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Wei Xingsi continued: Another thing is that our research group has received an invitation from the MRS Spring conference in the beautiful country, and we will give a speech at the conference in April next year...

MRS Spring Conference? Xu Qiu asked curiously. He now knows more about journal literature, but he knows almost nothing about these domestic and international conferences, because he has no channels to obtain such information.

Wei Xingsi shook his hand, motioning Xu Qiu to look at his computer screen, which was the promotional interface of next year's MRS Spring Conference.

Afterwards, Wei Xingsi patiently explained while dragging the mouse:

The MRS conference is the top international academic conference in the field of materials science. Every year, the organizer invites experts from various fields in the field of materials science to report. Its full name is 'Materials Research Society', which is the beautiful country Materials Science Research Association. There will be two annual meetings, one in the spring and one in the fall, hence the names 'MRS Spring' and 'MRS Fall' meetings respectively.

The next spring meeting will be in early April next year, and the venue will be Phoenix (Phoenix), Arizona, a beautiful country. The meeting will last for six days.

The scope of the MRS conference is very broad, with several large sections, including fields with recent broad impact, characterization and modeling, electronics and optics, energy and sustainable development, nanomaterials and quantum materials, soft and biomaterials, structural Materials, etc., like ours, belong to the 'energy and sustainable development' sector, which can be subdivided into dozens of subdivisions.

Want to participate in the MRS conference, the proportion of scholars directly invited by the host is very small, and most of them apply by themselves, which are divided into three categories.

The first category is only going to listen to the report. This kind of person only needs to pay a registration fee. For students, it is relatively cheap. I remember that it is 150 dollars per person. For teachers, the fee will be more expensive, a few hundred more , nearly 1,000 dollars, therefore, before I met someone who didn’t pay the money and just went to the meeting, the key was discovered later, and the registration fee was paid.”

Having said this, Wei Xingsi laughed, and after a while, he continued:

The second category is those who plan to report at the conference. You can submit an abstract to the organizer, similar to a paper submission. The organizer will select some of the submissions and give them the opportunity to report. However, this kind of self-applied Even if the report is passed, there will not be too long a report time, usually only 15 minutes.

The last category is poster submission, which is similar to report submission. You can summarize your work on a poster and then submit it to the MRS organizer. The organizer will also select some of them. There will be poster exchanges and posters. Awards.

When I was working at NREL in the beautiful country, I would attend this conference twice a year, but I didn't participate as an invited scholar, but signed up by myself. This time, I was honored by you and became an invited scholar. Scholars, you have half an hour to report, and the topic is the ITIC series of molecules you developed.

Wei Xingsi suddenly turned his head and asked, By the way, Xu Qiu, why don't you give the MRS report this time?

I'll come... Xu Qiu hesitated for a while, then nodded in agreement, Okay.

Reporting at top international conferences is a rare opportunity to exercise. The most taboo thing in the scientific research circle is to work behind closed doors. With the deepening of research in the future, Xu Qiu will definitely communicate with colleagues more and more. Opportunities can exercise themselves, and he has no reason to back down.

Okay, I'll listen below when the time comes, and if there are any problems or emergencies, I'll help you. Wei Xingsi nodded in satisfaction.

Afterwards, Wei Xingsi asked another question: Besides you, I plan to bring another person in the group there. Who do you think is more suitable?

I still plan to bring another person, it seems a bit difficult...

There are now 13 people in the laboratory, except myself and four new undergraduates.

For the remaining eight people, Sun Wo, Duan Yun, and Mo Wenlin were the first to be ruled out. The first two were completely irrelevant to Xu Qiu's field, and the latter was from Gong Yuanjiang's side, so it would definitely not be appropriate to bring them there.

The rest of Wu Feifei, Chen Wanqing, Tian Qing, Wu Shengnan and Han Jiaying, if you don't think about it selfishly, it's really hard to choose...

Wu Feifei is the big housekeeper in the group, and this kind of good thing about going abroad must not rule her out directly;

Chen Wanqing is a veteran of organic photovoltaics in the group and cannot be ruled out;

Wu Shengnan is a postdoctoral fellow and one of the founders of the ITIC system, which cannot be ruled out;

Han Jiaying, who has a special status and is also one of the founders of the ITIC system, cannot be ruled out;

Tian Qing can also be considered to have something to do with organic photovoltaics, but in terms of priority, she is the lowest priority among the five people.

But even if Tian Qing is excluded, there are still four people left.

And the most important thing is that these four people are all girls...

If it is a girl, this involves the issue of booking a hotel.

The three of them must have booked two hotels. Considering the gender factor, Xu Qiu and Wei Xingsi could only share a room, and the girl alone.

Instead of this, why not bring another girl?

However, there is another problem to consider, that is, Teacher Wei may not be willing to share a room with me...

Thinking of this, Xu Qiu said: The candidates on my side, Wu Feifei, Chen Wanqing, Wu Shengnan, and Han Jiaying are all girls, it's just about accommodation...

Wei Xingsi was stunned for a moment, lost in thought, and said after a while: This is indeed a troublesome matter, because if I go to the beautiful country, I will also go to Bazan to make an interview report, and I will stay with them for about three days. Bazan at the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB).

Therefore, I will not attend the entire MRS conference. The two of us will definitely not live together, and there are only five-star hotels near the MRS conference venue, and the cheapest one costs more than 300 dollars a night. That is to say, it is best for you and The other person lives in a room. Wei Xingsi took a long breath and said, There are so many female students in the group, it's really troublesome, otherwise you and Han Jiaying...

Before Xu Qiu could react, Wei Xingsi shook his head again, denied his previous thoughts, and said, This is not very good, let's bring another one...well, just Wu Feifei and Han Jiaying, it's just right to bring Wu Feifei Also ask her to listen to lectures related to perovskite and thermoelectricity. Then you will live in a single room, and the two of them will live in a double room, what do you think?

Yes. Xu Qiu nodded, what Teacher Wei said was also reasonable, and it was still necessary to take Wu Feifei there.

As for the other candidate, from Xu Qiu's point of view, he definitely hopes to be a junior. He went to the beautiful country and spent more than a week. It is impossible to listen to the report all the time. That is equivalent to traveling abroad with the junior. Well.

Okay, Wei Xingsi nodded: Then organically, you can produce a PPT, which summarizes the recent work of ITIC, and for perovskite, I asked Wu Feifei to contribute a poster, so you can't go there empty-handed.

After a pause, Wei Xingsi continued: In addition, you are about to start applying for passports and visas. Passports are easy to talk about, you can get them first, and you can apply for them at the Exit-Entry Administration Bureau of Shanghai with your ID cards. As for visas, just It’s more troublesome. First, you have to wait for the passport to be issued, and then you need to prepare a series of materials. After I send your names to the MRS organizer, they will reply with an invitation letter, and you can use this invitation letter as a Let’s prepare visa materials based on the basics.”

Okay. Xu Qiu nodded.

Wei Xingsi took out a box of honey grapefruit tea from the refrigerator, handed it to Xu Qiu, and asked casually, How is the review of Joule going?

It's about 30% to 40% complete. The difficulty of writing this review is not too high. Xu Qiu responded.

It's easy for you, of course, it's mainly our work. Wei Xingsi smiled happily, and then said: By the way, I have listed the general framework for the key project, about the introduction of nitrogen atoms. See if there is anything to add.

After finishing speaking, Teacher Wei copied the file with a USB flash drive and handed it to Xu Qiu: There is nothing else, please call Wu Feifei over for me.

Xu Qiu returned to 216, walked to Wu Feifei's desk, tapped the table: Wu Feifei, Teacher Wei is looking for you.

Wu Feifei stopped her writing hands and raised her head: What is it?

Xu Qiu put it off on purpose: It's a good thing, you'll know it when it goes.

Wu Feifei showed a puzzled look: It's mysterious, what's the matter, I don't have any comments on the article to come back recently, what could it be?

After Wu Feifei left, Xu Qiu shared with the rest of the group: Next year's MRS Spring Conference, our group received an invitation from the organizer. At that time, Teacher Wei will take me, Wu Feifei and Han Jiaying to the beautiful country to participate in the conference. .”

Duan Yun was the first to react: What time is it?

Xu Qiu said: From April 1st to 7th, the meeting time is from 2nd to 6th.

Duan Yun cheered and said: Great, then we can have a holiday then.

Xu Qiu admired senior brother Duan Yun's focus. He was always able to paddle when he could, so he didn't worry that his graduation would be affected by the absence of his tutor...

Han Jiaying answered, Really, is this considered traveling abroad?

Well, Xu Qiu nodded, I just checked the location of the venue, it's in a corner of Phoenix City, but I should have the opportunity to go to the surrounding downtown (central business district) and the Grand Canyon, farther away I probably won’t be able to go there.”

Others had different expressions, Mo Wenlin, Sun Wo, Wu Shengnan, and Chen Wanqing were all calm.

Mo Wenlin and Sun Wo were calm because this matter had nothing to do with them at all. Wu Shengnan was as calm as ever, while the senior sister liked to stay at home and didn't like to run around, and she had no interest in going abroad for a short period of time.

Tian Qing was originally doing experiments in the inner laboratory, but when she heard the news, she immediately ran out and chirped to join the discussion team.