Research starts with PhD students

Chapter 62 The mentor guides me, and you guide the mentor
Cao Mengbo's questions made Tan Zhiming furious.

What does it mean to be sure that CP violation signals can be detected?
The ultimate goal of the CP group is to discover CP destruction signals.

All international high-energy physics institutions have CP groups. Who dares to say that they can definitely discover CP violation signals?

Over the past decade, the CP group's research has made great progress, as evidenced by the fact that their work was published twice in Nature magazine, and one of their projects won the first prize in the National Science and Technology Award.

In terms of research, including creating a hyperon environment with ultra-low contamination, including extremely sensitive probe technology, etc., they are recognized worldwide.

Tan Zhiming took a few deep breaths, stood up suddenly, and shouted with angry eyes, "Cao Mengbo! What are you asking?!"

"Don't you know what's going on with the CP group?"

Cao Mengbo narrowed his eyes slightly. "I am just giving him a taste of his own medicine. Don't you know what question you are asking Professor Bao?"

"Can that be the same!"

Tan Zhiming gritted his teeth and said, "Do I not support your experimental analysis algorithm project? It is you who are going to hand the project over to others!"

"You still have reason?"

"I'm not sure if the project can be completed when I give it to others. I've set up the project and allocated funds for you, but it's all in vain, isn't it?"

"The research of the CP group is one of the key projects of the institute and also an important international research direction..."

Before Tan Zhiming finished speaking, Cao Mengbo interrupted him directly, "Academician Tan, you don't have to say these things. I just want to ask, are you sure that your research can detect the CP violation signal? If so, when can it be detected?"

"If we are not sure whether it can be detected, wouldn't the hundreds of millions spent by the CP team be wasted?"

Tan Zhiming was almost suffocated by this sentence. He gritted his teeth and said, "No CP team in the world dares to say that it can detect CP destruction signals!"

“If they can’t do it abroad, then you can’t do it?”

Cao Mengbo laughed disdainfully, "Then why are you doing scientific research? Why don't you just wait for others to make it and then replicate the experiment?"

He was too lazy to argue after he finished speaking. He turned his head and looked at the director Wu Jianning. "Director Wu, you can see it, right? Academician Tan is deliberately blocking our computing center's project."

"Our project won't pass. I will vote against the expansion of the CP group!"

"In addition, our computing center will not cooperate with the work of the CP team!"

The project meeting ended in a bad mood.

Wu Jianning's face didn't look very good. He was responsible for the basic experimental work on particle collisions, which was related to the research of the CP group and the computing center.

He attaches great importance to the work of the CP group and also attaches equal importance to the research of new algorithm projects.

Wu Jianning thought about what happened just now and sighed, "This Cao Mengbo, he usually has a good temper, but when he gets stubborn, he dares to say anything."

Tan Zhiming said indignantly, "Director Wu, please judge for yourself! I am in charge of the Science and Technology Planning Department, so of course I have to take care of the project. The new algorithm is a big project. Such a large computing center must cooperate with a doctoral student? I just can't understand it."

Wu Jianning shook his head and said, "That's not an ordinary doctoral student. I know Zhang Shuo, and there's a lot of noise online about him. He published two math papers in top journals and performed very well at international conferences!"

"Of course I know that."

Tan Zhiming said, "Actually, this is what I was thinking. Since he is so capable, why not recruit him to the computing center?"

“If Zhang Shuo can come to the computing center, then we can still do the project ourselves.”

"Besides, a research, especially software research, can be done by anyone!"

"Zhang Shuo doesn't understand physics either. He can make an algorithm to analyze a small experiment, but can he understand a large-scale experiment with so many parameters?"

Wu Jianning thought about it silently.

Frankly speaking, what Tan Zhiming said makes sense, but many people obviously don’t see it that way.

Not only Cao Mengbo, but also Academician Gao Hongli, Liao Zhenyu, Liu Ye and others, also tend to cooperate with Zhang Shuo.

He thought for a moment and said, "The new algorithm is also very important. Since Cao Mengbo and the others want to cooperate, let them do so."

"The most important thing now is to expand the CP group. Don't delay this main task. Let's set up the project for them first, let them talk about it, and then see."

After thinking about it, Tan Zhiming had no choice but to compromise.

He felt that he was compromising for the sake of scientific research and had a great sentiment, but he still felt very depressed in his heart.

The expansion of the cp group is the most important.

Cao Mengbo is the deputy director of the Institute of High Energy Physics and the head of the Computing Center. If he insists on voting against it, the expansion of the CP group will be postponed indefinitely.

……

Soo Dong University.

Zhang Shuo is appointed as a researcher at the Institute of Advanced Mathematics. He is no longer an ordinary doctoral student.

The usual feeling is different.

When he went to class, Li Weihua did not treat him as a student, but as a colleague of the same level.

For example, no longer ask him to answer questions.

For example, the content of after-class discussions became projects.

"You actually completed that universal algorithm, that's amazing!" Li Weihua's voice was full of admiration, "At first I thought it was impossible, but I didn't expect..."

"I think you don't need to come to my class. My class is too easy for you."

"Don't worry about your grades, you will definitely get the highest rating." He then talked about the project, "This research can be applied for a large software project. I heard that you don't want to apply? That's a bit of a pity."

"Not interested."

Zhang Shuo said, "The Institute of Science and Engineering seems to be interested. If they can apply for it, they will definitely need a lot of scholars in the field of PDE calculation to participate."

"Teacher Li, if you are interested, you can go and ask."

Li Weihua pricked up his ears and listened, then said nonchalantly, "Like you, I also like to do innovative research, and I'm not very interested in doing projects."

He said this, but he packed up the books noticeably faster.

After class.

Zhang Shuo and Liu Chengjie walked towards the computer room together. Today was the weekly meeting between doctoral students and their supervisors.

Liu Chengjie was wailing all the way, "Now that you have become a researcher, should I call you Teacher Zhang or Professor Zhang from now on?"

"We are classmates, don't mind it."

Zhang Shuo said, "Look, now I have to go with you to see the instructor, right?"

“That’s right…”

The two of them talked as they entered the computer room.

Luo Yongjun felt a little anxious when he saw Zhang Shuo. He immediately turned his gaze to Liu Chengjie and asked seriously, "Have you read all the paper materials I gave you last time?"

"I read part of it." Liu Chengjie answered with his head down.

"A part? How much is a part?"

Luo Yongjun was a little disappointed, "What did you do with those simple documents?"

Liu Chengjie quickly added, "I've read more than half of it, a little over three articles."

"How do you understand it? Tell me." Luo Yongjun motioned Liu Chengjie to sit down.

Liu Chengjie took out the information from his bag and was about to open it when he heard Luo Yongjun say, "Just tell me what you understand. There's no need to look for information. What's the point of reading it aloud?"

Liu Chengjie could only bite the bullet and say, "The first article I read was an analysis of the solution of a nonlinear equation..."

"The second one is..."

"The third chapter..."

Luo Yongjun was obviously dissatisfied after hearing this. He asked Liu Chengjie to take out the fourth article and said, "Just read it here and finish reading the fourth article. When you finish reading it, you can leave."

"I hope you'll have read them all when you come back next week."

"To do mathematical research, you must spend more time. You can't fish for three days and dry the net for two days..."

He said a lot in a row.

When I turned around again, I saw Zhang Shuo sitting on a chair with a research draft in his hand.

He asked anxiously, "How is it?"

Zhang Shuo nodded and said, "There is no problem overall, but the methods used in some small steps are too complicated, which may affect the subsequent demonstration."

"Teacher Luo, come over and take a look."

Luo Yongjun sat over.

Zhang Shuo immediately explained, "You may not have thought about this part carefully. We cannot use parameter comparison here, but need to list the formula. Otherwise, the subsequent arguments will be affected and the subsequent arguments will become more complicated. It is impossible to list all the parameters."

"We still need to be rigorous in our argumentation. This part is the most critical. We will then start to argue for expanding the boundaries."

Zhang Shuo said a lot of things in a row.

Luo Yongjun kept listening and nodding, and explained his ideas on expanding the border.

Liu Chengjie held the materials in his hand and looked up at the two people who were discussing research. He couldn't help but sigh in his heart, "We are indeed classmates and have the same advisor."

"The problem is, the instructor guides me, and you guide the instructor; the instructor scolds me, and you... even though you didn't scold me, there's no difference."

Zhang Shuo gave Luo Yongjun an explanation, and also spent five scientific research coins, and talked about the direction of subsequent demonstration.

Then, he sat back at his computer and opened his email out of habit.

Agostini emailed again.

In the email, Agostini expressed his surprise at Zhang Shuo's idea, praised it as a genius idea, and also talked about his own ideas.

Later, he expressed his desire to come to China and work with Zhang Shuo for a period of time.

“We need face-to-face communication!”

"This way of sending emails is too inefficient. The revision of the signal evaluation system involves too much content. We need to improve efficiency."

Zhang Shuo thought about it carefully and agreed, "You are welcome to come anytime. I look forward to working with you!"

He thought it was pretty good.

The correction work of the signal evaluation system is indeed very complicated. It is inconvenient to communicate by email all the time. If we can communicate face to face, it may only take a few days to complete.

(End of this chapter)