Chapter 135 Being Urged to Graduate by the School

Xu Chuan is not worried that the Annual Review of Astronomy and Astrophysics will not be able to review his paper, nor is he worried that the paper will be returned.

There is no one who can review his paper in the astrophysics community, but there are people in the mathematics and physics communities.

As long as the editors of the Annual Review of Astronomy and Astrophysics have brains, they will not give up on this kind of paper that can change the entire astronomy and astrophysics community, and they will do everything they can to keep it.

For other people, it is their honor to publish a paper in such a top journal, but for Xu Chuan's paper, it is an honor to be included in the journal.

It's like Einstein's Nobel Prize is an honor for the Nobel Prize, not Einstein's honor.

What is more worrying for Xu Chuan now is that the school is urging him to graduate.

That's right, he has only been in the first semester of his freshman year, and he is still one or two months away from completing his freshman year. The school is urging him to graduate and urging him to graduate quickly.

He is now in the office of his mentor Chen Zhengping, and was called by a phone call.

In the office, there were not only his mentor Chen Zhengping, but also Professor Zhou Hai of the School of Mathematics, Dean Rong Zhizhuan, and Dean Yu Yongwang of the School of Physics.

"Xu Chuan, you should graduate soon. Graduate early and go out for further studies early. You are at the right age to study now."

"You should know that people on the Internet are wondering why you have made such great achievements but have not yet graduated from undergraduate studies. It seems that Nanjing University is detaining you and not letting you graduate. The school is under great pressure."

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In the office, Rong Zhizhuan persuaded him earnestly, hoping that he could go to a higher institution to receive higher knowledge.

Although there are indeed some doubts on the Internet, they are far from affecting Nanjing University, let alone putting pressure on colleges and universities.

It's just that in his and many people's opinion, Nanjing University's School of Mathematics can no longer teach Xu Chuan anything. Only a top school of mathematics like Princeton, a sacred place of mathematics with many Fields Medals winners, can allow Xu Chuan to step onto a higher level of mathematics.

Therefore, since Xu Chuan proved the Weyl-Berry conjecture, he has been actively urging him to graduate, not wanting to delay his study of mathematics because of the matter of double major in physics and mathematics.

In terms of cherishing mathematical talents, no one in the whole of Nanjing University is more dedicated than Rong Zhizhuan.

On the side, Professor Zhou Hai and Dean of the School of Physics Yu Yongwang calmly drank tea and watched the show.

For Zhou Hai, although Xu Chuan was a dual-math student of physics and mathematics, he was not his disciple after all, and he was not the school leader of the School of Mathematics. Xu Chuan's mathematical talent was indeed outstanding, and the School of Mathematics of Nanjing University could not teach him anything, but he did not need to rush him to graduate.

Today he came here just to be a foil by Rong Zhizhuan.

As for Dean of the School of Physics Yu Yongwang, he was even calmer. He had a shallower relationship with Xu Chuan, not to mention that Chen Zhengping was still here. Chen Zhengping was Xu Chuan's real mentor, and he was also a physics mentor.

Listening to Rong Zhizhuan's persuasion, Xu Chuan turned his eyes to his mentor Chen Zhengping.

The two looked at each other, and Chen Zhengping shook his head slightly. He also supported his disciple to graduate early.

To be honest, he didn't have too many complicated thoughts about Xu Chuan's early graduation, and he didn't care whether he had made achievements in physics.

If it were an ordinary tutor or professor, with such an excellent student, he would definitely try to keep the student for a longer period of time.

After all, according to the current academic unwritten rules in China, the teacher can get a share of the student's graduation thesis or other research results, even if the student is the only one who has done it. Not to mention that he can get all the first author, but at least the second author and the corresponding author tutor will get a share.

However, for him, these things are no longer important. He can become an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and he does not need these students' achievements to add points.

Xu Chuan did not actually add his name to the paper for his achievements, whether it is the proof of the weak Weyl-Berry conjecture, the comprehensive proof of the Weyl-Berry conjecture, or the scientific observation experiment of Betelgeuse and the subsequent derivative results of the Xu-Weyl-Berry theorem.

It is completely fine to add it, after all, he is a tutor, but Chen Zhengping does not disdain to take advantage of such an advantage. In this era when teachers' ethics are becoming increasingly rare, he still has to save face.

Moreover, these things have basically nothing to do with him. They are all made by Xu Chuan himself, and they are all achievements in the mathematics community.

In this case, it is even more impossible to add his name to Xu Chuan's paper. Although Xu Chuan mentioned these things, he refused.

Chen Zhengping did not have too many ideas about students like Xu Chuan. The only idea was not to delay his future and let him go to a higher platform to absorb scientific research nutrients and continue to grow.

The group chatted in the office for a while and then dispersed.

In fact, today's conversation was not specifically to urge Xu Chuan to graduate, but to inform him of the reward for the results of the Betelgeuse scientific research experiment.

Regarding the reward for this scientific research experiment, Nanjing University has discussed and prepared.

The observation result of discovering a companion star in the hydrogen envelope of Betelgeuse will be rewarded with 100,000 cash by the school.

And the method of using the Xu-Weyl-Berry theorem to accurately calculate the parameter information of distant celestial bodies will be rewarded with 500,000 cash by the school.

In comparison, the Weyl-Berry conjecture is proved to be much less, but it is normal. After all, the influence of the two is completely different.

Even though the weight of the Weyl-Berry conjecture in the mathematical world is only at the bottom of T2, and the method of accurately calculating the parameter information of distant celestial bodies is ranked at the top in the astronomical world, and can be said to be the level of the founding school, the weight of the two is still the same. Quite a difference.

Without him, the astronomical world is too small to compare with the mathematical world.

Of course, these are only rewards from the school. In addition, there are also rewards from Jinling City, rewards from the astronomical community, etc. These are all inescapable.

However, although the rewards are ready, it will still take some time for them to be distributed.

First, the paper on the Xu-Weyl-Berry theorem's method for accurately calculating parameter information of distant celestial bodies has not yet passed review.

Second, this time the scientific research laboratory discovered that Betelgeuse has a companion star in its hydrogen envelope. This is something that will require a return cycle to determine.

Therefore, although the school has prepared the awards, according to regulations, it cannot be issued yet. It needs to wait until the scientific research results are completely confirmed. In other words, Xu Chuan will have to wait at least more than a month to get these awards. .

However, unexpectedly, an astronomical institution in the Germanic country made a detailed observation of Betelgeuse two or three months ago.

Then after it was revealed that Betelgeuse was a twin star, the other party immediately thought of the previous data. After comparing it, they found some identical data anomalies.

Without using Xu Chuan's Xu-Weyl-Berry theorem, we used traditional methods to conduct more complex calculations, and also came to the conclusion that there is indeed a companion star in Betelgeuse's hydrogen envelope.

And the time is completely consistent with the results calculated by Xu Chuan.

Two kinds of data, two completely different methods, by comparison, it was simultaneously determined that Betelgeuse has a companion star, and it was also determined that the return period of the companion star in Betelgeuse is twenty-eight days, and it was also confirmed that it had been thought before Betelgeuse, which was a single-star galaxy, eventually became a binary-star galaxy.

So after the German astronomical agency announced the news, NTU also followed up in real time. Not only did it once again publicize this astronomical discovery, it also distributed the reward for the discovery of a companion star in Betelgeuse's hydrogen envelope in advance. .

As for the Xu-Weyl-Berry theorem's method of accurately calculating parameter information of distant celestial bodies, we have to wait until the paper is reviewed.

As for the rewards from the city and the astronomical community, they basically have to wait until the final results are confirmed before they can be distributed.

The others left. Xu Chuan said hello and was about to leave, but was stopped by his mentor.

"By the way, there's one more thing."

Chen Zhengping stopped Xu Chuan and continued: "As for last year's scientific research experiment on tungsten diselenide, I have completed the project and submitted it for review."

"So you can send out the mathematical model used in the analysis of tungsten diselenide, including modeling papers and the like."

Hearing that the project review of tungsten diselenide was completed, Xu Chuan asked curiously: "Have the collapse and rolling effects of tungsten diselenide nanosheets been finally solved when they are laid flat? What is the yield rate?"

Hearing this, Chen Zhengping grinned and said, "It's solved. Thanks to your help, your senior brother and I used that mathematical model to optimize the reducing agent and catalyst."

"In the end, the reducing agent was modified, and the originally used hydrogen reducing agent was modified into an ionic hydride, that is, a salt-type hydride, and finally the yield reached about 93.67 percent."

"In addition, after the scientific research experiments here are completed, the bonuses should also be distributed. According to the contribution and bonus awarding system, the bonus for you and Professor Zhou Hai's student named Xin is 179,000."

"Give me a bank card account number, and I'll call you here. Because your bonuses are integrated, plus the mathematical model you completed independently before, I don't know much about your specific contribution and how much each of you has done. It’s clear, so the bonus will be distributed to you.”

When Xu Chuan heard that the yield rate of tungsten diselenide reached 93%, he knew that the defects caused by van der Waals forces had been solved.

He was not surprised that his mentor could find a new reducing agent to solve the problem of van der Waals force defects. After all, he was an academician of the Academy of Sciences and an academician with real materials.

However, he did not go on to ask what the ionic hydride reducing agent used to solve van der Waals forces was, because it involved experimental secrets.

Except for the internal core personnel of the scientific research team, as well as some patent reviewers and key people, no one else will know about something of this critical nature.

Even the published patent terms do not contain such details.

It was the amount of the bonus that surprised Xu Chuan.

One hundred and seventy-nine thousand, a bonus of almost 180,000, breaking six figures. This amount is quite exaggerated for people like him and his senior who joined the scientific research project midway.

He had estimated his bonus before. It seemed that he and his senior sister could get a total bonus of just over 100,000 yuan.

Unexpectedly, the final result almost doubled.

Of course, this bonus is nothing to a material project with a market of more than a billion or even billions.

If he could participate in this project from the beginning, the bonus could be more than doubled.

But after all, he joined halfway, and he was not a member of the research team. He could get a bonus of more than 100,000 yuan. In fact, it can be said that Chen Zhengping attached great importance to his contribution. The bonus should be calculated according to the maximum contribution value.

There is no such thing as ordinary professors or mentors secretly deducting members' bonuses, and some even subsidize some money privately.

However, his mentor Chen Zhengping will not lose money. Not only will he not lose money, but he can even make a lot of money. Relying on the tungsten diselenide project, he has a probability of more than 90% to win the National Science and Technology Award of China.

As long as you get the National Science and Technology Award, no matter which level, the bonus can exceed 2 million.

If you can go up one level and get the National Highest Science and Technology Award, the bonus can exceed 5 million, and the probability of getting it is actually not low, which can exceed 60%.

Because tungsten diselenide, a low-dimensional material, has a high effect, it has good physical, chemical and electrical properties, and can be widely used in energy storage batteries, lubrication, semiconductors, photovoltaics, aerospace, aviation, military, national defense and other fields.

At present, more than 80% of domestic tungsten diselenide is imported. If it can be produced independently, it will definitely break the foreign monopoly and even be exported in reverse.

As for the bonus of more than 100,000 yuan he received, it is just a drop in the bucket for the entire project.

After all, his joining is undoubtedly important to the tungsten diselenide project.

If it weren't for his analysis, mentor Chen Zhengping would have given up this long-delayed project at the beginning of this year.

If there is no mathematical model, the collapse and roll-up effect caused by van der Waals force when tungsten diselenide is laid flat is not so easy to solve. This project may have to be delayed for a year or two before it can be completed.

And Xu Chuan can be sure that the yield rate of tungsten diselenide will not reach more than 93%. According to his experience, it is about 90% at most.

The yield rate of 93 is very exaggerated for low-dimensional materials such as tungsten diselenide.

Xu Chuan remembered that when he was developing superconducting materials, he also used low-dimensional materials, but the yield was only about 80%. Later, he asked a mathematician from Princeton to help him make a mathematical model, and with the help of Princeton's supercomputer, he raised the yield to about 97%. This shows the importance of mathematical models in material research and development.

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