Xueba's life simulator

Chapter 184 Ideas (811 911)

Zhou Ming was on the 27th, the day when the summer camp of the School of Mathematics of the University of Science and Technology of China ended, and he thought that there would not be too many things in August. On the 29th, he received a call notification.

On August 12th, at the opening ceremony of the 14th Annual Conference of Huaguo Industrial and Applied Mathematics held in Tanxiang City, Shonan Province, the [-]th Su Buqing Applied Mathematics Award will be awarded.

And the call notification was to ask Zhou Ming if he had time to attend the opening ceremony and receive the Su Buqing Applied Mathematics Award.

The Su Buqing Applied Mathematics Award was established by the Huaguo Society of Industrial and Applied Mathematics, and the purpose of this award is to reward industrial and applied mathematics that have made outstanding contributions to the application of mathematics to economic, technological and social development It is also to encourage and promote the development of Huaguo's industrial and applied mathematics work.

People from the Huaguo Society of Industrial and Applied Mathematics naturally know Zhou Ming's name, and they have also heard that Zhou Ming refused to go to the Crafford Awards ceremony in Sweden this year because he was too busy, and the Royal Swedish Academy also held a special event for Zhou Ming. Online awards ceremony.

People from the Huaguo Society of Industrial and Applied Mathematics have also heard about the research results in biology, especially synthetic biology, and the super beans researched by Zhou Ming at the beginning of the year.

Therefore, when they contacted Zhou Ming, they specifically told Zhou Ming that if they were too busy to come to the awards ceremony in Shonan to receive the award, they could also mail the award certificate to him directly, and the bonus would go directly to him. on the card.

This service can be said to be very considerate.

And everyone has talked about this, and they are so considerate of him. Although Zhou Ming doesn't really want to run around outside in this hot day, he is too embarrassed to say no, so he agrees to go to the awards ceremony.

The Su Buqing Applied Mathematics Award established by the Huaguo Society of Industrial and Applied Mathematics in October 2003 is different from the Su Buqing Award established by the International Federation of Industrial and Applied Mathematics in July 10.

The Su Buqing Award aims to reward individuals who have made outstanding contributions to the application of mathematics to economic take-off and human development, and is awarded every four years.

It is selected by an ad hoc international award committee, one person at a time, and the prize is 1000 US dollars, which is not even 1 yuan when converted into RMB.

If this does not include round-trip transportation expenses, accommodation expenses, and food expenses, I am afraid that if I go to an awards ceremony, the prize money I get will not be enough for the round-trip expenses.

The bonus of the Su Buqing Applied Mathematics Award is exclusively funded by the Higher Education Press, and since 2010, the bonus for each winner is 10 yuan.

If the Su Buqing Applied Mathematics Award had the same prize money as the Su Buqing Award, without 1 yuan, in this hot weather, even if the Huaguo Society of Industrial and Applied Mathematics said it best, Zhou Ming would probably not go.

On this day, Zhou Ming also received a call from Zhang Mingjie. The application of the Institute of Life Sciences has been approved. Its full name is "Luzhou Institute of Life Sciences" and the venue has been selected. It is estimated that it will be held soon. Started building.

This is faster than expected. If we follow this speed, we don't have to wait until the next year. Around this time next year, the Institute of Life Sciences should be completed.

Seeing that the approval came down so quickly, Zhou Ming said to Zhang Mingjie: "Academician Zhang, there are some things that I can't explain on the phone. Are you at school now? How about I go find you?"

"I'm free now, come on. If I'm not free, I won't call you." Zhang Mingjie also knows that Zhou Ming has some ideas of his own about this life science research, and wants to hear Zhou Ming's specific ideas. view.

However, since he only mentioned one thing last time, he didn't apply for it yet, and whether it can be built is still a matter of discussion, so Zhou Ming didn't say anything more about this matter.

Now that the above has been approved, some things must be clarified.

Not long after, Zhou Ming came to Zhang Mingjie's office, and there was not only Zhang Mingjie in Zhang Mingjie's office, but also a middle-aged man whom Zhou Ming didn't know.

"Hello, Professor Zhou, I'm Secretary Zhao's secretary, surnamed Sun." After seeing Zhou Ming, the middle-aged man said to Zhou Ming, and extended his hand to shake Zhou Ming's hand.

It turned out that the middle-aged man was the secretary of Secretary Zhao in Luzhou City.

"Hello."

When Zhou Ming attended the meeting about building a science and technology city in Luzhou City last time, although he saw Secretary Zhao in Luzhou City, he had never seen the secretary next to Secretary Zhao, so he simply said Well, not paying too much attention to him.

"This Secretary Sun was arranged by the city to communicate with us about the Institute of Life Sciences. What does Professor Zhou think of the Institute of Life Sciences?"

Zhang Mingjie first asked Zhou Ming to sit down and poured him a glass of water. When passing the water to Zhou Ming, he first explained to him the situation of Secretary Sun, and then asked Zhou Ming.

Not long after the summer camp at the Mathematical Academy ended yesterday, Li Mingzhi called Zhang Mingjie and said that Zhou Ming had already confirmed the graduate students for the summer camp at the Mathematical Academy, and was ready to determine the topics for the graduate students.

What else did he say? Zhou Ming said that he would train several masters of mathematics for the School of Mathematics.

In the first half of the year, Zhou Ming produced a lot of research results in the School of Life Sciences, but there has been little movement in the School of Mathematics since he solved Goldbach's conjecture at the beginning of the year.

And because of Zhou Ming, the deans of two different colleges, Li Zhizhi and Zhang Mingjie, who didn't communicate much before, had more opportunities to communicate.

I heard Zhang Mingjie talk about Zhou Ming's work at the School of Life Sciences for half a year, which made Li Mingzhi feel that their School of Mathematical Sciences seemed to be overwhelmed by the School of Life Sciences.

Now that they have a chance to raise their heads, Li Mingzhi naturally wants to have a good talk with Zhang Mingjie.

Now there is a faint sense of competition between the two sides of the Academy of Numerology and the Academy of Life Sciences, but this kind of competition is also manifested between Zhang Mingjie and Li Zhizhi, both deans who are academicians.

And Zhang Mingjie just heard Li Zhizhi's show off yesterday, and now he heard Zhou Ming say that he has some ideas about the Life Science Research Institute that has been approved by the above, Zhang Mingjie naturally wants to know what he has.

"First of all, if we want to make Huaguo University of Science and Technology, or at least our School of Life Sciences of USTC, into a world-class discipline, the Institute of Life Sciences cannot operate like other domestic institutes."

Zhou Ming said to Zhang Mingjie.

"What is Professor Zhou going to do then?" Zhang Mingjie asked Zhou Ming.

Regarding the other research institutes in China that Zhou Ming mentioned, Zhang Mingjie naturally knew what he meant.

There are many research institutes in China, and different research institutes can be said to be very different. There is a huge gap between the Beijing-Shanghai Institute of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the non-Beijing-Shanghai Institute, and even the institutes in the capital, let alone There are some differences between the research institutes of some enterprises and the research institutes of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.

Many research institutes are related to schools, and there is a big gap between different school research institutes.

Just talk about the scientific research of Tsinghua University and the two western universities, which are not comparable at all.

And there are many research institutes of schools, which actually build a building next to the school, and then hire some researchers to do research, and some may even take a teaching position in the nearby university.

If the same is true for the University of Science and Technology, then this institute will not be of much help to the University of Science and Technology and the School of Life Sciences.

If you want to achieve mutual success, such an approach is definitely not feasible.

Just like a postdoctorate, its full name is a postdoctoral research station, which is not a higher degree than a doctorate, but a job, which is equivalent to a position.

Moreover, this job is temporary and can only be done for two years.

If you do not get a fixed scientific research position after graduating from your Ph.D., but you still want to learn something further, you can apply to be a postdoctoral fellow.

Just like the life science institute that the School of Life Sciences of the University of Science and Technology of China has applied to build, if it is built in the same way as other school research institutes in China, it will eventually allow some doctoral graduates of the University of Science and Technology to enter it to do research and become a postdoctoral site.

In other words, this institute recruits graduate students separately and becomes a separate graduate school. In Zhou Ming's opinion, this is definitely not possible.

Zhou Ming didn't object to this, but said that it couldn't be the only situation.

“My thinking is that this institute should not just be another graduate school of our school, or just a postdoctoral site, it should also have some extra undergraduates.

Let undergraduates have more hands-on opportunities, and cultivate their ability to do scientific research from the first year.

If this expectation is followed, our School of Life Sciences can send a relevant notice to freshmen when the school starts in September.

Of course, these are just my personal thoughts, and I also refer to the operation mode of some foreign research institutes.

The domestic conditions are different, and the specific development in the future should also be based on the actual situation. "

Zhou Ming explained to Zhang Mingjie.

After Zhang Mingjie heard what Zhou Ming said, he also began to think.

After a while, Zhang Mingjie said to Zhou Ming: "Well... I probably understand what you mean.

This institute can still be used as a post-doctoral site, and it can also recruit some excellent doctoral and master students as usual, as well as some excellent undergraduates.

In this way, postdoctoral students who already have enough scientific research experience can help those doctoral students with less scientific research ability and master students who have not been doing scientific research for a long time.

In addition, those master and doctoral students who are seniors have a lot more scientific research experience than those freshmen who have just entered the campus, and they can also teach them some basic scientific research knowledge and take them to do experiments.

Using the old-to-new model can not only quickly cultivate a group of people who can do experiments, but also cultivate the ability of doctors to lead people to do scientific research? "

"That's right. In the beginning, a supervisor could lead a few doctoral students and some master students, and those first-year undergraduates could be used as interns to do some basic work. If there are not enough skilled people, recruit Some postdocs work as assistants.

If there are excellent postdoctoral fellows, you can also try to let them do projects alone and lead students. "

Zhou Ming nodded and explained to Zhang Mingjie.

"However, this method sounds like no problem, but it is not that simple in practice.

A series of things such as funds, personnel, experimental equipment, and experimental safety are likely to encounter problems. "

As an old scientific researcher, Zhang Mingjie was a little worried about the plan that Zhou Ming mentioned. After all, he had participated in many scientific research projects and conducted many experiments.

Therefore, he knew that no matter how well planned in advance, manpower is sometimes poor and it is impossible to cover everything.

Sometimes many problems can only be encountered during the actual experiment. Zhang Mingjie said this to Zhou Ming because he thought he knew more about many situations during the experiment than Zhou Ming.

"No matter what is difficult, we first have a general plan, and then if we encounter any difficulties in the actual implementation process, we will find a way to solve it.

If we never take this step, the difficulties will never be resolved. "

Zhou Ming said.

After Zhou Ming finished speaking, Zhang Mingjie first looked at Zhou Ming, and then at Secretary Sun who was silent all the time. From his facial expression, it could be seen that Zhang Mingjie was a little hesitant at this time.

In the end, Zhang Mingjie seemed to have made up his mind, looked at Zhou Ming again, and said to him: "Okay, anyway, you are the director of this research institute, so you can do everything according to your ideas, and you can do whatever you want .

However, I still have to tell you that as soon as the higher-ups heard that you would be the director of this institute, they planned to make it one of the research units of national key projects, so you must not be careless.

Your current reputation and the high opinion of you above are all due to your research and development at a speed beyond ordinary people this year and the fact that you have never failed.

Once you take a wrong step, the higher authorities probably won't trust you so unconditionally as they do now.

At that time, although they don't say that they will definitely reject some of the things you proposed, they will definitely consider the possibility of failure. "

Zhou Ming knew that what Zhang Mingjie said was from the perspective of someone who had experienced it, and they were all sincere words, so Zhou Ming could readily accept them.

"Academician Zhang, don't worry, I will take it step by step in a down-to-earth manner.

As for the funding and experimental equipment, I am not worried about this. If the project or the research institute runs out of money, I can pay for it.

As for the human problem, this requires the help of HKUST.

As for the issue of experimental safety, this is a problem no matter which laboratory, what we can do is to strictly manage this aspect.

Since the interns are mainly drawn from the undergraduates of the University of Science and Technology, it is also necessary for the school to always emphasize the issue of experimental safety from the freshman year.

Of course, the Institute will definitely pay special attention to this point. "

Zhou Ming also said to Zhang Mingjie solemnly.

After hearing these guarantees from Zhou Ming, Zhang Mingjie also nodded, and continued to say to Zhou Ming: "After the school starts in September, the school will issue two notices, one is the internship document of the Institute of Life Sciences next year, and the other is about Experiment with safe things.

In addition, when the time comes, our college will also tell the school again, and try to see if the whole school can strengthen the issue of experiment safety again.

However, when the school starts, the formulation of this internship document still needs your participation. After all, you are the director, and the interns have to work hours every week, as well as the hourly salary of the interns. These all need to be determined by you.

This is the funding issue I am talking about. Once the institute is established, not only the interns need money, but also the experimental equipment, and more importantly, the talents also need money. The more outstanding talents need to spend more money. "

At the end, Zhang Mingjie smiled instead, because since Zhou Ming said to leave the money to him, let him do it.

After all, Zhou Ming probably knows how profitable his company is.

(End of this chapter)