Chapter 264 Academic Capitalist
The work Xu Qingshan assigned to Xue Xuequing and Wang Wei was not only to help him complete the conjecture on the sensitivity of the Boolean function, but also to actually apply the sensitivity of the Boolean function to project experiments. Among them, Xue Xuequing, who has some engineering background, took over the parts related to the circuit design algorithm model, while Wang Wei focused more on the logic part of pure numerical algorithms.
Although these two girls have some distinctive personalities, they are indeed practical and useful horses.
The main thing is.
The cows still know how to hide in the hayloft to rest, and the horses know how to go back to the stables to sleep. However, these two cows and horses get up early and come home late every day to soak in the department. This is called a diligent, studious, and passionate researcher.
Although Xu Qingshan was also driven by their emotional atmosphere and pushed in the opposite direction for a while.
But it is undeniable that he did save a lot of basic and advanced work.
He can free up his hands to concentrate on the most sophisticated problems.
"Xiaoxi, come with me for a walk."
"You two can look at the information and compile two papers based on the mathematical problems of Boolean functions. Then we will publish statistics Journal of Probability ”
Xu Qingshan stood up and packed the things on the table.
“Remember to cite this manuscript of mine in the core proof. When the time comes, I will contact you. Remember to detail the unit to the department. When the time comes, you will have a common one for Xiaoxi. You can arrange the rest by yourself.”< br>
“Long live the teacher!”
Xu Qingshan made a simple arrangement, and Xue Xuequing excitedly waved her arms high.
Xu Qingshan shook his head.
He walked out of the department with data files and information on algorithm model ideas.
"Qingshan, is this okay? If the papers are written by two seniors, I will put my name on it."
Jiang Huanxi was a little tangled, tugging at Xu Qingshan's clothes with an awkward expression.
The two of them walked out of the Institute of Mathematics together.
"Believe it or not, go ask Xiao Xue and Xiao Wang, they are very happy? Did you hear Xiao Xue just shouting long live?"
Xu Qingshan said with a smile.
After walking out of this small building with an off-white exterior wall, I looked back at this small building. It looked extremely peaceful in the shade of the tall trees, as if there were no traces in the gauze tent. A beautiful woman with a fragrance that makes people intoxicated and obsessed, and can't wait to go in and take a look.
“Why?”
Jiang Huanxi was puzzled.
In her opinion, whoever writes the paper should be signed.
After all, she has not really been exposed to the academic circle and does not know the ins and outs of it.
“Because if they go to other tutors, they may not get the signatures of the previous papers.”
Xu Qingshan said, holding Jiang Huanxi’s hand and walking On the campus of Beijing University.
The campus atmosphere of Peking University is much more romantic than that of Huaqing University next door.
At least the male to female ratio is much better looking.
At Beijing University, you can see couples walking hand in hand on campus if you go around.
In Huaqing, you can see a bunch of men stuck together without even walking around.
Xu Qingshan squeezed Jiang Huanxi's little hand and explained the current status of the academic circle to Jiang Huanxi.
“In fact, in the scientific research output of many laboratories, the real work is done by young green pepper bosses and doctoral students. If a doctorate can be regarded as a scientific research worker, then a master’s degree is a scientific researcher. "
Xu Qingshan said, Jiang Huanxi listened carefully.
She still rarely comes into contact with these.
“Like a large laboratory that has a core project, this project can produce many papers. The most core and most instructive paper is naturally the big boss who will grasp the direction, led by Qingjiao If it is possible to extend the various branches of the project, then the team can be divided and let the PhD and master's students do it themselves. The last thing is the distribution of thesis signatures. "
Xu Qingshan drew a few strokes. , allowing Jiang Huanxi to roughly understand the basic framework of the academic model.
This is not only true in China, but also all over the world.
“There are two situations in the distribution of signatures of papers.”
"The first type is people like me. It doesn't matter how important one or two articles are. Because I don't have the pressure of assessment myself, and the promotion target has been exceeded. I can give more points to the students in my hand, and they will be more motivated. . ”
“The other type is those teachers who still have a promotion-or-leave employment contract, or who are under the age of 45 and still want to evaluate various project funds, such as outstanding youth and so on. Teachers, many of them will write all the papers that are a little valuable in order to improve their own paper quotas, or even work independently, and the students will not even have the opportunity to sign their names."
"But these. The student had nothing to say.”
“Why?”
Jiang Huanxi actually had some answers, but she still asked the question.
"Because the tutor has so much power, he can decide on his own whether you can graduate, whether at home or abroad."
Xu Qingshan said with squinted eyes.
It was still too cold outside. Even though he and Jiang Huanxi were wrapped tightly and wore earmuffs to keep warm, the cold wind still hurt their faces.
“Many of the students in the latter research group had to be delayed for one or two years, and finally they were relieved to barely graduate.”
“Oh.”
The girl's sigh turned into a streak of white air in the air, dispersed in the cold wind.
Xu Qingshan looked at the girl beside him with a low eyebrow, let go of her hand, and let her hand continue to be covered in his pocket, while he reached out his hand and gently rubbed her head. .
"It's okay, as long as I'm here, you won't encounter this kind of situation."
"I was thinking about others."
Jiang Huanxi raised his head and looked at Looking at Xu Qingshan, his smile was slightly forced.
"I feel relieved to have you here, but when I think about so many people suffering like this, I don't know why I can't be happy."
"You."
Xu Qingshan smiled and rubbed her head again, then put his hands in his pockets.
The hand that had become very cold after being left outside for a while covered the girl's warm catkins, but she did not make any movement. Instead, she held her own with her backhand, interlocking her fingers, as if she wanted to Try your best to spread the warmth to yourself.
“We will do it in the future.”
Xu Qingshan said softly.
“Go and change it.”
“Let’s go and finish the project first.”
“Well!”
The two of them walked halfway At that time, there was snow like crumbs in the sky again.
Not big.
Just enough to make snowflakes fall on people’s heads.
If you look at it from a distance, it looks like two couples with gray hair walking on the school road.
The road was slippery in the snow, and it took them almost half an hour to walk on a ten-minute walk in the summer.
I entered the laboratory prepared for Professor Davis and his team at the Information Technology Center. It looked much more advanced than the Institute of Mathematics, and it also had electronically controlled doors.
"Xu! Jiang! You are here!"
Olivia was wearing a mask, and even though her voice sounded a little weak, she still shouted at the top of her lungs, and immediately came over to greet them.
Jiang Huanxi asked seriously.
"Miss Olivia, do you have a cold?"
"Well, I thought it wouldn't be colder here than in Toronto, so I wore less clothes, but I ended up catching a cold. "
Olivia sniffed and spoke in a low voice.
“Where is Professor Davis?”
Xu Qingshan raised the folder and USB flash drive in his hand.
“The key node has been completed, and now it depends on the strength of your team.”
“I’m reading your paper, don’t worry, our team is no worse than Cameron’s guys. .”
Olivia felt a little proud, raised her head and chest, but coughed again.
"Sorry, I'm going to drink water first. The teacher is in the third office. You will know if you go there. The door is not closed."
Olivia left in a hurry, Xu Qingshan took him with her Jiang Huanxi walked towards Davis.
When he arrived at the door of the office, Xu Qingshan saw Professor Davis sitting at his desk doing calculations, deriving something while reading a paper.
After not seeing each other for a few days, he always felt that Professor Davis's hairline seemed to have risen a lot.
"Oh! Xu!"
Before Xu Qingshan could speak first, Davis felt someone at the door.
"You are such a genius! You are my Donald Knuth!"
Davis was not stingy with his compliments.
Xu Qingshan shrugged.
"I don't think Professor Knuth's mathematics is better than mine."
The confidence in his tone was so convincing that even Professor Davis was stunned for a moment before bursting into laughter. .
"Of course, I also think you should win the Fields Medal earlier than the Turing Award."
Jiang Huanxi blinked aside.
She understood the English, but she didn’t quite understand what they were talking about.
“Donald Knuth, winner of the Turing Award, is the developer of TeX, the basic macro language of LaTeX that we usually use to write papers. LaTeX is a macro package of TeX. You can set it as a shortcut key. That’s good.”
Xu Qingshan turned around and explained to Jiang Huanxi thoughtfully.
"Xu, you forgot to add that what Professor Knuth is most praised for is the beauty he created for computers and computational science. He is the Venus in the field of computers."
From the intoxicated expression on Professor Davis's face, we can see his admiration for Donald Knuth. Of course, we can also see his admiration for Xu Qingshan from this.
Jiang Huanxi understood the logic and her smiling eyes were very beautiful.
"Okay, let's not talk about these other things for now. Professor Davis, let's take a look at this first. I don't know what stage your experiment is at, but I'm almost there."
Xu Qingshan smiled He handed the information in his hand to Davis.
“You take a look at it on site and give us feedback on any missing parts, and we will make some finishing touches.”
“OK.”
Davis put it on hold for the time being and continued. Looking at the arrangement of the paper, I first looked through the printed materials.
Xu Qingshan glanced at the paper on the computer.
As expected, it was the paper on the sensitivity conjecture of Boolean functions that I posted on arXiv.
“Xu.”
Davis suddenly said while looking at the information.
“Huh?”
Xu Qingshan paused.
“I think when they came up with the concrete complexity theory, they never thought that it would be solved so soon.”
“Last time my friend, well, he was Quanta The editor-in-chief of the magazine was still telling me during a private gathering that Scott Arronsa from the University of Texas at Austin complained when he sent them an email, saying that this was combinatorial theory and theoretical computer science. One of the most frustrating and embarrassing problems in the world, he later said in his blog that the scholars who tried to solve it and failed are the hall of fame of discrete mathematics and theoretical computer science. "Is it such an exaggeration?"
Xu Qingshan knew what Davis meant.
It’s just that everyone has already proved the twin prime conjecture, so there is no need to make a fuss over a conjecture.
"Of course."
Davis raised his head and adjusted his glasses.
“If you don’t believe it, wait until your paper is published and see what scholars in the computer field say about you.”
“To be honest, maybe , do you really not think about sprinting for the Turing Award? I think we can continue to do more and deeper problems together.”
Professor Davis is eager to try and gear up.
“There are many issues that I didn’t dare to consider on my own before, but now that you are here, I feel terrifyingly strong!”
“Davis, let’s deal with it first. I hope the circuit design theoretical model produced by your final project is reliable."
Xu Qingshan avoided talking.
"Okay."
Davis wasn't sad either.
This was the answer he had expected.
But, it doesn’t matter, he will stay at Beijing University anyway. If Xu Qingshan stays at Beijing University in the future, then he does not recommend cooperating with Xu Qingshan every day.
“I took a rough look at the overall framework, and there is no problem.”
Davis received the information and smiled heartily at Xu Qingshan.
"Don't worry, I will make the project complete successfully. If I don't let you go, Professor Potucha next door will come to my door tonight to have a duel between gentlemen with me."
" Then, happy cooperation."
Xu Qingshan stretched out his hand towards Davis.
“Very pleasant.”
Davis smiled brightly.
In addition to Professor Davis’ team that has settled in the Information Technology Center of Beijing University, two other teams have also arrived in Beijing University and successfully settled in.
Many graduate students and undergraduate students from the Institute of Information Science and Technology have had the opportunity to communicate with world-class first-class teams in computer and related fields.
Xu Qingshan’s research team also obtained many node projects and derivatives from these three teams.
After Xu Qingshan tested and trained Guo Xueqing and Wang Wei in a short period of time, he left relevant mathematical problems to them to study, and he was only responsible for the most difficult parts to break through.
Xu Qingshan doesn’t have to worry too much about the rest of the computer problems. Mei Hong has been eagerly waiting for his guidance.
It's just that Xu Qingshan's temporary position and work at the Information Technology Center are not as fixed as at the Institute of Mathematics.
He is more like a top consultant. He comes here and looks at that. If there is a problem, he will solve it. If there is no problem, he will give guidance.
But no matter what.
No one will lose his share of all the project results.
Even if it was partial results of some projects, Xu Qingshan never said a word from beginning to end.
This feeling
“Ah~ is this what it feels like to be an academic capitalist?”
Xu Qingshan was lying on the bed, with his hands and feet in a "big" shape. Stretching out on the bed, Jiang Huanxi sat beside the bed and helped him sort out the high pile of certification documents and fund applications on the table.
"Qingshan, did you get the results of other professors for several years in just half a year?"
Jiang Huanxi asked curiously.
Tomorrow, the two of them will go to Princeton to attend the high-profile small academic conference. As a result, Xu Qingshan has been going home to get various certification materials, fund application forms, project documents and other things in the past few days.
Xu Qingshan was too lazy to clean up, so she helped clean up and fill in the basic information.
It turns out that the key projects recently launched by the Information Technology Center all have important contributions and high participation by Xu Qingshan, at least that is what is written in the certificate and application.
“Less.”
Xu Qingshan leaned on the pillow, enjoying the warm and soft quilt, and replied with squinting eyes.
"Isn't it enough? Which year?"
"No, I mean, you said that other professors have fewer years. If all my projects are promoted normally and completed In addition to the topics assigned to Xiao Guo and Xiao Wang when we come back, if other professors are more ordinary, their achievements in ten years may not be as much as mine.”
At the Institute of Mathematics. The efficiency of producing papers is amazingly fast.
Use an inappropriate metaphor.
If the speed at which Xu Qingshan and his Qingshan research group produced papers were shown to netizens at this time, the reputation among netizens would definitely be polarized.
Either I think Xu Qingshan is really awesome, or I think Xu Qingshan is just messing up his thesis.
Who can produce one major conjecture-level and two SCI-level papers within a month of forming a team?
Although the latter two papers are applications and branches derived from the former, this is enough to prove the strength of Xu Qingshan's research group.
And!
About the issue of signature.
People outside the circle may not feel it at all.
But people in the circle, at least the graduate students at Peking University, whether they are from the School of Mathematics or the School of Information Science and Technology, are starting to get restless.
The newly created research group, Qingshan Research Group, instantly became the number one topic in the graduate student circle.
When Xu Qingshan and Jiang Huanxi were eating in the cafeteria yesterday, they heard a few graduate students from the School of Mathematics who looked very old talking about their research groups.
“Sigh, I don’t know if we can find some way to transfer to Xu Shen’s research group.”
"Just think about it, it's not like you don't know Guo Xuequing and Wang Wei. You were the first or second best in your major when you were an undergraduate. At that time, you could publish papers, and when you graduated, you got a first-class scholarship and an excellent diploma. You don't really think that we Xu Shen will be willing to take these ordinary things, right?"
"But why did the two of them study for a master's degree at that time, instead of directly studying for a doctorate?"
"Nonsense, we are just counting? If you don’t graduate with a direct Ph.D., you will only have a bachelor’s degree. You should study for a master’s degree first. If you want to get a Ph.D. and change to something else, isn’t it okay to go to finance and do business analysis?”
“Don’t think about that? More, let’s pay homage to Xu Shen Tianwei. I bet you that Xu Shen will definitely win the prize next year.”
Xu Qingshan was eating chicken legs at that time, and he almost choked when he heard those words.
Are the two abstract calves in your department so strong?
“But he is only 18, right?”
“Next year he will be 19.”
“What is the difference between 18 and 19? I guess Xu Shen is the only one in the world who can do this at such a young age. Collecting awards everywhere.”
“If you ask me, it’s still a bit disappointing.”
There is a possibility of opposition voices among young people.
"What do you mean, if you can do it, you can do it?"
"No, I'm just doing a rational analysis, why are you in a hurry? Let me tell you, Xu Shen's twin prime conjecture is average. Although the formal proof is indeed good, it is not a complete proof after all. There is no problem in winning some awards, but if you want to beat Fields, there are still many opponents, and they are not completely overwhelming."
“What about the Boolean function sensitivity conjecture this time?”
“This is something in the computer field. To say the least, even if it basically relies on mathematical ability, the final application The direction and theoretical concepts are all related to computers. Do you think you can win the Turing Award with this thing?”
“It’s not enough according to the bosses of the Academy of Sciences.”
"Isn't that right?"
Xu Qingshan chewed slowly and listened very carefully.
To calm down, he would have finished his meal long ago.
He was very curious about what this understanding brother thought of him. He had a pretty good attitude.
"So, if you ask me to say, Xu Shen is really awesome for us students, but we really need to put him among the top true gods in the world's academic circles. If nothing else, I will say One sentence."
"What?"
"It takes time to verify."
"Hey, what nonsense. If Xu Shen proves the twin prime conjecture tomorrow, or finds another difficult problem in the field of number theory to prove it, then I think Xu Shen is a real god, at least in the field of number theory, I believe it!"
"Forget it, how is that possible? Let's eat."
Xu Qingshan looked at Jiang Huanxi who was sitting next to him with his head lowered as if he was suppressing a smile, and curled his lips.
Why is this understanding brother a prophet?
Should we kill him when it gets dark later?
As a result, Xu Qingshan had no time at all that night.
Mei Hong brought a lot of documents to him and asked him to pick them up. The team of Professor Davis has begun to enter the key research stage. Although this key research stage may be as short as one or two months or as long as one or two years, it has already begun. There is something to write about.
The other two teams have also reached the startup stage.
As the core partner of the three teams, Xu Qingshan is naturally the beneficiary of the project results.
Mei Hong gave him those things to share the cake with.
As a result, Xu Qingshan finally managed to handle both sides of the matter because he was about to leave for the United States. He was too lazy to move at all. Jiang Huanxi helped him organize and fill out the paperwork.
"Qingshan, what do you think Princeton will be like?"
Jiang Huanxi asked with longing.
“Should, maybe, maybe. Well, I don’t know, maybe it’s similar to our Beijing University?”
Xu Qingshan was stuck.
He has never been to the United States, nor to Princeton. This is true in this life, and it was true in his previous life.
"I think your sister-in-law should know this better, right?"
Jiang Yuhua has a PhD in mathematics from Princeton.
She had been in the capital for a short time before, and she didn’t know what she was doing at the mathematics center that Huaqing was preparing, so she flew back to Princeton without even saying hello.
It was only when I arrived at school that I thought of reporting that Jiang Huanxi, a little girl who was also in the capital, was safe.
"Then can we meet my sister-in-law this time?"
Jiang Huanxi's eyes lit up.
Originally, she was a little nervous about going to a foreign country, but if there were relatives around, the experience might be completely different.
"Then you have to hope that she doesn't run around and make an appointment with her in advance."
Xu Qingshan muttered.
He was already starting to feel sleepy while lying down.
Slowly he fell asleep.
I have been a little too tired lately.
But when he felt himself regaining consciousness, he found that he was already on the plane.
And.
He was still resting his head on Jiang Huanxi's shoulder, drooling all over the floor.
(End of this chapter)