Chapter 973 Invite him to a meeting!
After the production of Turbofan 10 has been successfully finalized, the project establishment work of Turbofan 20 and QC300 gas turbine...
Of course, it will not start immediately.
Chang Haonan is not a devil.
The buffer period must be left for comrades.
Otherwise, he doesn't have to stress about completing the appraisal meeting before the Spring Festival.
The day after Chang Haonan returned to the capital from Shengjing, it was already the 29th day of the twelfth lunar month.
By the way, he also asked his parents to be brought to the capital.
In this current year, the management of holidays is not so strict, so the holiday starts from the first day of the first lunar month. However, in fact, many less important positions no longer work on New Year's Eve.
Basically, the twenty-nine is the last serious working day.
Since the lunar year does not coincide with the natural year, Chang Haonan doesn't have much to do such as year-end summary.
It is customary on this day to send written New Year greetings to leaders, subordinates or acquaintances in four capacities: myself, a professor at Beihang University, the general manager of Torch Group, and the chief planner of Aviation Power Group. Blessings——
It is similar to New Year greetings messages many years later. Although most cases can be dealt with with unified copy and paste, there are still some people who need to pay attention individually.
Handwritten signature is a good way.
And deploy some businesses that cannot be suspended even during the Spring Festival holiday.
Such as external liaison and so on.
Other partners don’t celebrate the Spring Festival.
For such a large group, it is impossible to completely shut down.
When Chang Haonan finished processing the last congratulatory letter, he felt that his wrists were already a little sore.
So, he called Zhang Liangping and asked him to come over and take the letters and seal them separately.
Naturally, a dedicated person will be responsible for the subsequent letter delivery work, and Chang Haonan does not need to do it himself.
Next, just wait for Zhang Liangping to come over, and then simply arrange the work for the next few days to him, and today's task will be considered over.
New Year's Eve is approaching, and even Chang Haonan is ready to catch a fish and go home early——
When the turbofan 10 was not finalized, I worked overtime like crazy. Now that the turbofan 10 is finalized, I If you still work crazy overtime, wouldn’t the Turbofan 10 be finalized in vain?
However.
When the office door was knocked and then pushed open, Chang Haonan's heart, which had been released, suddenly sank.
Because, in addition to Zhang Liangping, standing at the door was Song Jingming, who was wearing a cotton coat and his shoulders covered with snowflakes...
The latter was running against the heavy snow at this time. It's obviously impossible to come here just to pay New Year's greetings.
Zhang Liangping quickly collected all the letters on the table, and Chang Haonan motioned to him to go back first and talk about work later.
So, Chang Haonan and Song Jingming were the only two people left in the office.
"Mr. Chang, I wish you a Happy New Year in advance!"
Song Jingming came up and wished Chang Haonan a happy New Year.
"Okay, happy New Year to you too."
The latter waved his hand and motioned for the other party to sit down casually:
"Let's talk about something..."
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Seeing this, Song Jingming went straight to the point:
"That's it. We have basically completed the preparations for the Numerical Algorithm and Computational Science Conference you arranged previously, and the plan is to hold it at the end of March."
< br>"The whole process is basically in line with the highest-level academic conferences in other industries. There is nothing special. There are just two things that you need to confirm in person."
He took out a notebook from his pocket as he spoke. Then open:
"The first is the numerical calculation competition before the conference. Since we promoted it at the end of last year, so far, the number of universities and research institutions that have signed up has exceeded three digits, and many schools Multiple teams have signed up, and the total number of participants must be more than a thousand.”
"Considering that the competition will be held offline, should we consider setting up a preliminary round or group stage in several locations, and finally select only the top one-fifth or one-quarter of the teams to participate in the finals?"
"After all... if there are too many people, it will also be a pressure for our review team and field management team."
As the chief planner and directly responsible person, Song Jingming is very concerned about arranging this Foreigners on this scale still feel a little guilty.
I have never had any relevant experience in the past.
“No need to make it so complicated”
Fortunately, Chang Haonan has already considered these issues relatively maturely:
“The preliminary competition can be held online, with several relatively low-difficulty questions set, and each participating group submitting corresponding engineering documents. Let's evaluate the calculation results."
"Besides...what's there to worry about because of the large number of people?"
Chang Haonan smiled:
"The travel expenses and expenses of the contestants? We don’t have to pay for food and accommodation. There are so many people coming here and they always have to spend money in the surrounding areas. Wouldn’t it actually boost the economy..."
Torch Group still has 100 million points of influence in the numerical computing business.
Whether it is a competition or a conference, except for a few big players, there is no need to attract foreigners to participate by issuing subsidies.
As long as you set an honor with enough influence and a bonus, it is enough.
However, after Song Jingming heard this, he frowned with some worry:
“But Mr. Chang, our competition rules prohibit the participation of instructors. If online method, how to prevent contestants from cheating? ”
"It's very simple, no need to avoid it"
Chang Haonan gave the answer almost without thinking:
"Our preliminary round is not based on the overall proportion, but based on the school or institution where you are, that is, each person passes Each school can only send one undergraduate group and one graduate student group to participate in the finals. "
"In this way, no matter what form they use to pass the preliminary round, they will have to show their true results offline in the finals. Asking the instructor to cheat will only make your school look particularly embarrassed at the end..." This kind of thinking actually puts the pressure of preliminary selection on the school's head.
If the school does not want to embarrass itself in front of its peers, it must ensure that the team it sends is strong enough and naturally has incentives to fight against cheating.
Of course, it is impossible to completely guarantee fairness in online competitions.
But first of all, the fairness aspect is guaranteed by the finals, so it won’t be particularly ugly.
Secondly...
The core purpose of this competition is not to sort participating schools into third, sixth or ninth grade, but to dig a hole for COMSOL to jump——
Even if all foreign teams choose to use TORC Multiphysics software to compete, Chang Haonan himself will specially arrange for a few obscure domestic schools to use rival products.
Combined with specially designed tricky questions...
In short, after the final results come out, everyone will notice the serious loopholes in COMSOL Multiphysics' CFD calculations.
As for who is the champion...
There is a high probability that no one will pay attention to it.
...
"Then...there is another thing."
After writing down Chang Haonan's instructions, Song Jingming took out a folder from his briefcase and put it in Go to Chang Haonan:
"This is the list of special guests for this conference. Is there anything you want to add or delete?"
Special guests, as the name suggests.
Compared with ordinary participants who submit their own applications and get approval, the people on this list are actively invited by Torch Group to attend the meeting.
Of course, there must be differences in treatment.
At least it is impossible for these people to pay for their own food and accommodation like other participants.
Chang Haonan opened the folder and found that inside was a list of three pages, front and back.
In addition to the name and work unit, there are also main academic achievements, contact information, personal willingness to participate in the conference, and a headshot.
There are about twelve or three people who have confirmed that they can come.
Basically all the big names in the field of numerical computing who are still active in the academic frontline——
This field is too close to engineering, and in most cases relies more on experience than theory, so it is not Subjects like mathematics or physics are prone to giving birth to many famous names.
Except for a few outliers like Anthony Jameson and of course Chang Haonan himself, few people can single-handedly make any huge achievements that promote the development of the entire research field.
Therefore, even Chang Haonan could hardly think of any missing candidates.
He closed the folder and was about to end the conversation:
"That's it..."
However, at this moment, a name suddenly flashed in his mind.
Harold Huang.
It is the professor who contributed to the first issue of JCAS journal.
The other party used a method called "high-order flux reconstruction (FR)" to unify several compact and high-precision formats that have appeared in recent years.
This result did not cause much trouble at the time, and the number of subsequent citations could only be considered moderate, but Chang Haonan was very optimistic about its development prospects.
It just needs to further promote its application scope.
Originally, his plan was to invest some resources in this direction after the 2.0 version update of TORCH Multiphysics was completed.
But after that time, Chang Haonan seemed to have never seen papers published in the name of the other party.
"Old Song."
He reopened the folder, took out a pen, wrote "Harrod. Huynh" at the end of the list, and handed it to the other party:
" There is a professor named Harold Huang at Ohio State University. I will send you his email and research group website in a moment. You can contact him to see if he is willing to participate in the meeting. If so, please come too. Listed as a special guest"
"Harold Huang..."
Song Jingming took the folder:
"Are you Chinese?"
"It doesn't look like it."
Chang Haonan shook his head:
"It should just be a coincidence in the transliteration of the surname."
< br>“When I looked up information before, I seemed to have never heard of this name...”
Song Jingming frowned slightly, worried that there might have been some oversight in his work.
“You’re right if you haven’t heard of it.”
Chang Haonan leaned back on his chair, turned around and looked at the snowy scene outside the window:
“This person He is not very famous in academia. If he hadn't happened to contribute a paper, I wouldn't have known his name."
"But this kind of person is the one we should focus on..."< br>
After confirming that it was not his problem, Song Jingming breathed a sigh of relief:
"Then, the reason for special invitation in the meeting communiqué..."
"Just write that I invited you."
Chang Haonan replied simply and neatly.
(End of this chapter)