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Yanda monthly regular meeting.

After summarizing the work of this quarter, the principal mainly inspected it from the relevant departments above, and then asked routinely: "Do you have any other questions?"

Generally speaking, no one will speak during this session.

Then the principal can say a word to adjourn the meeting logically.

But today, something is different.

Wu Zhitian, the dean of the School of Mathematics, coughed at this moment: "I have something to do."

He looks very much like those imperial envoys who say "the minister has something to report" in the costume drama.

Ye Qinxue, the dean of the School of Biological Sciences, put his hands together. He usually looked like Maitreya Buddha, but now he was all serious: "I have something to do too."

The dean of the School of Journalism and Communication next door asked for leave, and the dean of the department, Li Anran, who came to the meeting, immediately fought with each other.

The dean of the Xinchuan Institute is only fifty-one now, because he lifts weights every day and is extremely strong. Among the 62 colleges of Yanda University, the health index is probably only comparable to that of the dean of the medical school next door who practices long-distance running.

But for some reason, during the dean's meeting once every three months today, the dean suddenly had a high fever and was bedridden, so the department head could only attend the meeting on his behalf.

Although Li Anran went to the hospital to visit the sick dean, he found that the other party was in a spirit of dragon and tiger, and there was a 50KG barbell hidden under the hospital bed, but he was still ordered to come to this conference room.

But now, Li Anran suddenly understood why the dean was sick.

It must be about Qiao Yu.

Sure enough, after getting the principal's approval, Wu Zhitian started his performance: "The thing is like this, there is a student in our college named Qiao Yu who proved the twin prime number conjecture. His grandfather was a tenured professor of the School of Mathematics of Tianhai University and passed away. When the outside world questioned Qiao Yu's academic achievements, the students of the Journalism School repeatedly attacked..."

Hats were put on top of Li Anran's head as if they didn't need money.

What "greatly damaged the image of Yanda", "ashamed the people of Huaguo", "made jokes for international friends", "severely dampened the enthusiasm of young scholars"...

The matter of the school newspaper has indeed been managed by the Xinchuan Institute.After all, they are professionals when it comes to cultural output.

The headmaster looked in the direction of the head of the department with puzzled eyes: "Director Li, what's going on?"

The head of the department stood up and wanted to explain that his spine was originally straight.

However, more than ten years ago, Li Anran gave up academia and turned to an administrative position, so that he had few papers that could be handed out. Bowed up without hesitation.

"We have seriously criticized the students in the editorial department of the school newspaper, and have given demerits." Li Anran said with a smile, "As for the other student, her counselor also interviewed her. She said that the reason for selling to the video site The video was maliciously edited. We have taken these two matters seriously. It was a complete misunderstanding."

"In addition, the school's Public Opinion Supervision Department also contacted the platform to refute the rumors. The news of Qiao Yu's academic conference was also pushed by Yanda's official Weibo."

Ye Qinxue put his hands on the table: "Misunderstanding? They all say that rumors are spread, and those who believe them will believe it. Those who don't believe it will still call your school shady. The credibility of Yan University is lost. Who is in charge?"

Li Anran absolutely couldn't say "I'm responsible", so he had to say that the loss had been stopped in time.

Presumably, for a long time to come, Xinchuan Academy will have to behave in the school with its tail between its legs.

Li Anran was getting old, and he was going to be scolded like hell, but the two old scholars who scolded people were very particular about their backgrounds and seniors, so they couldn't afford to offend them, so they had to do it themselves.

But as soon as he returned to his one-acre three-point land, Li Anran was not afraid of anyone except the dean who was still lying on the sickbed.

He was so angry that his hands shook, he called the counselor, and the counselor nodded and bowed, then called Fan Ye and asked him to come to his office.

It perfectly shows what is called kicking the cat effect*.

The counselor said angrily: "Hurry up and delete that report for me."

Fan Ye's face was pale, and he did not forget to use chicken feathers as an arrow to argue: "You are obliterating the freedom of the press! In the United States, even if you report negative news about the president, it will be fine. Our press in China needs democracy and freedom. blood!"

"I give you freedom, freedom is what allows you to write fake news?" the counselor yelled, "I think you become more reactionary as you learn more. You can either delete it and issue a statement saying that the report is false, or you will be punished and fired. It's your choice. !"

In academia, if there is doubt about a result.And when you can't compete, the best way to prove yourself is to hold an academic report meeting with the party that published the paper.

Theoretically speaking, academic reports do not require tickets.

However, due to limited venues and extremely high thresholds, under normal circumstances, units or schools are organized to send invitations instead of speakers.

Sometimes, academic reports are also a good way to improve your qualifications.

However, since not all achievements are worthy of a report meeting, if a scholar does not have a correct understanding of himself and holds a report meeting blindly, it is easy to have an embarrassing scene with few audiences.

Therefore, most of those who are qualified to hold academic reports are old professors with high moral character, or young and middle-aged scholars who have gained a certain reputation in the world.

It is probably the first time in the history of Yanda that an undergraduate student hold an academic report meeting.

Yenching University's official account announced the news to all walks of life very low-key.

Yenching University V: #燕大新闻# [Qiao Yu, the prover of the twin prime number conjecture, is about to give an academic report] Qiao Yu, a young scholar from our school, was invited to visit Yanjing-Yenjing International Mathematics Research Center, and will be in the afternoon of October 10 The lecture hall of the Mathematics Center made an academic report entitled "Twin Prime Conjecture".

No matter how low-key Yanda is, it is also a top-level prestigious school in China, and its mathematics field is the vane of Huaguo's mathematics field.

The first one forwarded was the official V of Tsinghua University next door, who directly stated: I hope Yanda University can understand the rules of the road, and send out more invitation letters, and the professors who study number theory in our school are waiting to listen.He also said that if you don't want the extra Qiao Yu, you can throw it to Qing University.

Although it was a joke, but if Qiao Yu really wanted to transfer schools, they were willing to operate it.

The entire School of Mathematics began to make arrangements in full swing. Due to time constraints, all domestic scholars and some official media reporters from the Yanda Department were invited.

Since Qiao Yu was giving an academic report for the first time, Dean Wu Zhitian specially called someone over and gave some instructions.

"This report is expected to last for an hour, and the first 30 minutes is your PPT explanation. You need to explain your proof ideas and process clearly within half an hour, and try to be as fast as possible without any omissions."

"The remaining half an hour is used to answer the questions of the participants. Many people are experts in the industry, with sharp angles, and they have no malicious intentions, but the questions they ask are often slanted. You must understand your topic exactly. Otherwise This report will fail, and you may face more doubts."

Wu Zhitian is over 60 years old, with fine crow's feet at the end of his eyes, so his complexion is fair and he doesn't like to take care of it, and age spots appeared early on his face. At this time, his expression is all serious: "Do you understand?"

Qiao Yu subconsciously straightened her body, and replied like a military order: "Understood."

There is no flinching, but some energy and indomitable spirit that belong to young people.

Wu Zhitian was very satisfied, feeling that this problem was not in vain.

The fact that Qiao Yu was going to hold an academic conference caused heated discussions within Yanda.

Both the School of Mathematics and the School of Biology have holidays. I hope that Queen Qiao will use this week to prepare early, and I am still afraid that it will not be enough.

After all, other scholars have to start preparing at least one month in advance.If it weren't for the fierce public opinion, which even spread to the Internet, the academic conference would not be held so urgently.

For the first time, Qiao Yu enjoyed the treatment of attending class on time but being kicked out by the teacher.

He came to molecular chemistry with a biology book, and Kou Yuhang, who was in class, frowned, telling him to go back and prepare the PPT for the report.

"It doesn't matter if you miss a few classes. Now your main task is the academic report meeting. This is the top priority of our school's science and engineering department in the past week." Kou Yuhang said earnestly.

You know, this teacher is the one who the dean of the hospital has been holding on to for several times.

Qiao Yu was rushed back to the dormitory, after thinking about it, she simply asked for a leave of absence from the school, and was going to Song Tianyu's house to prepare the PPT.The reason is easy to find, that is, I need to stay up late to do PPT, for fear of affecting my roommate's sleep.

But everyone in the dormitory can swear by conscience that Qiao Yu goes to bed at 11 o'clock every night, earlier than the other three.

And no matter how noisy it is outside, I can fall asleep without being shaken.

With a flick of a pen, the counselor confirmed it.

It took Qiao Yu three days to complete the PPT, and the system reminded him that he received a new email last night, suggesting that he log in to have a look.

He opened the mailbox and found that the message was sent by the editorial department of "Acta Mathematics".

[Joe, we heard that you are going to hold a symposium at your university, but you haven’t received your invitation after waiting for a long time. Did you forget something? (Ps: Professor Hilton asked me to ask.)]

Hilton is a tenured professor at Yale University. In addition, he is also the reviewer of Qiao Yu's paper. Even after the review of the paper, because he was worried that Qiao Yu would not be able to pay the page fee, he took the initiative to advance the money.

Qiao Yu quickly replied: [I'm very sorry, this is the first time I hold an academic report meeting.The scholars invited this time were arranged by the school for me. Maybe because of the tight time, no foreign professors were invited.I hope you can help me tell Professor Hilton: I will contact the school immediately to send an invitation, and I am waiting for his visit at any time.Even if you don’t have an invitation letter, you can come to participate. Yanda will never reject a top scholar like him. ]

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October 10 happens to be a Saturday.

Professor Sun Daqiang from Nantah University came all the way from Jinling.

He is the deputy dean of the School of Mathematics at Nantah University. In his opinion, it is a great honor for him to come here this time.

If it hadn't been for Yanda's invitation, he would never have gone to see a junior academic report meeting...

Even if the twin prime number conjecture is proved, so what, in terms of qualifications, Qiao Yu is not enough to be his graduate student.

Sun Daqiang also asked in advance who Yanda had invited. Except for some media, most of the visiting scholars were from the younger generation. A respected senior like him already belonged to the top three on the list.

Therefore, as soon as he got off the plane, Sun Daqiang looked around, waiting for people from Yanda University to pick him up.

He did indeed wait for it. The person who came was a senior student who could drive a car. When he saw him, he was full of smiles: "Hi, Professor Sun, I am a senior student in the History Department of Yanda University. My surname is Liu. You call me Xiao Liu." Just fine."

Sun Daqiang couldn't help frowning, and asked after getting into the car, "Are you the only one who came to pick me up?"

He thought that it was a matter of course for him to have at least an associate professor or teaching assistant in the Department of Mathematics to support him.

It would be too perfunctory to ask a senior student to come.He has been in the academic circle for decades, is this the only treatment?

Yanda is simply deceiving people too much!

"Yes, I'm very sorry. There are too many scholars attending the meeting today. The teachers in the school didn't expect it to be too busy. The professors from Tsinghua University have come to help, and the Academic Affairs Office has temporarily changed the meeting room."

"Stop!" Sun Daqiang's complexion sank, he patted the seat, and said in a strange voice, "Really? Are there any scholars, let me hear what they say?"

Let him see who is bigger than himself.

If Yan University didn't give an explanation, he would fly back to Jinling right now.

Xiao Liu is a real person, he looked up and thought for a moment, and said: "There is Gregory Hilton..."

With only one name, Sun Daqiang suddenly straightened his back: "Is that Hilton from Yale University who has won the Fields Medal, the Wolf Medal and the Abel Prize?"

"Yes."

Sun Daqiang gasped.

At the previous quadrennial conference of mathematicians, Hilton gave a 45-minute academic report in the conference center.Sun Daqiang tried to talk to him, but he couldn't squeeze through the enthusiastic crowd.

"anything else?"

"Hmm... and Philippe Ciais, Jack W. Szostak, Harvard's Alan Kester (former IMO referee)... By the way, professor, why do you want me to stop?"

Sun Daqiang was silent for a moment, looking at the blue sky and white clouds outside the window, he felt that the world had become magical: "It's nothing, I was a little motion sick just now, just keep driving."

The author has something to say: *Kicking the cat effect: Refers to the chain reaction of venting dissatisfaction with objects who are weaker or lower than oneself. "Kicking the cat effect" depicts a typical contagion of bad emotions.

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Today's doubt: Why is negative news a blocked word?