From University Lecturer to Chief Academician

Xihai University has become the focus of domestic colleges and universities. The news that they recruited a large number of algebraic geometry talents in a short period of time was even posted on the Internet, which aroused heated discussions in public opinion.

Many people discussed that Xihai University "obtained inside information in advance", which means that the competition is very unfair.

In the end, Wang Hao sent a message, turning the topic into pure gossip. The message he sent was only a few words, "I am a teacher at Xihai University."

In a word, the explanation is clear.

Wang Hao is a faculty member of Xihai University, and the university will naturally report any results. It is normal for Xihai University to get news in advance.

In addition, his research has greatly enhanced the status of algebraic geometry scholars and broadened the employment scope of talents in this field. He has created a new field, rather than competing with other universities.

The depression of other colleges and universities can only be understood as envy and hatred. If they have achieved similar results, it is impossible to tell other colleges and universities publicly.

This also involves a question of whether the results are correct or not.

What if the research is wrong?

If the news is revealed in advance, it will definitely be very embarrassing at that time. Normally, it is impossible for the research to be revealed in advance before it is published.

Other colleges and universities should be envious of Xihai University having Wang Hao, rather than envying them for getting the news in advance and recruiting a large number of algebraic geometry talents.

However, the recruited talents still need to be appeased. Just after signing the contract with Xihai University, I knew that my value had doubled suddenly, and my mentality would definitely be affected.

The Faculty of Science of Xihai University also organized an internal meeting.

The algebraic geometry people who had just been recruited into the school were all in attendance.

At the meeting, Wang Hao announced a news, which also stabilized everyone's mentality, "Now I have a news, everyone should not disclose it, because it is still uncertain."

Although Wang Hao said that he was not sure, it was actually confirmed, but it was not announced.

He continued, "The Joint Science and Technology Department of Northern Xinjiang Province is preparing to establish a large-scale high-temperature superconducting material research center in Xihai City."

"The faculty and staff of Xihai University have the opportunity to work in the research center and participate in the research and development of high-temperature superconducting materials."

"In the future, a high-temperature superconducting material company affiliated to the Science and Technology Department will be established, that is, a large-scale enterprise will be invested to support the development of superconducting technology."

"Whether it is a research center or a superconducting company, it is based on our research."

"So, in two aspects, the faculty and staff of Xihai University are given priority to participate..."

Wang Hao spoke carefully.

This is the confirmed news, which is to expand research on high-temperature superconducting materials around the "W1 type" element combination he provided.

Because there is already a basic theoretical support, the research on new high-temperature superconducting materials does not rely on a large number of experiments, but most of the work is theoretical calculation work, which requires a lot of talents in the field of algebraic geometry.

Almost all the algebraic geometry talents recruited by Xihai University have joined the new research.

This is obviously very attractive.

Large-scale research on high-temperature superconducting materials will basically not have financial troubles, and the participants will also receive more subsidies. Simply put, they can make more money.

Scholars also have living needs.

They came to Xihai University and got a very high placement fee. It must be very attractive to be able to get a relatively high salary and participate in cutting-edge technology research.

After the meeting, Wang Hao and Yan Fu walked all the way, also talking about the development of the School of Science.

Xihai University has recruited so many algebraic geometry talents in one go, and naturally hopes to develop algebraic geometry as the core subject in the future.

Among the algebraic geometry talents they recruited, some are excellent doctoral graduates, and some have already achieved certain results.

However, compared with the world's top algebraic geometry experts, they still have a gap.

Now Xihai University still lacks a "leader" in the field of algebraic geometry, and if there is a real leader, the teaching resources of algebraic geometry can compete with Capital University.

So where do the leaders come from?

"Katchel!"

Wang Hao immediately thought of Birkar. He had always hoped that Birkar would come to Xihai University to work, but he felt that he couldn't open his mouth all the time.

Compared with the environment of Mizuki University, the city where Mizuki University is located, Xihai University is indeed much worse.

Wang Hao asked, "Principal Yan, if Bill Carr comes to Xihai University, will the school accommodate it?"

He refers to issues such as salary and treatment.

In fact, the university is like a company, and Bill Carr is like a big star in the company. The salary of a big star must be different from that of ordinary employees.

However, the salary of big stars is too high, which may also cause dissatisfaction among ordinary employees, and it will also bring some negative pressure.

Yan Fu thought for a while, nodded and said, "No matter what pressure there is, I will resist it!"

"That's good."

Wang Hao nodded. He felt that it was time to find an opportunity to test Birkar's tone.

...

soon.

"New Advances in Mathematics" released a new issue, with three papers on it, which were publicized in advance.

These include Luo Dayong's "Structure Logic of Complex Geometry Decomposition and Reduction", Birkar's "Description of High-Dimensional Node Graphs' Inverse Composite Method", and Lin Bohan's "Trend from Topology to Semi-Topology Definition".

The main thesis of semi-topology, "Analysis of Semi-topology of Microscopic Forms in Conductors", can be understood on the basis of understanding the three auxiliary papers.

Some top scholars in the world have already understood the content of "Semi-Topological Analysis of Microscopic Forms in Conductors", but it is still very difficult to understand all of them.

For the time being, only Wang Hao understands "Semi-Topological Analysis of Microscopic Forms in Conductors", mainly because the content involved is too complicated and esoteric, and it involves too many fields of knowledge.

After the content of the thesis is determined by some institutions, many scholars realize the complexity and importance of the research, and they hope to conduct follow-up research, but they find that it is necessary to form a team.

It can't just be a small team, because the research involves many disciplines, and even includes the content related to the superconducting experiment. It is very difficult to understand all of them. There must be results.

At this time, many scholars realized the power of Wang Hao.

It is not easy for a mathematician to win the Fields Medal.

But the difficulty of winning the Fields Medal is definitely not as difficult as organizing mathematicians from different disciplines to complete a multi-disciplinary mixed cutting-edge research.

The organizer must have a very good understanding of each discipline, and be able to connect several disciplines together, and control the main direction of the research, and then achieve certain results, which is absolutely remarkable.

In terms of mathematical research, algebraic geometry is often algebraic geometry, differential equations are differential equations, and number theory is number theory.

Don't say that too many disciplines are mixed together, even if only two disciplines are mixed together, it will make the research very complicated.

So how did Wang Hao do it?

Other scholars were very curious. At the same time, there were speculations that Wang Hao knew every subject very well. Whether it was algebraic geometry or topology, he had in-depth research to connect various subjects together.

This claim was immediately refuted.

The problem is --

"If Wang Hao is very proficient in every subject, why doesn't he complete the research by himself? Why does he need to cooperate with others?"

"In addition, Wang Hao has no top international achievements in algebraic geometry and topology."

"Every one of his collaborators can come up with a top-level mathematical research, which shows that they have made great contributions to the research."

Opinions vary.

Of course, most scholars do not care about how the research is done, nor whether they can fully understand the content of the research. They only need to know that the content is correct.

Many institutions have begun to study the superconducting critical temperature of the combination of two elements based on the new results.

This is a completely new direction, an unexplored direction, and it is likely to be a very valuable direction.

When they were ready to do so, they found that a large number of algebraic geometry experts were needed to participate in the work, and scholars in the field of algebraic geometry quickly became scarce talents.

Algebraic geometry is a small field, not to mention engaged in the research of algebraic geometry, even the doctoral students who come from algebraic geometry are a minority.

Because the number of people trained in the past is very small, when the number of people required for research is very large, talents in the field will naturally become scarce talents.

Soon, a very strange phenomenon occurred in the world. For example, a university lecturer in algebraic geometry was promoted to associate professor or professor at once, as if he was afraid of being poached by other universities and institutions.

Some lecturers in the field of algebraic geometry are invited by other institutions to participate in research work.

For ordinary colleges and universities, a doctoral supervisor in algebraic geometry can be found, and some colleges and universities do not even have a master's or doctoral program in this direction.

In short, the value of scholars who work in the field of algebraic geometry has doubled.

Even if it is placed in the market, the supply has become in short supply, because many companies related to materials have begun to invest in related research.

Now everyone knows that superconducting technology is likely to usher in a take-off, and top-level large companies will naturally make plans in advance. Even if a lot of investment may be lost, it is much stronger than losing competitiveness in the future without any investment. .

With a heavyweight status in the field of algebraic geometry, Birkar became very 'sought-for'.

Fields winners are of course very sought-after, but Bill Carr has never felt the current enthusiasm. He has received a lot of invitations from top foreign institutions.

But Birkar refused all of them, because he had found a clear direction-to simplify the research.

The semi-topological research they did together is very complicated, especially the part involving algebraic expression of geometric figures, which is also the main reason for the computational complexity.

Simplifying the research results is the main direction of future research.

This research can be done for a lifetime.

Birkar's research in this area has also been carefully considered, because he is no longer young, and it is very difficult to do a new research by himself and produce results.

Research in this direction is actually an extension of his new achievements.

"The Inverse Composite Method for Describing High-Dimensional Node Graphics", to understand it simply, is to use geometric figures to deduce algebraic equations in reverse, but the content is much more complicated.

If you can continue to in-depth research and simplify the process of "reverse compounding", you can simplify the main research, then the subsequent calculations will definitely be relatively simple.

It's not just an advance in mathematics, it's also an advance in the physics of superconductivity.

One progress, two directions of benefit, research is naturally very valuable.

Birkar also likes research in this area very much. He has done the work he likes, so naturally he will not think about other content.

This research also appears to be very high, big, and high.

At present, in the whole world, he is the only one who is qualified to continue the research for the time being, because he is an important participant in the main research, and no one knows better than him the inverse compound method of transforming graphs into algebraic equations.

At this time, Birkar had returned to Shuimu University.

He made up his mind to continue the research, and even though the new results were just published, he began to think about it constantly.

After a long time, Birkar found that he lacked inspiration, and when he looked at his "Reverse Composite Method for Describing High-Dimensional Node Graphs", he had an incredible surprise, "This is what I researched. ?”

"Why was I such a genius at the time? But now I feel that it is not easy to understand?"

"Where did my inspiration go?"

"Or, it's because I can think of a lot of things with Wang Hao and a real genius, and the surrounding..."

Birkar looked around in a daze, and found that there was not even a single person who could communicate with him.

He really regarded Qiu Chengwen as a friend, otherwise he would not insist on coming to Shuimu University to work. Qiu Chengwen's main direction is differential geometry, which is also related to algebraic geometry.

Birkar went to Qiu Chengwen, and discussed some complex issues with Qiu Cheng, and finally aroused Qiu Chengwen's series of admiration, "Your research is really ingenious."

"It is easy to deduce geometry from algebraic equations, but it is incredible to deduce algebraic equations from geometry!"

Qiu Chengwen was full of admiration.

Birkar felt very disappointed, because he wanted to discuss the issue with Qiu Chengwen, but Qiu Chengwen just admired and couldn't say anything.

Later he couldn't help asking, "Mr. Qiu, we are friends, aren't we?"

"certainly."

Qiu Chengwen affirmed, "Although there is a twenty-year age gap between us, I have always regarded you as a friend, a very good friend."

"me too."

Birkar nodded firmly, "Then can you give me an opinion? I've been thinking recently, should I go to Xihai University to work..."

Qiu Chengwen was dumbfounded.

Birkar and him are friends, so I asked him, should I leave Shuimu University and work at Xihai University?

So what advice should he give?

...

Xihai University.

Wang Hao is in his office, accepting an exclusive interview with a reporter from the Central Committee. He talked about the latest achievements, and then expressed his views on several issues of public concern.

"Up to now, this research can be said to have solved the mystery of the superconducting critical temperature to a certain extent. Our research associates the critical temperature with the elemental composition, but the calculation is relatively complicated."

"The next step is not just what we can do. The whole world needs to conduct research together. The goal is to study all the combinations of two elements and the corresponding superconducting critical temperature."

"This is an important step forward in research."

"Theoretically, the higher the number of elements, the higher the superconducting critical temperature, but the corresponding calculation is more complicated."

"The two-element combination and the three-element combination are related to a certain extent, such as hydrogen and oxygen. Putting the two elements together can calculate their corresponding superconducting critical temperature."

"If a carbon element is added to it, then we can study the superconducting critical temperature corresponding to the combination of carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen based on the three combinations of carbon and hydrogen, oxygen and carbon, and hydrogen and oxygen."

"I think the next step is to carry out more international cooperation, establish a database of superconducting element combinations, and share the research results, because this kind of research is impossible for any institution, and data sharing is necessary. .”

After Wang Hao's brief introduction, the reporter asked how long it would take to make a breakthrough in superconducting material technology.

This is what the public cares about.

Ordinary people naturally don't care about theoretical research. What they care about is whether superconducting material technology can achieve breakthroughs and when superconducting technology can be popularized on a large scale.

Wang Hao shook his head and said, "In fact, we are preparing to do research on superconducting materials, and so are many international institutions."

"However, it is still hard to say when we will be able to develop high-temperature superconducting materials that can be widely used on a large scale."

"I personally think that it should take a long time..."

The reporter asked, "Can you give a specific time?"

"specific……"

Wang Hao shook his head and said with a smile, "This question is a bit embarrassing for you." He thought for a while and continued, "Okay, then let me tell you, I think it will take at least a year to produce results."

He added later, "One year is still too little, let's expand the time frame to two years. If there is no result by then, don't blame me. I mainly do theoretical research."

The reporters were stunned.

a year?

very long?

He just heard Wang Hao say that it took a long time, and he thought it would take ten or eight years, but he heard the figure of one year, and if it was extended, it would only be two years.

The reporter tugged at the corners of his mouth and muttered in his heart, "Could it be that our concept of time is different?"

...

In response to such a major achievement in the field of superconductivity, the Ministry of Science and Technology held an internal meeting.

Zhao Enshun presided over the meeting and quickly reached an agreement to establish a research center for high-temperature superconducting materials.

This is also the first high-temperature superconducting material research center that is really planned to be established.

Previous research on high-temperature superconducting materials has always been a project set up by the Science Foundation or other scientific research funding departments, rather than establishing a large-scale center for research.

Now it is obviously aimed at the latest achievements, hoping to develop high-temperature superconducting materials that can be used in the industrial field.

The Ministry of Science and Technology announced plans soon.

The publicity of this plan has a great impact, which is equivalent to announcing that a large investment will be made in the research of superconducting materials that can be used in industry.

According to the interpretation of many media, the establishment of an institution specializing in the study of high-temperature superconducting materials is the recognition of new theoretical research by the superiors, which can support the development of superconducting materials required for industrial production.

This is also the first step in the large-scale popularization of superconducting technology.

Xihai University has become the focus of public opinion again, because the new large institution was established in Xihai City, and there is no doubt that it is targeting Xihai University.

Although the new research center is directly under the jurisdiction of the Science and Technology Department, it must have the most cooperation with Xihai University. It must have considered Wang Hao when it was established in Xihai City. Considering that Xihai University is the birthplace of the theory. is the beneficiary and is likely to be an important participant.

At the same time, Wang Hao also received good news.

The list of candidates for the co-election of academicians in the new year has been released.

Among them is his name.

He was nominated and recommended by several academicians, and also recommended by several institutions, including Xihai University, the Science and Technology Department of Beijiang Province, and even the Science Foundation.

Just judging from the recommended individuals and institutions, Wang Hao was nominated as a co-opted academician of the Department of Mathematical Physics, which can be said to be well-received.

The news even made it to the hot searches.

Many people have already expected Wang Hao to be an academician, because his achievements and contributions, as well as the honors he has received personally, are much higher than ordinary academicians.

Wang Hao knew that he had been nominated, but he was only slightly looking forward to it. The academician title was just icing on the cake for him.

Now his status in the academic world is much higher than that of ordinary academicians.

Wang Hao is more concerned about the upcoming International Conference on Superconducting Materials and Mechanisms. He was invited to give a research report and participate in the follow-up work.

The International Conference on Superconducting Materials and Mechanisms is jointly initiated and organized by the discoverer of high-temperature superconductors of cuprate oxides and Nobel Prize winners Georg Bednolz and Karl Müller. It will be held every three years.

The conferences in previous years were not attractive, and they were only similar to ordinary academic conferences. Experts in superconducting related fields discussed the research of superconducting mechanism and theory together.

During the conference, some public results and academic reports will be published.

This year is different.

Wang Hao's latest research has directly related the superconducting critical temperature and element composition. His report has attracted international attention, and naturally many scholars came to participate in the conference.

At that time, many international organizations will send teams to participate.

In addition, follow-up work is also very important.

The National Research Center for Condensed Matter Physics is preparing to lead the establishment of an international organization on superconductivity, and the establishment of the organization will be announced at the conference.

In the follow-up, we will discuss international cooperation, data sharing and other aspects together.

Because superconducting technology is so important, it is directly related to the competitive development of future science and technology, and the theory is researched and made public in China.

China also hopes to lead the newly established international superconducting organization and control the data related to the progress of superconducting research, so that it can always be in an advantageous position in the development of superconducting technology.

This is of course not easy to do.

Therefore, there is likely to be a battle of dragons and tigers in the follow-up of the meeting, and it is hard to say what the specific situation will be.

Wang Hao is not interested in organizing, nor does he want to participate in complicated 'battles', but he is very interested in making reports.

Because he is already preparing to conduct research on high-temperature superconducting materials——

【Task 2】

[Research project name: Superconducting materials based on 'W1-type' element combinations (difficulty: S). 】

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