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Chapter 713 This isn't deception, it's win-win cooperation.

At the hotel, Xu Qingzhou first went to see Academician Ren Nan to explain the cooperation with the Institute of Plasma Physics.

After discussing it, the two decided to arrange for Li Yi and Gao Wenjin to lead the team over. These two were originally from the superconducting thin film experimental group and were among the earliest researchers in the institute to come into contact with the controlled nuclear fusion project.

So they called Li Yi and the other man over.

There are no problems with Li Yi and Gao Wenjin. Having them collaborate with us on the research of nanoporous tungsten membranes shows that we highly value them.

With everything settled, Xu Qingzhou returned to his room, took a hot shower, and then called Song Yao.

Xu Qingzhou looked at the manuscript on the table and thought to himself, "Actually, the current plan for this nanoporous tungsten membrane is just an outline, and we need to refine the details."

You could say it's all hype, but not much. Everything he and Li Gang said was actually based on mathematical calculations.

As for why Li Gang agreed to cooperate...

All we can say is that it takes two to fight.

Li Gang has reached his current position, and it's certainly not because he was swayed by a few words from Xu Qingzhou. At the very least, he did see the theoretical feasibility in Xu Qingzhou's calculations and plans.

Of course, there's another point: a triple winner of the Wolf Prize, Fields Medal, and Nobel Prize—the kind of promises made by such a big shot are incredibly tempting.

Even if it is theoretically feasible, Xu Qingzhou himself cannot guarantee the experimental results.

His mathematical model is based on the original data for prediction.

Before conducting actual experiments, our understanding is limited. Theory may ignore real-world constraints to some extent. Subtle changes such as reagent purity and nonlinear reaction rates can have a decisive impact on the experiment.

"With advancements in both superconducting magnet systems and plasma, research on the first wall should indeed be put on the agenda."

Xu Qingzhou gently twirled the pen in his hand.

The spherical tokamak they made still requires an ohmic transformer to generate the initial plasma current, and its magnetic flux decays over time in the same physical way as that of a traditional tokamak.

According to Xu Qingzhou's vision, the superconducting magnet must be able to generate a strong magnetic field greater than 20T.

There is also a completely new negative triangular plasma, and the performance of the first wall material is an urgent issue to be addressed.

The seminar passed by in a flurry of activity.

Quite coincidentally, on the penultimate day after the event, on the evening of the 11th, Xu Qingzhou received an email from the editorial department of the American journal "Mathematical Inventions," inviting him to serve as an external reviewer for the latest IUT theory by Japanese author Shinichi Mochizuki.

"A gentleman does not stand under a dangerous wall."

"Why did they approach me? Is it because I'm also working on innovation theory?"

Xu Qingzhou didn't hesitate much and politely declined again, saying that he was not an expert on the ABC conjecture and was not qualified to take on such a difficult task.

The theory of supersymmetric zeta functions was already enough of a headache for him; he had no time or energy to help this stubborn mathematician test new theories.

IUT theory has been described as "walking on an uninhabited planet," lacking a connection with traditional mathematical frameworks.

This is like this: common sense dictates that only apple trees bear apples, but now someone tells you that pear trees can also bear apples. Generally speaking, hearing this would shock a normal person's worldview.

Furthermore, given that Mochizuki and other members of the mathematics community have been arguing for seven or eight years, this paper is unlikely to change much.

Before they could even resolve their own controversies, they were already embroiled in another one. Following the field trip to Science Island, the symposium hosted several smaller presentations, covering topics such as integrated design of fusion reactors, materials and cladding systems, and superconducting magnet technology.

The first two topics mainly depend on the performance of the Institute of Plasma Physics and the Southwest Institute of Nuclear Physics, while for this last topic, the Institute of Materials Science finally has a sense of participation.

Li Yi took the stage to share his research on adaptive PID controllers for magnet systems. This mainly involves dynamically adjusting the parameters of the latent heat term of phase transition to control the temperature field and prevent microcracks in superconducting magnets.

The seminar room.

After a 30-minute report, Li Yi closed his notebook and said slowly, "That concludes the report. Now, we will have a Q&A session."

"Adaptive PID controllers are very useful. We also have controllers with the same function here. We can exchange information later."

Professor Xiao Chenghan said with a smile.

British physicist Galen Kelly asked, "Dr. Li, could you please elaborate on the experimental data mining and pattern recognition content on page 18 of your PPT?"

"My pleasure."

Li Yi nodded. "Here, we extracted topological features from the electron microscope images and also used a clustering algorithm."

5 minutes passed.

Galen Kelly thanked him and said he was fine.

Klinger and the others shook their heads. The report was well-written and contained many novel ideas. They were already planning to discuss it privately with Xu Qingzhou and the others after the seminar.

At that moment, Zhang Zhigao spoke up:
“你们第4.32的内容，磁体48千安稳态持续50秒，但原始数据第37秒存在0.007%的电流抖动，从48.000降至47.997千安。”

"According to the IEEE superconducting magnet specification, such micro-oscillations indicate a risk of helium bubble accumulation—could this be an early sign of material fatigue?"

The question was fairly standard.

Li Yi turned to the section where Zhang Zhigao asked a question and quickly pondered: "Thank you for your attention to the details of the data. The jitter was detected by synchronous monitoring of the grid voltage transient of ±0.3V. The independent power supply did not reproduce the same fluctuation. There is relevant supplementary information in the appendix."

"In Section 3.2 you assumed that 'plasma turbulence is isotropic,' but in 2024, in a paper published in Nature, we demonstrated that there is a 7% asymmetry in turbulent energy transfer in HL-2M."

Zhang Zhigao was not surprised and said meaningfully, "Idealistic assumptions do not seem to be the goal that scientific researchers should pursue."

Suddenly, a hint of tension filled the air.

Zhang Zhigao's question was unabashedly difficult, especially the last sentence, which was quite sharp.

To put it simply, when a weather forecast says "there is a 93% chance of precipitation today," it's like the "isotropy" assumption in a research paper, using statistical generalization to replace the specific shape of each cloud.

Now, some are accusing forecasters of ignoring the unusual shape of a certain cloud, thus raising suspicions of forecast fraud.

The Institute of Materials Science and Engineering does not currently possess a mature tokamak device, meaning it cannot provide its own experimental data to refute him.

As for assumptions, they will use them, but it's okay to occasionally use double standards to annoy the people at the Kyoto Institute for Materials Science.

On one side, Klinger revealed an amused expression. It was rare to see such academic "tit-for-tat" on Xia Kingdom's territory.

Xu Qingzhou and Ren Nan were not in a hurry and waited quietly. They had a lot of confidence in Li Yi. This kid was very capable and was one of the best even in the Materials Research Institute.

(End of this chapter)