Chapter 343 Sloan Research Award
I have to say.
Although Xu Qingshan’s thinking and strength are currently considered by others to be unique among the younger generation at Beijing University.
Although Xu Chenyang, Yun Zhiwei, and Zhang Wei who have gone abroad have made certain achievements in the past two years, the gap between them and Xu Qingshan in terms of popularity inside and outside the industry is not even a bit.
Coupled with Xu Qingshan’s standard local background and his achievements without any overseas education background, the argument that “China can still produce top mathematicians” or “China can still produce top mathematicians” is supported. The best evidence.
This also makes the attention Xu Qingshan receives at home and abroad somewhat special.
In Xu Qingshan’s own words, he was just stuck at the sweet spot where the wind broke out.
But compared to Liu Ruochuan, Xu Qingshan’s accumulation and background in mathematics academics will show a gap. Liu Ruochuan’s family has a mathematics professor, and he has a natural understanding of the development of mathematics academics. It will be broader and more comprehensive than Xu Qingshan.
No matter how strong a person's brain power is, it is difficult to exhaust everything in a short time.
“Actually, I really suggest you learn French. Those French mathematicians are very playful, but their ideas are indeed very romantic. Maybe their actual value is not that high, but they There are often some fantastic ideas, which may seem quite unconventional at times, but if we study them carefully, they can really inspire us.”
Liu Ruochuan spared no effort to recommend his favorite things to Xu Qingshan. Although Xu Qingshan was still chewing pig trotters, he still nodded and agreed.
Now, learning a language is basically not difficult for him.
And the "Elements of Mathematics" Liu Ruochuan gave him did bring some new ideas to Xu Qingshan.
"It's okay. I'm good at French. I can talk to several French girlfriends in Paris. It's basically my best second foreign language. If there's anything you don't know, just ask. I am more than capable of being a French teacher."
Liu Ruochuan looked at Xu Qingshan proudly.
He could enjoy the sense of vanity that his junior brother came to him to ask for help and to teach him.
I am satisfied!
The main focus is first-hand contrast!
The supreme genius, who was cold and ascetic in front of the world, pitifully begged himself to teach him knowledge, oh~ that feeling was so wonderful.
Xu Qingshan curled his lips and directly removed a large leg of pork leg from the roasted suckling pig and put it on his plate.
"It's just learning French, how can it be more difficult than doing P?"
Xu Qingshan said casually.
"It's not easy to speak, and it's not easy to learn French. If you don't know it, be sure to ask me. I'll teach you if I'm here. Hey, why did you eat half of this pig just by talking? What the hell?”
< br> Only then did Liu Ruochuan notice that after just chatting for a while, the roast suckling pig in front of the two tables was missing half a head. He didn't have the time to continue talking, so he put the book aside, put on gloves and started Grab the roasted suckling pig to eat.
Have a midnight snack and then go home.
Jiang Huanxi knew that Xu Qingshan liked to drink some tea to remove the greasy food after eating it, so she boiled water to make him a cup of tea, while Tong Tong went to take a bath first.
Xu Qingshan sat alone at the table and said nothing. He just leaned his back against the back of the chair, tapped his fingers lightly on the table, and looked at the night sky in front of him with a somewhat hollow look.
“What are you thinking about?”
Jiang Huanxi placed the hot tea on Xu Qingshan’s desk and sat aside in his seat to start sorting out the content and materials for today’s class. , although she has no way to graduate early like Xu Qingshan, she also wants to keep herself at the forefront of her profession as much as possible, and takes the special scholarship as her undergraduate goal.
Although her qualifications are good, she needs to work hard to become a unique one in the capital university where geniuses gather.
"I'm thinking about this."
Xu Qingshan raised the "Elements of Mathematics" in his hand.
“Are you learning French?”
Jiang Huanxi asked without understanding.
She felt that this should not be a problem that Xu Qingshan would worry about.
"No, I was thinking that those people like Bourbaki were only in their twenties back then. They were able to get together and use the new structuralism to produce such a mathematical monograph. Can't I do it?"
When Xu Qingshan spoke, his eyes were very deep.
Jiang Huanxi looked at his profile from the side and could see the stars in his eyes.
"How about you give it a try?"
Jiang Huanxi paused and said, in these matters, she supports all Xu Qingshan's decisions.
"If you need help, I will also start learning French with you and prepare these things."
Xu Qingshan placed his right hand on "Mathematics Originals" and shook his head.
“Don’t put so much pressure on yourself. Your task now is to do what you want to do. Completing a systematic and comprehensive mathematical monograph is not a matter of one or two people, or even a generation. Question."
Xu Qingshan said.
He withdrew his gaze, looked at the girl next to him, smiled knowingly, moved the chair back a little, freed up one thigh, patted his thigh gently, and looked towards The girl opened her hands.
Jiang Huanxi's face turned red, she glanced at Xu Qingshan charmingly, picked up her book, stood up and sat on Xu Qingshan's lap.
The girl's slender and soft waist always makes people's hands linger.
Xu Qingshan held his lover in his arms and described the future he imagined to Jiang Huanxi, but it was different from ordinary couples. Perhaps when ordinary couples sit together and talk about the future, they will talk about what kind of house to buy. , what kind of car to buy, how many children to have, what kind of life to live.
Perhaps Qingshan and Jiang Huanxi depend on each other here, but they are talking about how to create a mathematical world with new structures and new ideas.
If there is no common topic between people, they will feel bored even if they say a word.
But if there is, then even if you say a thousand words, it will still be joy from beginning to end.
It was just late at night when the email on Xu Qingshan’s computer showed that a new email had been received. This surprised both Xu Qingshan and Jiang Huanxi, but without any delay, Jiang Huanxi opened it while sitting in Xu Qingshan’s arms. .
Because Xu Qingshan still has some influence now, if you only use one email address, it is easy to miss all kinds of important news.
So several mailboxes were divided, including the mailbox dedicated to the laboratory research team, Xu Qingshan’s official public mailbox, and the communication mailboxes obtained by Xu Qingshan’s friends in the international academic community. , and his personal email address.
Only the latter two will be hung on his computer in real time.
At this point, there is a high probability that it is an email from the other side of the ocean. "It seems to be an email from Mr. Charles. Let me take a look. Well, it is signed by Charles Fefferman."
Jiang Huanxi was relatively close to the computer. She moved the computer away while looking at it. Closer to Xu Qingshan.
When I open the email, there is a big "Congratulations".
"Please help me take a look and see if you have studied English well recently."
Xu Qingshan said with a smile, but the movement of his hands did not change.
"Well, it seems, you won the award?"
Jiang Huanxi looked at the computer, ignoring Xu Qingshan's troubles on her, and said with some surprise, now she directly moved the computer, Hold it in front of Xu Qingshan and let him see for himself.
"Get an award? What award? I haven't participated in any selection yet?"
Xu Qingshan was a little strange. In the middle of the night, an email suddenly came to him telling him that he had won an award?
He looked at the email carefully.
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It turns out that last month, the Sloan Foundation in the United States announced the list of young scholars who won the Sloan Research Award in 2010. A total of 119 scientific researchers.
This award, established in 1955, is used to support and reward scientists who are still in the early stages of their careers and have outstanding talents and super potential. In fact, this foundation has a very good vision.
The Sloan Research Award was awarded to 119 young scientists. It is not just mathematics, but also covers chemistry, molecular biology, computer science, economics, mathematics, neuroscience, and physics.
Each winner will receive a bonus of US$50,000, which can be used to fund follow-up research or support living expenses.
The Sloan Research Award may not be well-known in the eyes of the public, but it is recognized as the benchmark for the Nobel Prize in the industry.
Of course, just have fun.
There is no Nobel Prize for mathematics, nor for computers.
Despite this, since the creation of the Sloan Research Award, 38 recipients of the award have won the Nobel Prize, 57 have received the U.S. National Medal of Science, and 14 recipients have been awarded in mathematics. Won the Fields Medal, and the Sloan Research Prize in Economics, which was only awarded in 1983, has 9 winners of the Clark Medal.
The Clark Medal is like the Fields Medal in the economics community and is recognized as the highest honor for young economists in the industry.
On the list of candidates for the 2010 Sloan Research Award, Xu Qingshan is clearly on the list.
What is even more surprising is that Xu Qingshan won the Mathematics Award and the Computer Science Award at the same time. You know, although Xu Qingshan brought a lot of popularity to computers because of his restlessness that summer, but Judging from the results of real money and silver, his mathematics shoes are not worthy.
The review team of the Coslon Foundation still awarded the Computer Science Award to Xu Qingshan. I don’t know if this is an additional benefit brought by Xu Qingshan’s close contacts with the North American computer science community, or because they I really took a fancy to Xu Qingshan’s excellent talent in the field of computer science.
Xu Qingshan finished reading the email.
The email sent by Charles Fefferman was actually just a blessing. The real purpose was to help people at the Sloan Foundation ask why Xu Qingshan didn’t reply to their email. Was he too busy with work and neglected, or was he not? Willingness to receive this award.
How could Xu Qingshan not accept the award? There were no off-site factors.
He thought about it, and based on the clues that Charles sent him, he found the award notice sandwiched among a bunch of strange emails in his public mailbox.
He replied to the Sloan Foundation via email, stating that he was willing to receive the award, but just wanted to inquire whether he needed to go to the United States to receive the award or whether he could receive it remotely.
Perhaps the foundation staff on the other side of the Pacific have been waiting for a long time. Within a few minutes after Xu Qingshan responded, the other person chatted with him in the email reply.
The Sloan Research Award does not need to be received in person. Xu Qingshan only needs to fill out a form, sign the award letter, and fax it in. The bonus will be directly paid to Xu Qingshan’s overseas account, like this All scholarships for academic research are basically tax-free, whether at home or abroad.
The hunger for technology among world powers is obvious.
However, Xu Qingshan also asked curiously, if he received two awards, could he have two bonuses, reaching the limit of 100,000 US dollars.
Unfortunately, the answer he got was no.
The Sloan Research Award is based on per capita. Even if Xu Qingshan receives all 7 fields by himself, he can only receive US$50,000.
From the staff member's description, Xu Qingshan also learned that there are a total of 10 Chinese people who have won the Sloan Research Award this year, including one who Xu Qingshan mentioned when chatting with Qiu Yong about the semiconductor industry a while ago. Huang Yu, a Chinese female scientist who lived in China.
“I was originally thinking about digging a little bit, but from the looks of it, it seems to be a bit difficult.”
Xu Qingshan murmured.
This female scientist who specializes in nanomaterials has already become famous in the field of materials as early as the beginning of the century, especially in the field of nanomaterials used in energy, communications, computing and other fields. In 2001, about the practical application of nanocircuit , research on low-cost, industrial processing of nanocircuit, was rated as "Major Breakthrough of 2001" by "Science".
This is one of the core technical needs of the new semiconductor industry established by Xu Qingshan and Xinlu Investment.
When discussing the plan a few years ago, Qiu Yong mentioned this outstanding female scientist several times, many of whom expressed the idea of bringing her back to China. Xu Qingshan also thought about being able to take advantage of Qiu Yong. Feng, and reached some industrial-level cooperation with the other party.
But if people get more rewards, their willingness to come back may be much lower.
I will be busy the next day.
Xu Qingshan did not chat with people on the other side of the ocean for too long. Before closing the computer, he directly forwarded the award-winning email sent to him by the Sloan Foundation to Tian Gang, Wang Changping and Mei Hong. I didn't care about it anymore.
But Xu Qingshan just got up the next day, so he got up a little late.
Jiang Huanxi made breakfast for him and went to class first. He came out of the room after breakfast and when he was about to enter the school from the east gate of Beijing University, he saw the familiar big red banner hanging on the campus gate again.
Take a closer look.
Sure enough, the name above is me again.
【Fields Medal Wind Vane! Xu Qingshan, a young scholar from our school, won the 2010 American Sloan Research Award! 】
Xu Qingshan curled his lips.
The old guys moved really fast, just to boost the quality of this propaganda, and they had to talk about it with the Fields Medal.
If you hadn’t looked carefully, would you have thought you had won the Fields Medal?
However
Xu Qingshan suddenly realized that this year is 2010, the Mathematicians Conference will be held this year, and it seems that he really has a chance to win the Fields Medal this year.
It depends on whether the judging panel gives you face or not.
(End of this chapter)