I Just Want to Be a Quiet Top Student

Before the Spring Festival, Shen Qi participated in a high-end annual meeting of the scientific community and had a long chat with other academicians.

The academicians of the Department of Mathematical Physics of the Academy of Sciences were very concerned about the development of the Shen Qi Mathematics Research Center, and Shen Qi also talked about the current situation of the center.

After the talk, Shen Qi concluded that my center is currently in the guerrilla stage, not a regular army yet.

"Shen Qi, you can apply for the State Key Laboratory." Academician Pan, who had entrusted Shen Qi to solve the quantum key problem, said.

"I have such an idea, and I have mentioned it, hasn't the above replied yet?" There are many academicians, divided into different levels such as Ben, Mu, and Niu. Shen Qi is regarded as a Ben-level academician in the eyes of others.

Other Ben-level academicians are in charge of state key laboratories in various fields.

When Shen Qi first returned to China, he had no money, no one, and no scientific research results, so he was naturally embarrassed to mention the State Key Laboratory.

The center has been developing for several years and has grown gradually. Shen Qi put the plan of the center's state key laboratory on the agenda.

The current working mode of the center is that subject projects dominate everything.

For the N-S equation project, Shen Qi came to Weiteng and worked hard with Zhou Yu'an and Xiao Junlong for a year to finish it.

For the mathematics unification project, Shen Qi pulled Li Zhenqiang and his wife together. The project has been established for a year, but there is no specific progress.

For the M Theory project, Shen Qi once again recruited Weiteng, and currently Sha Dongdong and Qu Yang are following up on the approval progress of the project approval report.

The FASTER project team specializes in condensed matter physics, and only this project team is a bit of a regular army.

So Shen Qi said with a smile that his core is a guerrilla.

Now, Shen Qi is going to complete the transition from guerrilla to regular army and set up a national key laboratory.

A state key laboratory managed by a Ben-level academician is basically equivalent to an independent research institute in terms of funding, equipment, and the number and quality of scientific research personnel.

The structure of state key laboratories is usually that the big boss is an academician, and there are several professors at the level of Changjiang Scholars under the big boss, who are small bosses.

Every Cheung Kong Scholars small boss leads a scientific research team, the backbone of which is an associate professor in the prime of life, young and middle-aged professors.

The associate professors and young and middle-aged associate professors in the team set up different research groups according to their professional direction.

The people working in the project research team are postdoctoral, doctoral, and graduate students, which can be understood as part-time workers.

There is a world of difference between scientists and R\u0026D migrant workers. Among Shen Qi and the others, there are only two people who can be called scientists, he and Wei Teng.

The entire Shen Qi Mathematics and Physics Research Center, which currently has the prototype of a state key laboratory, is the FASTER project team.

The ultimate setting of the FASTER project team is the "Shen Qi Mathematical Physics Research Center State Key Laboratory of Condensed Matter Physics", which is Shen Qi's idea.

The team of the FASTER project team has been set up. In the past few years, it has been focusing on the research of condensed matter physics, and has produced several scientific research results and patents.

The upgrade of the FASTER project team is actually the upgrade of scientific research talents.

Shen Qi has a reserve candidate, Tang Yuan.

Tang Yuan has already been rated as an associate professor. He is at a critical stage of his career and is currently undergoing the transition from a senior research migrant worker to a research contractor and a small boss.

Shen Qi summoned Tang Yuan to the director's office alone, and asked, "To what extent has that NMG paper been advanced?"

"The draft is about to be finalized. This time we are very good, so we don't need to submit it. Other journals invite manuscripts." Tang Yuan was designated by Shen Qi as the corresponding author of this paper. The first author is Yang Dingtian, and Shen Qi's name is at the end. .

Foreign journals or research institutions are not very clear about the system of every academic institution in China. When they read a paper, they value the corresponding author first, and then the first author.

The corresponding author is responsible for the overall control of a subject project, and the first author is usually the specific executor of the project.

Shen Qi no longer needs to rely on the signature of the corresponding author and the first author to build his reputation in the world of mathematics and physics. The reason why he signed at the end is for the sake of learning master points, and the second is to hang his name. The article is easier to publish In reputable journals, this benefits the rest of the FASTER project team.

"Tang Yuan, you have a good character, and your academic level is improving steadily. Are you confident to lead the FASTER project team well?" Shen Qi asked.

Tang Yuan nodded and said, "Under Professor Shen's guidance, of course I have confidence."

"I mean, if I'm not in the country for a long time and you lead the team alone, is there any problem?"

"where are you going?"

"That's not the point. The point is the last sentence I just said."

"Should...it's not a big problem." Tang Yuan was shocked, Boss Shen is going to promote me to be the team leader?

Including Shen Qi, the part-time team leader, the FASTER project team has a total of 12 people.

Except for Yang Dingtian, the other 10 team members are all from Yanda Academy of Sciences.

In fact, Yang Dingtian was also from Yanda Academy of Physics, where he studied as an undergraduate and graduate student, and followed Shen Qi for his doctorate.

Tang Yuan was quite familiar with this group of people. There were two researchers chatting in the smoking room before, and they had some opinions on Yang Dingtian, but they had no opinion on Tang Yuan.

Good interpersonal relationship is Tang Yuan's advantage.

Whether Tang Yuan's academic level can reach a new level needs continuous observation.

In any case, Tang Yuan is conscientious and diligent in his academic attitude, Shen Qi decided to give him a chance, or opportunities and challenges coexist: "I plan to establish a State Key Laboratory of Condensed Matter Physics in the center, and the FASTER project team is one of the team members. , and a new condensed matter physics team may be established in the future. There are many research directions in condensed matter physics, and the FASTER project team is under your responsibility, mainly researching the direction of amorphous materials."

Tang Yuan has been in the circle for so many years. He knows the rules of the game. Director Shen wants to promote himself to be the small boss of the State Key Laboratory.

The small bosses who lead the team are basically Changjiang scholars, or they are talented people invited back from abroad. These people are academician reserves, always ready to rise to the next level and be promoted to real bosses.

"Thank you Director Shen, I will do my best!" Tang Yuan was still under pressure and motivated.

What Shen Qi said is very clear. In the future, a competition mechanism will be introduced in the center, and more than one condensed matter physics team will simultaneously promote research on related topics.

In order to build the State Key Laboratory of Condensed Matter Physics of the Shen Qi Mathematics Research Center, Shen Qi must recruit some elites from outside, so as to realize the upgrading of talents.

Once this national key laboratory is approved, the funding will be implemented according to the new standards, and Shen Qi and the others will be able to do some more significant things.

In addition to letters from fans, Shen Qi would occasionally receive manuscripts of academic papers from journals, inviting Shen Qi to be a reviewer.

Ordinary journals are also embarrassed to ask Shen Qi to be a reviewer. Those who look for him are all internationally renowned academic journals, including mathematics journals and physics journals.

The job of reviewing manuscripts is unpaid, and the reviewers do this job entirely with a sincere academic enthusiasm.

Of course, most of the top authorities share this enthusiasm, and they will review other people's manuscripts when time permits.

Shen Qi had two manuscripts in front of him, one from the Annals of Mathematics sponsored by Princeton, and the other from PRL sponsored by the American Physical Society.

Shen Qi reviewed the mathematics manuscript first, which is a thesis manuscript in the direction of number theory.

In recent decades, Fermat's last theorem has been solved, Riemann's conjecture has been solved, and Ge Guess has been solved.

There is only one problem left in the field of number theory, the BSD conjecture.

Many theorists have tried to transform into other fields and cross-border. Today, mathematicians who still insist on the super-hard field of analytic number theory are as precious as treasures.

The name of the corresponding author of this number theory paper is Salim-Ohayon, and the mailing address is MIT.

This is a single-blind review operation. Shen Qi knows the basic information of the author of the manuscript, but the author does not know who the reviewer is.

Looking at the name, Shen Qi felt that the corresponding author of MIT should be an Arab, or Arab.

This paper is about analytic number theory, and it is written very hard. It really tests the hard analysis ability of the reviewers.

It is not uncommon for reviewers to fail to understand the manuscript. Fortunately, this number theory paper was handed over to Shen Qi, and he began to review it with interest.