Chapter 304 The Incompatible Face
At 9 o'clock in the morning, the 2015 Mathematics Annual Meeting officially started. The lecture hall was packed with people. The meeting did not require formal attire to attend, so many people, like Xu Qingzhou, wore casual clothes.
Even for this kind of national meeting, the process is similar to the sports meeting held by the school. Various leaders give speeches, pay welcome speeches, affirm the academic achievements of Xia Guo scholars this year, and then look forward to the future.
More distinctively, Shigefumi Mori, chairman of the International Mathematical Union and winner of the Fields Medal, came to congratulate him.
At 10 a.m., the three major mathematics awards that everyone is most concerned about were officially announced.
Hosting the award ceremony was Cai Xinyuan, Chairman of the Mathematics Society.
"In the past two years, Xia Guo's mathematics community has made extraordinary achievements."
"Congratulations to Lin Feiqun, academician of the Xiaguo Academy of Sciences, for winning the 12th Hua Luogeng Mathematics Award."
Two middle-aged men with slightly thinning hair came on stage, took the certificates and medals from Cai Xinyuan and deputy director Professor Qin Yizhen, and then delivered their acceptance speeches.
Xu Qingzhou applauded.
The Hua Luogeng Mathematics Award aims to reward senior mathematicians with outstanding academic achievements and social contributions.
This old academician has been engaged in nonlinear optimization algorithms and theoretical research for a long time. He deserves this award, and since the word "senior" is involved, he is definitely hopeless.
Regarding the latter two, Xu Qingzhou thinks it is more likely to be the Chung Jiaqing Mathematics Award. For graduate students, the Chen Shengshen Mathematics Award is also possible. After all, it is awarded to outstanding young mathematicians.
19 years old is considered a youth, right?
The process was quick to get to the Chern Mathematics Prize.
Cai Xinyuan spoke:
"This winner is very special. He has created miracles in the field of number theory in two years. The results of his research are a landmark contribution to the study of prime numbers. There is no doubt that his name will be recorded in the history of great mathematics."
Before he read his name, everyone's eyes were already looking in the direction of Xu Qingzhou.
No way, this young face looks out of place among a group of old people.
Xu Qingzhou sat calmly.
Everyone's eyes were very complicated, including emotion, admiration, exclamation, jealousy and hostility.
However, I was not surprised that Xu Qingzhou won the award.
This type of award is different from literary awards. Even if the jury does not announce the winner, everyone can guess it.
Reading literary works, a thousand people can have a thousand Hamlets.
When it comes to academic research, there is only one truth, and there is no such thing as different opinions.
His photo and profile appeared on the big screen.
"Let us congratulate Xu Qingzhou, a young scholar from the National Ten Thousand Talents Program, for winning the 15th Chen Shengshen Mathematics Award!"
There was warm applause in the lecture hall.
Xu Qingzhou walked onto the stage. Cai Xinyuan and Tan Yizhen smiled softly and looked at the young man with emotion in their eyes.
"Congratulations, young man."
"Thank you."
After receiving the certificate and medal, Xu Qingzhou began to give a brief acceptance speech.
"Dear judging committee, representatives of Mr. Chen Shengshen's family, colleagues, friends, and friends who follow this award ceremony through various means."
"Tonight, standing here, holding the heavy honor of the Chern Chern Mathematics Prize, I am extremely excited and at the same time deeply humbled."
"Mathematics is an ancient and eternal subject."
In the audience, Gu Zhizhong smiled and nodded slightly, saying that Xia Guo's mathematics has a promising future. The phenomenon of seniority in Xia Guo's academic circles has always existed. In addition to outstanding ability, one also has to go through seniority. In recent years, many young mathematicians have indeed emerged in Xia State. Fu Yun, a student of Lao Zhong of the Academy of Sciences, completely solved the symplectic elimination problem of nilpotent orbital closure and characterized its birational geometry.
There is also Lei Shanming, who proposed the concept of "strong zero condition" and discovered the nonlinear inherent strong degenerate structure of the incompressible fluid equations.
There is also a student of that old guy Pang Handong from Fuda, let’s call him Yu Yankun, who single-handedly solved the long-term open problem of the global well-posedness of the solution to the two-dimensional elastic mechanics equations.
The achievements of these three young people are not low, and they are all professors at major prestigious universities. If Xu Qingzhou had not appeared, the Chen Shengshen Mathematics Award would definitely have been two of them.
It's a pity that with this kid's achievements, the Fields Medal is not a problem. We can also look forward to the Wolf Prize in Mathematics in January next year.
Academician Chu also had a smile on his face. Like Gu Zhizhong, at their age, they had already earned what they deserved. Seeing their students show their faces made them happier than standing on the stage themselves.
Xu Qingzhou spoke eloquently for three minutes, bowed gently to express his gratitude, and walked off the stage calmly.
After the Chung Jiaqing Awards were handed out, the opening ceremony was over.
"Congratulations, Xiao Xu." Gu Zhizhong and Chu Jiangfeng both came over.
"Thank you Professor Gu, thank you Professor Chu."
Xu Qingzhou smiled modestly.
Chu Jiangfeng shook his head and said with a smile: "No need to thank us, it's all the result of your own efforts."
"When you first came on stage, I was worried that you were nervous. Yes, you are unfazed by favors and humiliations. This is the mentality that young people should have."
Gu Zhizhong nodded.
Xu Qingzhou thought that he might be nervous otherwise, but he was very skilled at receiving awards.
He just said these words in his heart. He pointed at an old man in the crowd and asked curiously: "Who is that?"
When he was speaking on the stage, he felt that the old man was quite hostile to him.
That look made him want to eat him up.
Gu Zhizhong took one look and said disdainfully: "That old guy. The grown-up Pang Handong."
He and Xu Qingzhou have said many times that academic people should sit back and concentrate on academics. This old guy is very old and still misses the little power he has.
"Professor Qin just said that there are two places for the Chen Shengshen Mathematics Prize in each session. This old guy's students are one of the candidates, and they have a high chance of being selected." Gu Zhizhong continued.
Academician Chu said: "Your appearance directly broke the balance of the original three candidates. No, after much deliberation, the judging panel simply chose only one person."
Xu Qingzhou nodded, understanding the hostility.
Pang Handong.
He seemed somewhat impressed.
When we were gossiping in the dormitory before, we heard that Gu Zhizhong once publicly ridiculed Pang Handong in a mathematics competition for not engaging in academics and engaging in office politics.
Chu Jiangfeng smiled and said: "Don't worry, as long as Lao Gu and I are here, Pang Handong won't be able to make any big waves."
Xu Qingzhou nodded and thanked him again.
After greeting the professors and scholars who congratulated him one by one, and after dealing with the reporters blocking the door of the hall, Xu Qingzhou went directly to the arranged hotel for retreat.
In the afternoon, Lin Feiqun, winner of the Hua Luogeng Award, gave a report on trust region method algorithm design and convergence analysis.
In addition to large invited lectures, there will be group lectures in seven fields such as algebra and number theory, computational mathematics, analytical mathematics, probability and statistics.
Xu Qingzhou planned to listen selectively, such as geometry and topology.
Zhang Yitang proved that there are countless pairs of adjacent prime numbers, and the interval does not exceed 70 million. The entire proof process used analytic number theory and arithmetic geometry.
(End of chapter)