolite.

The three of them entered the hotel, as if they had stepped into a new world.

Because the air-conditioning inside the hotel is fully turned on, compared with the hot environment outside, it is a paradise.

Xu Qiu moved towards the front desk of the hotel while looking at the surrounding environment.

They just entered the hotel through the south main entrance. In addition to the main entrance, there are two side entrances on the east and west.

When booking the hotel before, Xu Qiu noticed that the MRS Convention and Exhibition Center is located in the east direction of the hotel, so if you want to go to the venue later, you can leave directly from the east gate.

The area of ​​the hall is very large. On one side there are sofas and coffee tables for guests to rest temporarily and discuss affairs; on the other side is a bar-style restaurant, but it is not open now. In the center of the hall, there are from the first floor to the tenth floor A certain area is opened up, and it is extraordinarily transparent when viewed from the bottom to the top.

There are two free drink supply points at the conspicuous position of the entrance. Judging from the appearance of the drinks, one of them should be freshly squeezed watermelon juice, and the other is lemonade with mint leaves.

The three of them walked to the front desk of the hotel, where a guest was checking in.

After queuing up, Xu Qiu turned around and asked, "Did that little black brother take a detour just now?"

"Hmm... I took a detour," Han Jiaying said, referring to the Gugou map, "but he seems to have some conscience, and he didn't make a detour too obviously. It cost about 5 dollars more for the fare."

Xu Qiu let out an "oh", and threw the business card given by the black brother into the trash can next to him.

He probably understood why Wei Xingsi called for a taxi by himself. He might be saying, "I have a calling card from Pretty Country. I'm familiar with Pretty Country. Don't try to kill me."

Of course, regardless of whether the black guy made a detour or not, Xu Qiu did not intend to contact the other party. The reason is very simple. He does not have a mobile phone number of the beautiful country, and it is impossible to get a SIM of the beautiful country just to call a taxi. Card.

The person who checked in in front was an old man, most likely a curry native who came to the MRS meeting, because the English spoken by the other party had a strong curry taste, Xu Qiu could barely understand what the other party said: "Ji Li Gu la, Gu Lu Gollum..."

The caucasian guy at the front desk of the hotel spoke with an accent, but Xu Qiu didn't find it difficult to hear.

After waiting for a few minutes, Brother Curry finally checked in. It was Xu Qiu's turn. After showing their passports and freezing a deposit of 1,000 dollars on their credit cards, the three of them successfully checked in to the hotel and got their room card.

Generally, the check-out time of the hotel is around 12:00 noon, and the check-in time is around 2:00 pm, but now that there are vacancies, the front desk of the hotel asked Xu Qiu and the others to check in early.

The two rooms are both on the 16th floor, not far from each other. Xu Qiu's room number is 1607, a double room, while Wu Feifei and Han Jiaying's room number is 1612, a standard room.

The three of Xu Qiu walked towards the elevator. At this moment, an empty elevator came to the first floor, so they pulled the suitcases and walked in.

Through the elevator button next to it, it can be seen that this Hilton Hotel has a total of 36 floors.

Of course, the possibility that there are higher floors that require a special elevator to go to is not ruled out.

In addition to accommodation, this hotel also provides a variety of services, including swimming pools, gymnasiums, meeting rooms and other facilities.

In addition, for security reasons, the hotel must first swipe the card before the elevator can run.

After Xu Qiu swiped his room card on the card reader, a signal light under the elevator buttons 1-29 lit up, while the signal lights below the 30-36 buttons were dimmed.

This shows that Xu Qiu's room card is only authorized to go to floors 1-29, but not to floors 30-36. The latter is most likely reserved for VIP guests, such as guests staying in the presidential suite.

Xu Qiu pressed the "16" button...

The elevator doors close...

The number on the digital display panel marking the real-time elevator floor is beating rapidly...

The number stops when it changes to 16...

The elevator doors open...

"Are you on the 16th floor so soon?" Han Jiaying leaned towards Xu Qiu lightly, and said, "This elevator goes so fast, I'm a little dizzy."

Xu Qiu helped the school girl up, and replied: "It was really fast, probably only about ten seconds passed."

In China, Xu Qiu has never come into contact with such a fast-moving elevator, and he doesn't know what factors are related to its running speed when designing an elevator.

Although his intuition told him that the speed may be positively related to the height of the floor, but the tallest twin buildings in the Modu Comprehensive University are not too low, with 33 floors, but the speed of the elevator is not fast.

In school, Xu Qiu often takes the elevator from the first floor to the department office of the Materials Department on the seventh floor in the east main building of the Twin Towers, but even if it is a direct elevator, it takes more than 10 seconds each time, compared to here It takes more time to go from the 1st floor to the 16th floor.

At this time, Wu Feifei interjected in a timely manner: "When shall we gather and register at the venue?"

Xu Qiu glanced at the time, it was ten forty in the morning, and said, "A quarter past eleven, after registration, let's find a place to have lunch, how about it?"

Wu Feifei nodded: "Yes, yes."

Xu Qiu returned to his room 1607, swiped his card, opened the door, closed the door, left his luggage, and turned on the air conditioner in one go.

It is not necessary to insert the room card into the card slot in front of the door to have electricity like domestic express hotels, but the room is kept powered on 24 hours a day.

The size of the room is larger than the standard room of the three-star hotel in Los Angeles yesterday, but there is not much difference in the types of furniture:

Private bathroom, a large bed, a sofa bed, a coffee table, several stools, and a cabinet.

There is a TV, a coffee machine, a small refrigerator, and a "treasure chest" in the cabinet.

Inside the "little treasure box", there are two free bottles of drinking water and two free powdered coffee bags.

This coffee bag does not look like instant coffee. It should be coffee powder ground from coffee beans. It needs to be brewed in a coffee machine before drinking.

There are charges for other things, including family planning supplies, etc., but due to the premium of star-rated hotels and exchange rate premium, Xu Qiu glanced at the price list and found that the minimum starting price was 5 knives, so he was not interested in knowing more about it. up.

At the end of the room is a window, through which you can see the street view outside. The pedestrians on the road are like ants, and the cars are just bigger ants.

It's no wonder that bosses like to work on the top floors of high-rise office buildings. From the top down, all living beings are ants.

Xu Qiu charged the charging treasure, portable WIFI, and mobile phone, and then ran to the bathroom to take a shower.

In less than twenty minutes from the airport to the hotel, he was already sweating half of his body.

The main reason is that when he set off from Shanghai, he didn't expect it to be so hot here, and he still wore long sleeves and trousers.

After taking a shower, the air conditioner had already lowered the temperature in the room to around 20 degrees Celsius. Xu Qiu decisively changed into short sleeves and shorts, lying on the big bed with the word "too".

Occupying a big soft bed alone is very comfortable.

Soon, when it was a quarter past eleven, Xu Qiu, with his backpack on his back, brought his portable WIFI and power bank, gathered at the elevator entrance with Wu Feifei and Han Jiaying, and swiped his card to go downstairs.

The faces of the two girls are blingbling, and they should be sunscreens that reflect light.

In addition, they each took a sunshade, but neither carried a schoolbag.

The MRS Convention and Exhibition Center is just to the east of the hotel, separated by a street in the middle, which is equivalent to the door to the door of the Hilton Hotel.

Seeing the gate of the convention and exhibition center very close at hand, Xu Qiu complained, "We live directly next to the convention and exhibition center."

Han Jiaying gave a "hmm" and added: "These hotels should be specially built for this exhibition center, of course they should be closer."

Xu Qiu nodded: "That's true."

The three of them entered the exhibition center. This morning is the time for centralized registration, so the flow of people inside the venue is relatively large.

Xu Qiu looked around and found that there were more Caucasian and yellow people, and relatively few black people. The visual ratio was roughly 4.5:4:1.5.

Some people seem to have completed the registration and are walking towards the gate. They have a hanging tag around their necks, with their names, MRS spring meeting, etc. printed on the tag.

Not far from the entrance, there is a signboard with information about registration:

According to the initials of each person's surname, the venue divides the visiting scholars into several registration areas, and they need to register in the corresponding areas.

Xu Qiu is X, Han Jiaying is H, Wu Feifei is W, and the registration places of the three are different.

Fortunately, there is WIFI in the venue and the hotel. In these areas, the three of them don’t have much need for portable WIFI, and it’s okay to be separated for a short time.

After confirming that they had connected to the WIFI of the convention center and that the network was smooth, the three parted ways, and each went to the location corresponding to their initials to register.

On Xu Qiu's side, the person in charge of the registration was a Caucasian lady, who handed over a piece of paper and asked to fill in some basic information.

After filling it out, Xu Qiu returned the paper and showed his passport.

The staff searched the computer for a while, then rummaged through a pile of hang tags, found Xu Qiu's hang tag, and stuffed it to Xu Qiu along with other things.

Xu Qiu stepped aside to open the queuing channel for registration, and found a nearby table to count the materials he got, including:

A cartoon version of the map around the venue, which marked the main hotels and landmarks nearby.

A card holder with the MRS spring meeting printed on it, which is of no practical use and can only be used as a souvenir.

A tag that can be hung around the neck, which is the kind that Xu Qiu saw other people wearing just now.

Theoretically, only those who wear tags can enter the venue, but Xu Qiu found that the inspection at the venue is not strict, and the number of security guards that can be seen is not even as many as that of the Hilton Hotel next door. It seems that Wei Xingsi mentioned earlier that "someone Will not register and then sneak in to listen" phenomenon, what is said is true.

After all, the registration fee for the MRS conference is still quite high, with $150 for students and nearly $1,000 for teachers, which is not a small amount for scientific researchers who do not have mines at home.

Even in a country like the Beautiful Country, which pays more attention to the treatment of scientific research workers, the salary of scientific research workers is not the top, and the salary income is significantly lower than that of doctors, lawyers, IT industry, financial industry, and politicians.

Finally, there is an MRS exhibition brochure, which is about 40 cm long, 30 cm wide, and 20 cm thick. It feels very heavy in the hand.

Xu Qiu flipped through the exhibition manual. There are hundreds of pages in total, listing the specific meeting arrangements for each day in detail, including speakers, report summaries, report venues, etc., as well as catalogs and forms at all levels for assistance. Search is very convenient.

This morning is mainly for the registration of participants, and there is no specific report arrangement.

Starting this afternoon, conference reports in various fields of materials science have been fully scheduled.

Most reports are 15-minute reports, 10 minutes for questions, 25 minutes in total, and for a small number of expert scholars, the speech time will be extended to 30 minutes, and the question time will also be extended to 15 minutes to 45 minutes in total.

The time and location of the report are arranged according to the theme, and the same theme will be prioritized in different time periods in the same room on the same day.

In this way, if you are a practitioner of the topic, you don't need to run around, you just need to listen to the reports continuously in one room.

The time for Xu Qiu's report was arranged in Room A217. The first session on the morning of April 6th started at 8:00 and ended at 8:45, followed by many reports on the progress of organic photovoltaics.

It can be considered that Xu Qiu's report is the opening speech of the small topic of organic photovoltaics.

However, although the report in the field of organic photovoltaics was scheduled on April 6, there were also some scattered related reports in the previous few days.

Among them, there are many international leaders. They may do more fields, and they will make a report from a higher perspective. For example, the title of the report is "Recent Research Progress in Various Photovoltaic Fields".

This is only related to the field of organic photovoltaics, but not completely in the field of organic photovoltaics, so it has not been included in the special report on organic photovoltaics.

This kind of report is still useful to a certain extent, and can broaden one's horizons.

As for the reports with a relatively large span in other fields, Xu Qiu intends to select some interested ones to listen to, and does not intend to learn too much about them.

Listening to reports across a wide range of fields is not without significance, but it is not great. Rather than wasting time on reports that are barely understood, it is better to waste time on playing.

Xu Qiu put all the distributed materials into his backpack and went to meet Wu Feifei and Han Jiaying.

He first came to Area W, which is close to Area X, and then he saw that Wu Feifei's expression was not right, and he seemed a little frustrated, so he asked, "Wu Feifei, what's wrong with you?

Wu Feifei sighed lightly: "Don't mention it, I just checked the exhibition brochure. Perovskite is too popular, and there are reports at every time period of the day..."

"In some time periods, there are even more than two reports at the same time..."

"My plan for a five-day trip to Phoenix City is going to be ruined..."

"Beep..."

PS: Ask for a monthly pass at the end of the month, this month's monthly pass should be able to break through 1,000...probably.