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Chapter 126 Mathematics is just going around in circles?!

As they walked and talked, they soon arrived at the laboratory of the research group. In the office area, Qiao Yu also met all the members of the research group and the other three senior brothers.

"Come, let me introduce you to Qiao Yu, the student sent by the International Mathematical Research Center to help us optimize the model. I know you may have doubts about Qiao, but don't ask any questions. At least keep them to yourself before the model is optimized."

As soon as he entered the office area, Liu Hao clapped his hands and spoke to everyone.

It can be seen that Liu Hao still has a lot of prestige in the team. After he said this, although several people looked at Qiao Yu with confusion, they still gave him face and began to applaud and welcome him.

Qiao Yu suspected that Senior Brother Liu was still shouldering the responsibility of Junior Director.

Senior Brother Xue told him that the big-name mentors who often get invited to projects usually don’t have much time to teach students. Otherwise, they entrust an associate professor or assistant professor in the school to be a junior supervisor, or a partner who knows them well to be a junior supervisor.

There are also supervisors who will directly let their best doctoral students take on some of the work of junior supervisors.

"That's enough." Liu Hao raised his hand and gestured, and the applause stopped. Qiao Yu, let me introduce you, this is Luo Cheng, Zhang Haoyuan and Qin Zhongliang. There is another senior sister in the research group, who is not feeling well today and asked for leave."

After saying that, Liu Hao glanced around the office again and asked, "Where's Chen Jiang?"

"Go wash the bottles." Zhang Haoyuan replied.

"Oh." Liu Hao responded, then looked at Qiao Yu and said, "Everyone is here. Um, shall I show you some information first?"

Qiao Yu thought for a moment and asked, "Can you take me to your test area first? And then tell me about your test operations?"

Liu Hao nodded and said, "Okay."

Then he turned around, waved at Zhang Haoyuan, and said, "Xiao Zhang, take Qiao Yu to the test area. I'll sort out the data first."

……

The laboratory that Senior Brother Liu is in charge of is right next to the office area.

It was different from what Qiao Yu had imagined. The chemistry lab in the university was indeed much more advanced than the one in the junior high school. It was no longer just about bottles and jars.

"This is……"

"This is a reactor. Yes, it's a high-pressure reactor. Many experimental reactions have requirements for temperature and pressure, so this thing is needed. This is our most advanced model, which can directly set the temperature, pressure, and stirring rate to ensure that the reaction proceeds evenly." Zhang Haoyuan introduced diligently.

"Oh!" Qiao Yu nodded and was very satisfied with Senior Brother Zhang who was responsible for the introduction.

"This is the latest equipment we purchased for this project, the most advanced hydrogenation fixed bed. It was donated to our research team by a company across the street. It can not only produce methanol by hydrogenating carbon dioxide, but also produce liquid hydrocarbon dyes by hydrogenating carbon dioxide."

Zhang Haoyuan patted a big guy next to him and said.

Qiao Yu could only nod his head like an elementary school student.

As expected, different trades are like different worlds. Qiao Yuzhen had never seen these instruments before.

Judging from Brother Zhang's proud look, this thing is probably quite expensive and cannot be bought anywhere else.

"And this is the gas feed system. Hydrogen and carbon dioxide are input through this system. It consists of a gas cylinder, a flow controller and a gas filter. You can see that by setting it up here, we can ensure precise control of the gas flow and ratio. This is also the most advanced in the country."

"We also have our own gas chromatograph. We don't have to compete with other research groups in the test lab. You see, it's also the most advanced model... This is our data acquisition and control system.

The data that Senior Brother Liu is sorting out comes from here. Let me tell you, there are not many laboratories that can realize automation and data recording systems. You came to the right place to visit our laboratory..."

Zhang Haoyuan introduced it with great interest. Qiao Yu could see that this Senior Brother Zhang was really proud of his own laboratory.

It's a pity that he is a complete layman when it comes to chemistry...

I had to cram for several days to get full marks in the junior high school chemistry exam. I had never even touched high school chemistry.

"Um, Senior Brother Zhang, this set of equipment is very expensive, right?" Qiao Yu asked casually after Zhang Haoyuan finished his introduction.

"Equipment? Uh... yeah, haha, this set of equipment is indeed very expensive. But it's not a big deal for our boss. To be honest, our boss has two other companies outside, and their annual turnover is tens of millions."

After hearing this, Qiao Yu probably understood why graduate students like to call their supervisors "boss".

This is the real boss!
In comparison, our own director Tian might be a little worse, and I don’t think I’ve heard of any company working for him outside.

Qiao Yu asked curiously, "Can professors also start companies outside of school?"

Zhang Haoyuan glanced at Qiao Yu and replied, "Why not? Companies that engage in random buying and selling are definitely not allowed, but we support professors to start companies that specialize in new areas. As long as they meet the minimum requirements for patent inventions, they can start a company. Our boss holds several major patents and has won the second prize of the National Science and Technology Progress Award."

Qiao Yu blinked his eyes. It turned out that there was money to be made in the application industry.

The annual turnover is tens of millions, and I don’t know what the net profit is. If the turnover is purely generated by patent licensing, it should still be very profitable, right?
So Qiao Yu asked another soul-searching question: "Brother Zhang, how much do you earn every month now?"

"Well...scholarships, job subsidies, research allowances and other miscellaneous amounts add up to an average of 7,000 to 8,000 yuan a month. These are all issued by the school and the Research and Work Department. If the project goes well, the boss will sometimes give some special research subsidies privately. It's not difficult to break through with hard work.

If you can publish a paper, you will get more rewards. But it is too tiring to work in a laboratory for chemistry. You can’t do part-time jobs, eh… unlike you who study mathematics, you don’t have to work in a laboratory. When you study for a doctorate, you will be free.”

Zhang Haoyuan sighed and said.

Qiao Yu wanted to tell Senior Brother Zhang that the annual turnover of the tutor was tens of millions, and as a tutor's student, you have to work very hard, and with the subsidy, you can only make more than 10,000 yuan a month, which is actually a bit unreasonable. But after thinking about it, he decided to forget it.

It seems that Senior Brother Zhang is quite satisfied. Maybe he earns more than other graduate students under other supervisors?

so poor.

However, one sentence did attract Qiao Yu's interest: "Brother Zhang, do you get rewards for publishing papers?"

Zhang Haoyuan nodded and said, "Of course there are. You can go and see that schools and colleges have regulations on scholarships and paper rewards. Now you can get 100,000 yuan for publishing an SCI English Zone 1 paper, and 50,000 yuan for an English Zone 2 paper. Anyway, you don't have to worry about paying the journal's page charges. It's even lower now, it was even more before.

Working with our boss, we have a lab with advanced equipment, so it is much easier to publish papers than those poor research groups. Do you understand? You should still be an undergraduate student, right? You are recommended to our lab to do model optimization at such a young age, so you must be very good at it.

I just want to tell you that you must choose a good mentor in the future. Just like our group, although it is hard now, as long as we work hard with the boss, we can still work in the boss's company after graduation. Sometimes choice is more important than hard work. "

Qiao Yu nodded. He thought that maybe Senior Brother Zhang had stayed in the laboratory for too long. Usually, he only talked with a few acquaintances and had no topics to talk about.

Today I saw that he couldn't hold back his mouth.

But it's a pity that mathematics is different from chemistry after all, and the former does not require experiments.

Thinking of what Senior Brother Liu had reminded him, that his fellow disciples' experiments had not been going well recently and that their moods were not very stable, he was too lazy to expose his mentor.

But there was one thing Qiao Yu kept in mind.

I will wait until his paper is published in Ann.Math and ask Professor Tian if there is any reward for the paper.

One hundred thousand yuan...

It’s not a small amount for him now.

And it seems that it is not difficult to publish a paper in a mathematics SCI zone 1 journal. If it is not one of the four top journals, it should be even easier. The school will reward 100,000 yuan for each paper. If he publishes 10 papers a year, it will be 1 million yuan. After two years, he will have the original capital to start a company, right?

Wait, theoretically he is a joint student of Yanbei University and Huaqing University, and logically he might be able to get awards from both sides for his papers in the future. If he is more diligent...

Sure enough, when going to college, you still have to learn how to publish papers on projects first. This is the fastest way to accumulate wealth in the early stages.

"Thank you for the reminder, I will remember it later. How about you tell me briefly about your experimental process, and then I will analyze the data and make a model."

"Okay, the first step is naturally the preparation of a cobalt-based catalyst..."

Soon Zhang Haoyuan briefly explained the entire experimental process.

Apparently Liu Hao wasn't kidding when he said he had been running experiments every day recently. When Senior Brother Zhang introduced it, he was already very familiar with the entire process, including some small details, such as the adjustment of the gas feed system, the setting of the reactor, the collection and detection of the product...

The entire process was explained in detail, and Qiao Yu quickly simulated it in his mind.

I also have a general understanding of several important values ​​​​required by the model.

All that needs to be calculated are the rate constant, activation energy calculation, and finally the key step analysis.

Mathematical models are probably used to do this.

"I understand almost everything. Thank you, Senior Brother Zhang. Let's go back. I'll go check out what's wrong with the data."

"Do you understand now?"

"Well, I learn things pretty quickly." Qiao Yu smiled shyly and replied.

Back in the office, Liu Hao had already retrieved all the recent data. Seeing Zhang Haoyuan bringing Qiao Yu back, he asked, "Qiao Yu, are you going to pack up this data and take it back?"

Qiao Yu thought about it, then shook his head and said, "That's not necessary. This is useful data. I'm afraid I'll be held responsible if the data is leaked. I'll just watch it here."

Liu Hao smiled awkwardly and said, "Actually, there is no need. In the past, all this data was packed up and given to Professor Lu to take back... and since the experiments have all failed, there is no need to keep this data secret."

Qiao Yu did not answer, but sat down next to the computer and looked at the data while saying: "I heard from Senior Brother Zhang just now that cobalt-based catalysts adsorb and activate reactants on the surface, change the electronic structure and reaction path, provide selective paths, and continuously cycle reactions.

This reduces the activation energy of hydrogenation of CO and H to produce methanol, allowing the reaction to proceed quickly at a lower temperature. Your laboratory's goal is to improve the catalyst formulation and production process to speed up the reaction rate and increase the selectivity of the target product methanol, right? "

Liu Hao stood next to Qiao Yu and said, "Yes. This technology is mainly used to optimize the production line. At present, there is a certain gap in production efficiency between our production line and similar foreign companies. The boss has done preliminary analysis with the manufacturer's technical staff, and the gap is most likely in these two areas.

If we can increase the methanol production rate by 10% in the laboratory, we can probably catch up with the most advanced technology abroad. Of course, we also have to consider some issues in mass production, so for now we are only doing experiments at three temperatures. By the way, do you want to see the previous model?"

Qiao Yu shook his head and said, "No need. By the way, please recommend me a relevant paper so that I can understand the detailed process and technical details of the hydrogenation of carbon dioxide to produce methanol."

"Um...it's on the computer. I'll pull it up and show it to you. Is the one in English okay?"

“Are there a lot of chemical-specific words in it?”

“Yes, but not many.”

"That's no problem. If you encounter such words, just help me translate them."

……

To be honest, Liu Hao was not used to Qiao Yu's working style, but he admired it. Qiao Yu was even reluctant to take the data out of the laboratory.

how to say?

In fact, after cooperating with the Mathematical Research Center many times, he no longer minds this. But after all, these data were produced by him and his junior colleagues, and he does feel uncomfortable handing them over so casually.

Qiao Yu didn't mind the style of working in the office at all, he quite liked it.

Although the project they are working on now belongs to the inorganic category, this is a chemical laboratory building after all, and it is common for some smells to drift from the organic area to the office area. Although Yanbei University has very strict requirements on laboratory safety, there are always times when there are loopholes.

For example, the fume hood suddenly stops working for unknown reasons; the wind speed of the universal hood is not set enough when operating the laboratory bench; sometimes someone forgets to exhaust the room as a whole at regular intervals when leaving reagents...

In short, odor is inevitable.

The four major pitfalls of biochemistry, environmental materials science and engineering are not only about staying in the laboratory. Especially in chemistry, you have to deal with various toxic or even highly toxic reagents and various flammable and explosive dangerous substances every day. If you are not careful, you may be destroyed in a physical sense.

Especially in schools, students often operate the centrifuge. It is not uncommon to forget to balance the centrifuge. That is why most centrifuges are equipped with automatic balance detectors. Otherwise, the noise...

When communicating with my colleagues, some people even took pride in not playing with acid in a fume hood. You know, if anything goes wrong with this stuff, people will be ruined.

After the experiment was completed, the organic solution was poured directly into the pool to save trouble.

So Liu Hao could understand why many people didn't want to stay in the chemistry lab building. Even if he wasn't an idiot, he couldn't guarantee that others weren't.

If he hadn't chosen the wrong career, he would have stayed as far away from this building as possible. Now Qiao Yu was willing to help out in the office area of ​​the building, because Liu Hao had a very good impression of him.

Since he didn't need to do some of the experiments himself, he just stayed with Qiao Yu and read the paper.

If there were some things that Qiao Yu didn't understand, he would explain them.

In this way, the morning passed quickly, and at noon, I asked my junior fellow in the laboratory to bring lunch boxes to everyone.

"Okay, I roughly understand. I think this is not difficult. Just build a differential equation model, fit the data piecewise based on your temperature dependence analysis, and then process the data.

The abnormal fluctuation of the rate constant may be caused by the large error of the experimental data under high temperature conditions. I will make some adjustments in this regard. By the way, I feel that the most critical point of your experiment is the step of reducing formic acid to formaldehyde.

And I think the overall reaction rate is unstable at 500K, which is probably due to this step. The increase in temperature will make this step a bottleneck for the conversion. Your results are always unstable, which is probably related to the activity of the catalyst.

So you just need to work on this step and don't worry about the other steps. There shouldn't be any problem. My suggestion is to try to increase the activity of the catalyst surface in binding with HCOOH. Give me three hours for the specific model. "

Less than half an hour after dinner, Qiao Yu gave his opinion.

"Huh? Three hours? And can you be sure at which step the problem lies?" Liu Hao was a little puzzled.

Qiao Yu pointed at the data and said, "Brother Liu, you should have studied mathematics during your undergraduate studies in the School of Chemistry, right? This is actually simple differential equations, linear algebra, statistics, and data analysis.

The papers you recommended all have some information about reaction path optimization. After analyzing your data, it is likely that this is the problem. This is not difficult. A set of ordinary differential equations can calculate the overall reaction rate.

Then use your data to perform Arrhenius fitting for each temperature range separately to find the relationship between the rate constant and temperature. Perform regression fitting for the data of each temperature range separately, such as nonlinear least squares method.

Then use regularization technology to reduce overfitting under high temperature conditions, design a penalty term λ∑Ki and add it to the objective function... In short, don't worry, three hours is enough. I will finish it before four o'clock, you can use it first, I think there is a high probability that there will be no problem. "

Liu Hao remained silent.

However, the other people who were still working hard in the office looked at Qiao Yu in surprise.

But no one said much...

This guy from the School of Mathematics is not the first one to be so confident. We are used to it. It's just that this guy is younger.

After staying in the laboratory for a long time, I am actually very resistant to bragging.

We will know whether it works or not in a few hours, and we can all wait.

……

Qiao Yu got into work mode and naturally didn't care what others thought of him.

He simply thought that chemistry was indeed very simple.

As for Liu Hao, he had already gathered everyone else together and went to a small meeting room nearby to start the discussion.

"Did you all hear what Qiao Yu said just now? If it is really because of the catalyst surface activity problem in step three, we can directly reverse the results through the catalyst formula we put in the previous experiments."

"No, Brother Liu, that Qiao Yu just got in touch with chemical experiments today. Do you really think he is right? Just now in the laboratory, he didn't even recognize the equipment." Zhang Haoyuan couldn't help but complain.

"They made their judgment based on data, and it is not necessary to do experiments. Why do we have to stay in the laboratory when they can just sit next to the computer and do some calculations to guide our work? Do you have any idea in your mind?" Liu Hao glared at Zhang Haoyuan and said.

Qin Zhongliang pushed his glasses and said, "Well, let me say a few words about that. In fact, I think what Qiao Yu said may make sense. When we prepared the catalyst before, in order to reduce by-products, we used polyethylene glycol to modify the surface. Theoretically, the purity of polyethylene glycol has a great influence on the surface structure. If polyethylene glycol is doped with impurities, or some incompletely polymerized monomers may indeed cause the polymer layer to become uneven, affecting the formation of porous structure. This will indeed directly affect the surface structure and activity.

We didn't seem to pay much attention to this. Each batch of polyethylene glycol we received was used directly according to the specifications marked by the supplier. We didn't do any purity testing, right? I didn't do it anyway.

And everyone should know that PEG is stable at a certain temperature, but it may decompose at a high temperature of 500K, causing changes in the surface structure or even inactivation. Although we chose high molecular weight polyethylene glycol, we can't guarantee the quality of each batch, right? "

No one in the meeting room said a word.

Who would have the time to do another purity test on such commonly used materials... They were all used directly after receiving them. If that's the case, it seems possible...

Liu Hao took a deep breath and said, "Okay, let's give it a try. We won't use polyethylene glycol for surface modification this time. Since Qiao Yu said the key to the third step is to increase the specific surface area, let's just use activated carbon first."

"But activated carbon cannot provide precise acid-base control, so the selectivity is still a bit poor, right?" Qin Zhongliang raised an objection again.

"But activated carbon is cheap and convenient. Let's first see if this is the problem. If the result is good, we can directly use carbon nanotubes." Liu Hao made the final decision.

Carbon nanotubes are pursued for laboratory effects.

After all, this thing is very expensive, and if it is really promoted industrially, the cost will increase.

But using it in the laboratory may significantly improve the conversion efficiency. And the technology can be kept for now, maybe in the future when the cost of carbon nanotubes drops, it can be used in industry.

If we can achieve results with carbon nanotubes, we can then start looking for other low-cost materials to replace them, such as silicon dioxide, aluminum oxide, etc.

The most important thing now is to determine whether the problem really lies here.

So the meeting ended and everyone else went to the laboratory to get busy.

As for Liu Hao, he returned to the office area and sat next to Qiao Yu.

Looking at Qiao Yu, who had already started programming seriously in front of the computer, Liu Hao was distracted for a moment.

If the problem that had troubled them for more than half a month was easily solved by this sixteen-year-old kid... he suddenly felt embarrassed to face his boss.

Understand the experimental process, read a paper, and then analyze the data to directly find the key points. In Liu Hao's view, this is simply a chemical saint, a natural chemical conductor...

"Brother Liu, don't worry about me. I'll need to take a while."

"Oh, that's ok. I was just checking the data. Hey, is your cup empty? I'll get you a glass of water. By the way, do you want tea or coffee?"

"Um, milk tea?"

"Um...what does it taste like?"

"The one on the third floor of the Homeland Canteen that has a strong milky flavor will do."

"No problem. I'll have someone bring it over right away."

Soon, the only graduate student in the research group took off his bottle-washing gloves and rushed out of the laboratory. Twenty minutes later, he brought back six cups of milk tea, which he paid for with Liu Hao's credit card.

Drinking the sweet and milky tea, Qiao Yu felt more focused. He finally completed the last step, stretched, and then stood up.

"Okay, Brother Liu, you can just use this model. If you have any questions, feel free to contact me on WeChat. I'll help you make adjustments."

"Is this done?"

"Well, I think it should be fine. I just went through the data again. Although I don't know what caused the 500K fluctuation, according to the data analysis, it can only be that step that has a problem. As long as you can ensure the consistency of the reaction activity, the subsequent results will definitely become stable. I'm leaving first."

"No, it's almost time for dinner. Why don't we just have dinner together?"

"No, I have something else to do. Brother, you don't know that I have another project on hand, which is in cooperation with Huaqing. That one is really a headache. You guys are so good. The problems you gave are easy to solve. To do a two-dimensional generalization of Chevalier's theorem, ah... just thinking about it makes me feel overwhelmed."

"Then... shall I take you there?"

"No need, I'll go down and sweep a car and then go back. Goodbye, Senior Brother."

"goodbye!"

Watching Qiao Yu walk out of the laboratory with a relaxed step, Liu Hao was filled with emotion.

Of course, he couldn't say at this time whether it would succeed or not. Although Qiao Yu pointed out the problem and the materials were ready, it would take another day to redo the activation basic characterization and about a week to complete the preliminary tests.

As for the formal experimental data collection, it normally takes one or two weeks, but since they have already done formal data collection, this time can be greatly shortened.

After all, if you only use the reaction conditions at 500K, the time required will be different from that required for all three together.

If the direction pointed out by Qiao Yu is correct, it can be verified in three days.

Seeing Qiao Yu's confident look, Liu Hao suddenly felt relieved. Without considering other messy things, he could finish this project smoothly and have a good rest for a few days.

"Brother Liu, this Qiao Yu is so cool. He also has a collaboration with Huaqing? Is he bragging?" The master's student who went to buy milk tea earlier came up to Liu Hao and couldn't help but comment.

"People are so arrogant for a reason. Go search his name on the Internet and see if he is arrogant or not, or if he is just bragging." Liu Hao glared at his junior fellow apprentice and gave him a lecture.

"Ah?" The young man felt aggrieved. In the past, Brother Liu always stood with them and faced the outside world in unity, including that frequent collaborator Professor Lu, whom everyone had complained about but it was nothing.

But this time I got scolded for my complaint.

"What? Isn't it common for people so young to just use their brains, but you still have to wash bottles every day? If you are not convinced, go to the School of Mathematics for further studies and take some time to learn their skills. Then you can be so cool in the future. I can even polish your shoes every day when you enter the laboratory." Liu Hao criticized again.

The young man shook his lips in grievance, then quietly walked aside and went online to look up the name.

After a while, I roughly understood what it meant to be dizzy, what it meant to be unfair, and what it meant for men to be afraid of choosing the wrong career...

No, actually it wasn’t that he really wanted to study chemistry, it was mainly because the School of Mathematics didn’t like him…

Hey...that Qiao Yu is not just a sixteen-year-old student, he is a future big star!

……

At this time, Qiao Yu had already walked out of the chemistry laboratory building, still feeling a little uneasy.

I always feel that he still fails to treat everyone equally.

Huaqing was faced with a high-intensity math problem, but Director Tian assigned him such a simple task...

Of course, this wasn't his choice, so it's not his fault.

It's just that he feels a little bit emotional. This is probably his helplessness of wanting to shine the bright moon in his heart, but the bright moon only shines on the ditch?

But then again, although the task was simple, the gains were still great. For example, he learned how to make money by publishing papers.

He felt embarrassed to discuss this with Director Tian, ​​so after returning to the research center, Qiao Yu took the initiative to go up to the third floor to Senior Brother Chen’s office.

Although Brother Chen’s scientific research ability is average, he has been in school for a long time and knows a little about everything, making him the best person to get information from.

Moreover, at this time, even if there is a meeting, it has already ended. I can just take him out for a meal and discuss this matter in detail.

For example, Qiao Yu had no intention of writing a paper specifically on his newly discovered conjugate singular points, as he thought it was meaningless. But if this paper really offered a reward of 100,000 yuan for being published in a first-tier SCI school, then he had to write the paper.

And it is very simple, it is nothing more than accurately defining this special type of singularity through mathematical expression.

Then, we can analyze a set of methods to construct such singular points and discuss how such singular points can be applied to the characteristics of the geometric Langlands program. This is a very good paper. Qiao Yu felt that he could solve this problem in one day.

Who can resist the temptation of earning 100,000 yuan a day?

And this is just the beginning. If necessary, he can write another paper in the future to generalize this type of singular point to higher-dimensional algebraic clusters. By the way, he can also propose other possible types and properties of singular points. Who dares to say that this is meaningless?

……

"Knock, knock." Hearing the knock on the door, Chen Zhuoyang stood up and opened the door. He was very surprised to see Qiao Yu.

Although the two have been neighbors for a long time, this is the first time that Qiao Yu has come to his office. In the past, he always went downstairs to find Qiao Yu.

"Junior brother, why are you here? Are you planning to treat me to a meal at this time?" Chen Zhuoyang joked.

"Yes, I just want to treat you to a meal. Let's go to the school cafeteria and treat you to a big meal." Qiao Yu said generously.

As long as he treats people to a meal in the school cafeteria, Qiao Yu is really generous.

Firstly, the meal card that Director Tian gave him always had money deposited into it every month, and secondly, the meals in the canteen of Yanbei University were really cheap, so he didn't care how he treated them. Anyway, the money in the card was never enough to eat out.

Not to mention that he also has Huaqing's one-card pass, which has even more money in it.

"No, junior brother, if you have something to say, just tell me directly. You want to treat me to a meal right away? To be honest, I'm a little panicked." Chen Zhuoyang said.

His junior fellow apprentice has become so famous, if he gets into trouble it is definitely not something he can blame.

"Well, it's mainly because I saw Senior Brother Chen speaking up for me on Donghu, and I was very grateful, so I wanted to treat him to a meal. It's such a simple thing. Don't think about it too complicatedly." Qiao Yu glanced at Senior Brother Wudan and said generously.

"Well, is there a possibility that the one on Zhihu is not me?"

"Ha ha……"

"Forget it, let's go. Let me put on my coat."

"it is good."

……

After chatting for a while, Qiao Yu got to the point: "By the way, Senior Brother, I heard today that there are cash rewards for publishing papers in the School of Chemistry? One hundred thousand yuan for SCI Zone 1, is that true? Does our Mathematical Research Center have similar rewards?"

Chen Zhuoyang didn't think too much and answered directly: "Of course there are. For example, your paper, once published in Ann.Math, will get at least 200,000 yuan in reward. If Director Tian wants to help you apply for more, 300,000 yuan is possible.

Alas, you just didn’t catch up with the good times. If you had come ten years earlier, the reward for publishing an Ann.Math article would have been at least 500,000. Now the reward is not allowed to be so high, what a pity. "

Chen Zhuoyang's casual remark immediately warmed Qiao Yu's heart, and he subconsciously asked, "So much? Does the school have so much bonus to give out?"

Chen Zhuoyang curled his lips and said, "You really are worrying about this for the school? Other schools may not have money, but can our school be without money? Can our Mathematical Research Center be without money? Besides, this is not all the school's bonus, right? The school awards part of it, and the Mathematical Research Center also has rewards.

As long as you can publish two papers, it doesn't have to be in top journals like Ann.Math. At the end of the year, you can apply for an academic innovation award and get all the scholarships you can, including national scholarships, president's scholarships, college scholarships, dean's scholarships... It's easy to win hundreds of thousands or even millions of dollars in prize money a year.

By the way, you must remember that all the above scholarships can be applied for together with other scholarships. Some of them just require teaching assistantship, so you definitely qualify! Just help the teacher teach a few classes and that will be OK!
In short, as long as you are good enough, don't hesitate to ask our school for help. Compared with worrying about insufficient scholarships, our school is more worried that there are not enough qualified and outstanding students to get these scholarships!
Especially the paper award, the school is so happy to give it! The unit of your paper published in SCI is our Yanbei University, which means reputation for the school, you know? Not to mention that you published it in Ann.Math, go and see how many papers Yanbei University can publish in the four top journals in a year? "

The 200,000 yuan reward promised by my high school alma mater for participating in IMO and winning the gold medal suddenly didn’t seem so attractive anymore.

Qiao Yu even felt that he had gone a little too far.

Compared to the wealth of Yanbei University, how much money does Xingtie No. 1 High School make in a year? How could he be so useless as to stare at the little money of his high school alma mater?
The value of Lao Xue’s suggestions is still increasing rapidly...

Yanbei University is not only capable of handling tasks, but also responsible for money!

Of course, the same is true for Huaqing University across the street. The two top universities in China are not short of money. It is impossible for Yanbei University to be so generous while Huaqing University next door is stingy in this regard.

So, if he can get millions from the school by publishing two papers in a year, then if he publishes ten papers a year, wouldn't he get at least several million? And the school is happy to give it to him? A perfect win-win situation?
Qiao Yu felt as if the door to a new world was slowly opening to him. He had been too petty before.

The most important point is that Qiao Yu thinks that once you master the trick of writing a paper, it is not difficult. As long as you find the hot issues that the world mathematics community is concerned about, it is not difficult to publish even in a top journal.

And as long as he completes the tasks assigned by the tutor... No, as long as he keeps producing results, how can the tutor remember what tasks he has? He can discuss it with Old Xue if he has nothing to do.

"As expected! Senior Brother Chen, I knew that if I didn't understand something, I would just ask you directly. You really are the know-it-all in our Mathematical Research Center!"

Thinking of this, Qiao Yu expressed his sincere gratitude.

Chen Zhuoyang was stunned for a moment, and suddenly he didn't want to talk anymore. There was no way, every time Qiao Yu thanked him, he felt like Qiao Yu was cursing him, and the curse was very dirty.

How could he, a PhD from a genuine mathematical research center, become a know-it-all?

It seems like he doesn't do his job every day, but just gossips...

Of course, if he really achieved something remarkable, he probably wouldn’t feel anything. The key is that he doesn’t feel anything.

In this world, the truth always breaks people's defenses so easily.

He must eat two more chicken legs at night...

……

He generously treated Senior Brother Chen to a meal, then returned to his room, spread out the manuscript paper and began to think about the topic that his senior teacher had assigned to him.

It is shown that on a given commutative heap, all global functions can be described by endomorphisms of the Whittaker sheaf, and that the structure of these endomorphisms is directly related to the representation of algebraic groups…

Well, it's a bit difficult... But if it's solved, it won't hinder him from making money...

Even this should make money...

He has been very busy recently. He has to attend a conference next month and IMO in July, so he doesn't have much time to do anything.

He couldn't let this collaborative project take up too much of his time.

Qiao Yu felt a little bored after sitting in his seat for an hour or two without any ideas.

I simply put this question aside, opened the software and prepared to start writing the paper.

If he couldn't solve this problem, he could just come up with an outline for his paper on Qiao Dian first.

First, we analyze the local structure of the singular point, then construct the homology mapping, explain the influence of nonlinear homology mapping, give the definition of the singular point of this ridge structure, and the local coordinate ring Ox produces infinite levels of high-order perturbations...

Ok……

Wait, while still thinking about writing this paper, Qiao Yu suddenly had an idea...

The representation of algebraic groups can be characterized by functional behaviors at different levels, and the endomorphisms of Whittaker layers are consistent with the representation of algebraic groups in a certain sense.

So if he uses concepts from group representation theory to reconstruct the endomorphic structure of the Whittaker layer, it seems that he can also apply it to the reconstruction process near the singularity.

Because if it can be proved that on a specific commutative stack, the endomorphisms of the Whittaker layer can not only describe the function locally, but also be valid on the entire geometric space through some global extension method, then aren't these endomorphisms the bridge he is looking for?
This bridge is locally ensured by the properties of the Whittaker layer, and globally enables the reconstruction of the complete function space.

If this idea is feasible, then wouldn't he have really solved the problem he picked out from the proof of the geometric Langlands conjecture?
What kind of math is this? Mathematics in a circle?

He had just wanted to think about the two-dimensional generalization of Hua Qing's Chevalier theorem, but when he couldn't figure it out, he thought about working out an outline for his paper on the singularity he had discovered. As a result, when he had only drafted half of the outline, his inspiration went straight to solving the geometric Langlands conjecture?

Did the boast he made at the lecture yesterday come true? Doesn't that mean he is a little more awesome than Fermat?

Speaking of this situation...should he call Professor Pan first?
　The 41st day of the 10,000-word check-in is completed!
　　
　
(End of this chapter)