Chapter 833 A defense that will go down in history (Part 1)
"Dr. Xu."
After arriving outside the conference hall, Zhai Xiaonan stopped:
"This room is where your master's defense will be held. Several judges are in the room, so I won't accompany you in."
Say it.
Zhai Xiaonan glanced at Xu Yun curiously.
In the past period of time, Xu Yun has been a well-known figure in the Institute of High Energy or the Academy of Sciences. Everyone has often talked about him after dinner.
The first is Xu Yun’s degree studies.
Although there is no shortage of all kinds of monsters with double degrees or even more degrees in the Institute of High Energy, under normal circumstances, the study directions of multi-degree are usually relatively related majors.
Such as economics and econometrics, nuclear physics and mathematics, etc.
But Xu Yun's majors are condensed matter physics and life sciences. Although they are both science subjects, there are obvious professional barriers between them.
Under such circumstances, if you want to graduate smoothly, you will definitely not be able to do it without some skills.
And the way most people get a double degree is to get the previous diploma and then study in the next one, or they use a little trick to get a Sino-foreign cooperative education program - because due to the student status file, there are no restrictions on studying two programs at the same time in China. The limit for a graduate degree is very high, many times more than an undergraduate double major.
To break through this limitation, first of all, the school's ranking must be quite high, and secondly, the applicant's performance level must be extremely strong. In the terms of the novel, it is like a rare existence.
At the same time, in addition to his academic qualifications, Xu Yun’s previous social media conferences, business achievements, and dark matter conferences were also quite dramatic.
People who work in the academy are also human beings, so it is normal for everyone to have discussions about Xu Yun.
However, Xu Yun did not notice Zhai Xiaonan's curious eyes. At this moment, all his attention was focused on the conference room in front of him.
Unconsciously, Xu Yun's left hand had been clenched into a fist.
The day has finally come.
Due to various reasons, Xu Yun's current physical achievements on the surface are far lower than his actual contributions.
For example, the gravity gradient meter he tinkered with is now a top secret in the country. It is a big killer move that can affect the international situation, and it will definitely not be announced to the public in a short time.
The credit for the isolated point particle was pushed by Xu Yun to Academician Pan and Zhao Zhengguo - this was also done by Xu Yun on his own initiative.
After all, with the aura surrounding him, discoveries such as isolated point particles are destined to not be isolated cases. Xu Yun will have many opportunities to win the Nobel Prize repeatedly in the future.
But for Academician Pan and Academician Zhao Zhengguo, this may be their only chance in this life.
Academician Pan and Zhao Zhengguo had helped Xu Yun a lot, and there was a lifelong bond between them. Moreover, without their help, Xu Yun would not have paid attention to the characteristics of the dark matter effect of solitary point particles.
So as of now.
Xu Yun's achievements in physics are limited to the results calculated jointly with Zhou Shaoping and Yang Lao at the dark matter press conference.
On the contrary, in biology and mathematics, Xu Yun is even more famous - the fifth generation imidacloprid has been published in "NUCLEICA CIDSRES", and the derivation of Mersenne primes has solved a major controversy in the mathematics community.
But after today, many things may be different.
Xu Yun will truly appear on the stage of human science history - as a physicist.
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About ten seconds passed.
Xu Yun took a deep breath and said to Zhai Xiaonan:
"Assistant Zhai, I will go in first and treat you to dinner if you have time."
Zhai Xiaonan smiled and nodded:
"Come on."
Xu Yun then walked straight to the door of the conference room and turned the doorknob without hesitation.
This conference room was newly renovated by the Institute of High Energy last year. There was no sound when the door was opened. Xu Yun only felt the handle push forward smoothly, and he could see the whole room clearly before his eyes:
This is a multifunctional conference room with an area of about 150 square meters. The interior adopts a ladder layout that is not very high. At the front is a white metal tabletop. The whole is simple and capable.
At this moment.
There were six men sitting in the conference room, one of whom was sitting in the relatively right area, and the remaining five people were sitting in the center of the first row.
The man on the right is Xu Yun's mentor, Pan Jianwei and Pan Shuai, and the remaining five people are also familiar to Xu Yun.
The one on the far left among the five people is a middle-aged man with thick hair and slanted bangs. He looks like he is in his early fifties and has an elegant temperament all over his body.
If they meet each other on the road, many people may think that he is engaged in the literary and art industry.
Although Xu Yun had never met the other person, he had known him for a long time and recognized the person's identity at a glance:
Academician Xue Qikun, who just won the Buckley Prize not long ago, is now one of the Chinese physicists most likely to win the Nobel Prize.
Next to Xue Qikun sat a round-faced man with a generous face and gray temples.
Xu Yun also met this old man for the first time in reality, but he had dealt with him a lot in the two bombs and one star dungeon not long ago - this little old man is one of the few two people who are still alive today. One-star meritorious service, Zhou Guangzhao, academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.
In addition to Xue Qikun and Zhou Guangzhao, the other three people present were also Xu Yun’s old acquaintances:
Sitting in the middle is Yang Zhenning, and beside Yang Zhenning are Wang Xiji and Zhou Shaoping.
Perhaps because they had been sitting for a long time, the faces of the three elders, Yang Lao, Wang Lao and Zhou Guangzhao, who were nearly 100 or over 100, all had a bit of fatigue on their faces. When Xu Yun entered the room, they closed their eyes to rest, and they were still watching the people around them. After being reminded, I opened my eyes.
Seeing this, Xu Yun quickly walked to the stage and bowed to Mr. Yang and others:
"Hello, seniors."
Xu Yun used the word "senior" instead of "judge" in this sentence. It is obvious that this is out of personal gratitude rather than a formulaic defense greeting.
To know.
These big bosses have either retired to the second line to take care of themselves, or they are busy people who have a lot of affairs or meetings to attend every day.
If they could gather here to participate in the graduation defense of a small master's degree, no one would be able to calm down.
Looking at Xu Yun with a frank expression, the faces of several big guys in the audience also showed a little softness, and they all nodded to Xu Yun as a greeting.
Then Mr. Yang coughed lightly, turned to Academician Pan and said:
"Academician Pan, since the respondent has arrived, let's start the defense."
Mr. Yang did not call Xiao Pan or Xiao Xu directly. After all, he still had to avoid suspicion in this situation.
Academician Pan obviously understood this. After hearing this, he calmly said yes, walked to the back of the classroom, and turned on a set of camera equipment.
As Xu Yun's tutor, Academician Pan is not qualified to join the review committee, nor is he obligated to answer questions for students. However, he can introduce the student's situation to the defense committee before and after the defense - of course, this is not a hard and fast rule.
For example, during the epidemic period, many colleges and universities conducted online defenses and required instructors to exit the meeting after the defense began, leaving the entire process to the moderator and review committee members.
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After turning on the camera equipment, Academician Pan also walked to the stage, holding a small microphone and said:
"Good morning, fellow reviewers. This is the master's defense of the Department of Modern Physics, School of Physics, Huaxia University of Science and Technology. I am Pan Jianwei, the instructor of the respondent Xu Yun."
“The respondent Xu Yun had a diligent study attitude during school, outstanding grades, and a decent style. While he has an innocent body, he also has an innocent heart.”
"After the internal assessment of the department and based on the legal basis of Articles 17, 18 and 20 of the "Degree Regulations of the People's Republic of China", Xu Yun is now allowed to conduct his graduation defense."
"If the defense is passed, the respondent will be awarded a master's degree and allowed to start the next stage of training"
"Xu Yun himself will give a content statement for this defense. It is recommended that the defense time should not exceed three hours. The entire defense process will be recorded with images and text minutes. After the end, the images will be uploaded to the Archives Office of the Ministry of Education and the University of Science and Technology of China. The text content will be backed up in "Going". "Unscientific" Chapter 832."
Academician Pan introduced the defense rules eloquently, and Xu Yun acted as a cute.JPG emoticon by the side during the whole process.
Five minutes later.
After Academician Pan finished introducing the content, he paused and said to Xu Yun:
"Respondent, please submit your graduation thesis to the defense committee."
Students who have participated in the defense should know this.
Before the formal defense, the respondent's paper usually goes through several rounds of review.
For example, proof review, external review and blind review.
Among them, the school review is usually conducted within the school, usually by the teachers of the college to which it belongs. There are corresponding requirements. As long as you blow up the cesspool while the teacher is using the toilet, you can basically pass.
External review and blind review are conducted by third-party units. External review is usually followed by a tutor, that is, your paper is sent to a tutor from an external school for review.
Blind review is much stricter. This is a review hosted by the Ministry of Education. You don’t know who your paper will be sent to, and the reviewers don’t know whose paper they are reviewing.
In other words.
In most cases, the content of the defense paper has been made public before the defense, and whether the reviewers know the content depends entirely on whether they want to know it first.
But Xu Yun was different this time.
Except for Academician Pan and Lu Chaoyang, no one knew the content of Xu Yun's paper in advance.
This is actually a bit unconventional. If nothing else, the external review step is a step that 99% of master's defenses must take.
But there is no way, who makes Xu Yun’s status in the Academy of Sciences unusual?
Then under the instructions of Academician Pan.
Xu Yun handed the prepared paper to Academician Pan, who sent it to the reviewers. Xu Yun himself went to the podium to debug the USB flash drive.
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Looking at the paper handed over by Academician Pan, Academician Xue Qikun first felt the thickness with his fingers and nodded slightly.
The standard requirement for a master's thesis is that it starts with 30,000 words, which is about 30 pages. In practice, it is about 60-90 pages.
A doctoral thesis is usually between 150-200 pages. If there are many figures and tables, it is normal to expand to 300 pages - in most cases, liberal arts subjects will have more pages than science subjects.
By the way.
The longest doctoral thesis in academia was written by historian Joachim Schumacher. He produced a 2,654-page thesis during his defense at the University of Konstanz
The paper Xu Yun prepared this time is about 600 pages long. Regardless of the quality of the content, at least the attitude is relatively correct.
Xue Qikun is very clear about the expectations of the academy leaders for Xu Yun. If Xu Yun only produces a stack of 60-page papers, then Xue Qikun will definitely blacklist Xu Yun immediately - the number of pages of science papers actually reflects the difficulty of the topic. , what quality can a question that can be answered in 60 pages have?
Then Xue Qikun adjusted his glasses and read the title of the paper.
""Discussion on the mechanism of high-temperature superconductivity"."
"Gah??!!" Note:
Some students guessed room-temperature superconductivity before. Why didn’t they expand their thinking and think of high-temperature superconductivity? What a pity
I have successfully landed in Shenzhen today. I will go to Southern University of Science and Technology tomorrow. I should have the opportunity to meet Academician Xue Qikun offline
(End of chapter)