I am devoted to scientific research, but you want to trick me into having a love relationship?

Chapter 464 You Chose the Hardest Path Again
The next day.

They were supposed to get up early, but they dawdled until 10: before going out.

Song Yao was going to Professor Morton to check on the work done in the past few days and prepare to start the next stage of her busy life.

Xu Qingzhou went straight to the MIT library. The direction of the project was determined, but this was only the first step in a long journey. There was a lot of preparation work to be done for the project.

First of all, the interdisciplinary nature and engineering requirements of superconducting thin film preparation certainly cannot be handled alone as in the past, and a professional experimental team must be formed.

This thing is more troublesome. In Xu Qingzhou's opinion, it is even more troublesome than the experiment itself. After all, the team needs to be coordinated, and a qualified team can determine the success or failure of the project.

In addition, before he began drafting the project application, he had to collect information on the preparation of high-quality superconducting films.

"Oxide Molecular Beam Epitaxy (OMBE) Technology" talks about the lattice control and strain engineering of self-supporting nickel-based superconducting films, and "Superconducting Film Preparation and Application" talks about the preparation of large-area YBCO films by metal organic chemical vapor deposition (MOCVD).

In addition, he also collected a large amount of information from top journals such as Nature Materials and Advanced Materials in order to understand the latest research results in this field and the mainstream research directions.

So, I spent the whole morning looking for information.

At 1:30 in the afternoon, Xu Qingzhou ate a piece of pizza, packed up and went to see Professor Roberts.

The complex analysis course he taught had ended at the end of June, and Horn was in charge of the remaining exams.

Today I mainly go to visit friends and relatives.

There were only Professor Roberts and Horn in the office.

He arrived at the right time, and the office was filled with the faint aroma of coffee.

Professor Roberts and his colleagues are currently at the graph embedding fusion stage, which basically involves constructing a user-item bipartite graph, applying Node2Vec to generate a 128-dimensional embedding, and finally designing a joint training framework of matrix decomposition + graph neural network.

What follows is a year-long engineering implementation process.

"Xu, what are you doing?"

Professor Roberts, as expected of a mathematics major, quickly noticed the ring on Xu Qingzhou's hand.

Xu Qingzhou did not hide it and said, "As you can see, I am married. To be precise, my wife and I have obtained a marriage certificate and will hold the wedding in a few years."

"Getting married? Oh, Xu, congratulations!"

Horn congratulated him, handed Xu Qingzhou a cup of coffee, and sighed, "You have proved with facts that beautiful love exists."

Professor Roberts drank coffee and said, "Of course it exists. Love is like a transcendental equation. The solution is beyond logic, but it draws the most beautiful curve in the universe. My wife and I are like intersecting lines in projective geometry. We extend separately but are forever entangled on the horizon."

Xu Qingzhou smiled. He never realized that the old man had such an idealistic and romantic side.

After talking about love for a while, everyone got back to work.

"Xu, have you considered joining our team?" Horn asked expectantly.

"I came here today to discuss this matter."

Xu Qingzhou said apologetically: "I plan to try things related to condensed matter physics, quantum chips, and the high-quality preparation of the first layer of superconducting metal film."

"This"

"Xu, from number theory to condensed matter, or deep crossover with materials science in chip research, have you really thought it through?"

Horn said with a frown.

Xu Qingzhou smiled and nodded, answering yes.

Professor Roberts said solemnly: "Princeton's Department of Materials Science also has a related project, using molecular beam epitaxy, the goal is to optimize the interface flatness of single crystal thin films."

"Professor, do you also know news in the field of physics?" Horn was surprised.

Professor Roberts sipped his coffee and said, "There's an old guy. You met him last time, Yulin Rosen, who is in this team."

"Mr. Rosen, I benefited a lot from the last exchange." Horn sighed. Xu Qingzhou had also heard of Yulin Rosen, a statistical mathematician who could be considered a top expert in the field of statistics.

"Besides Princeton, our school may also have similar projects. Last year, James' team developed a low-temperature film-forming technology based on chemical solution deposition (CSD)."

Horn: "You will face many powerful, no, terrifying opponents in the field of condensed matter. Do you plan to continue?"

“Of course, that’s what makes it challenging.”

Xu Qingzhou said affirmatively.

Professor Roberts and Horn looked at each other, both seeing the other's helplessness and feeling Xu Qingzhou's stubbornness. He paused and asked, "So. Your team?"

"At the moment, it's still in the planning stage." Xu Qingzhou coughed dryly.

"Xu, I sincerely suggest that it is more practical to work on a mathematics project than on a superconducting film. I guarantee that when the time comes, countless people will want to join your team once you raise your hand."

Horn said seriously.

Xu Qingzhou majors in mathematics and can be said to be one of the most sought-after scholars in the world. He has won the Wolf Prize in Mathematics, the Chern Prize in Mathematics, and the Fields Medal, which he will receive in August.

Many people will be interested in this mathematician's topic.

But condensed state.
Xu Qingzhou is a complete novice.

Not to mention that Princeton has a super strong research group.

Even at MIT, Xu Qingzhou seems to have no competitiveness.

Isn't this equivalent to a novice starting to play in the peak game?

Everyone has limited time, especially in a top university like this. Wasting a few months is enough to create a gap between yourself and others. Anyone who is a little bit rational probably won't follow Xu Qingzhou to join in the fun.

"I agree with Horne's point of view."

Professor Roberts said solemnly: "After all, this is your first project as a professor. I believe many people are looking forward to your new achievements."

Xu Qingzhou shrugged and said nonchalantly: "Just like the saying goes, if Gauss stares at complex numbers for too long, sonnets will appear in his eyes."

Gauss once studied number theory for many years, and later turned to poetry.

He continued, “I want to try something new, too.”

Horn was silent for a while, and finally nodded: "Okay, although it seems bold, you are indeed qualified. You have both strength and youth."

Seeing Xu Qingzhou's insistence, Professor Roberts and Horn stopped persuading him. The three of them turned their topic to their projects, how to improve cluster utilization through Spark dynamic resource allocation, and how to use Intel MKL to accelerate BLAS operations.

At five o'clock in the afternoon, Xu Qingzhou said goodbye and left.

Before leaving, Roberts asked with a smile: "Xu, are you interested in taking a few students?"

Xu Qingzhou shook his head slightly, "However, if the committee agrees, I plan to offer a course."

After all, I'm getting paid 50 yuan, so I can't work for nothing.

Besides, the class is actually quite interesting, so I can just take it as a way to relax.

“I don’t think any school would turn down a Fields Medalist’s request to teach.”

Professor Roberts nodded.

Xu Qingzhou left the office and did not return to the library. He drove to the supermarket to buy some food and planned to go home to cook.'

As she is still suffering from jet lag, Song Yao does not plan to work overtime these two days and will come back early to rest.

(End of this chapter)