Chapter 178 Awards Ceremony in Stockholm

Stockholm City Hall.

In the elegant auditorium, Xu Chuan stood on the stage and delivered a speech, holding two red certificates in his arms.

With the elegant music playing, the Crawford Award ceremony came to an end.

The Crafford Prize presentation ceremony has ended, but the Crafford Prize celebrations have not yet begun.

The celebrations will take place at Stockholm's Red and Blue Park, where dinner and an evening party will take place.

After the party, Xu Chuan will stay in Stockholm for two more days.

Because he had to give lectures on the Weyl-Berry conjecture and the actuarial celestial parameter calculation method using the Xu-Weyl-Berry theorem.

This is a rule of the Crafford Award.

Similar to the Nobel Prize, winners of the Crafford Prize are required to give a public speech when receiving the medal, which is also called the "Crawford Lecture."

The same goes for Nobel Prize scholars. After winning the Nobel Prize, they will also be required to give a public speech, which is the so-called 'Nobel Lecture'.

In addition, after the lecture, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences will organize an international scientific discussion on the topics selected for the award that year.

The award recipients are also required to participate in this discussion to discuss the future development direction of the award-winning discipline.

As for Xu Chuan, he won two Craford Awards, so he had to give two lectures, one for each discipline.

After the award ceremony, Xu Chuan walked out of the auditorium door carrying the medal and certificate.

The moment he appeared at the door, the reporters who had been waiting for a long time swarmed over him, handing them all kinds of microphones, and the equipment in the hands of the cameraman not far away kept flashing.

"Hello, Mr. Xu Chuan, how do you feel as the first scholar to win the Craford Prize in Mathematics and the Astronomy Prize at the same time?"

"Hello Mr. Xu Chuan, I am a reporter from the BBC. Can we interview you?"

"Mr. Xu Chuan."

The swarming media almost put the microphone into Xu Chuan's mouth, and all kinds of questions came noisily.

Although I don’t really want to be interviewed, I’m afraid I can’t get through today’s situation without an interview.

After choosing a few simple questions to answer, Xu Chuan left the venue as if he was running away.

But he was destined to not be able to escape today's interview.

Reporters from other media can run away, but reporters from this media cannot avoid being interviewed. Face must still be given.

I asked the waiter to find a quiet room. Xu Chuan was sitting on a chair, opposite a young lady with a pretty face and figure.

Yangma was specially transferred from China to be responsible for recording the entire process of awarding the Crafford Award and conducting a comprehensive interview with Xu Chuan.

The Crafford Prize is a banner for the country's basic sciences.

After all, no one in China has ever won this award.

Basic science has always been a relatively weak field in China, but being weak does not mean that it will not develop.

Although the Crafford Prize is not as good as the Nobel Prize, it is still quite important in the field of science.

For such an international award, let alone the miracle of winning two awards in the same year, even if you win one of them individually, or even share it with others, as long as the winner is a Chinese scholar, it is worth arranging a special trip. .

Compared with other honors, this is the first time that a young Chinese scholar has made his voice heard on such an occasion. He proved to the world that in China, the younger generation can also produce outstanding young scholars.

"Hello Mr. Xu Chuan, I am Sun Yutong, a reporter from CTV. Thank you very much for taking time out of your busy schedule to accept our interview."

"The interview may take a little time, please excuse me."

The beautiful reporter with a pretty face showed a very friendly smile and her voice was pleasant.

This reminded Xu Chuan of a meme on the Internet: 'Sure enough, all good-looking people are handed over to the state. ’

"No trouble." Xu Chuan showed a standard smile. No matter what, people are always happy when facing beautiful things, even if it is limited to appearance.

Sun Yutong pursed her lips and smiled, and said: "Let's start now. This time you won the Crafford Prize in Mathematics and the Astronomy Prize. Can you talk about your feelings and mood? What do you think this award means to you? value?"

"When I first received the call that I won the award, I was really surprised and even a little bit unbelievable."

"After all, the history of the Crafford Prize has never been to award two different awards to the same person in the same year, or even to different people in different years."

"But take it for granted."

Xu Chuan expressed some of his thoughts in a decent manner, and thanked his parents, his motherland, and all the names he could think of.

After all, it was Yang Ma’s formal interview.

Sun Yutong smiled and then asked: "Before coming, we learned about your Xu-Weyl-Berry theorem and the achievements you made using it in the astronomical world. Many well-known scientists have said that for the astronomical world, , this is an epoch-making achievement. What do you think of this?”

Xu Chuan thought for a while and said: "I am very grateful to them for having such a high evaluation of this result. From the current point of view, this is indeed a very excellent tool. It can help us better understand the characteristics of some distant celestial objects. Condition."

"For example, this tool can be used to understand the life state of a star, to determine whether it has stable periodic activities, to determine whether there are habitable planets around it, and so on."

"These are still very important for the future of mankind."

Hearing this, Sun Yutong immediately asked: "Do you mean that the future of this achievement lies in the interstellar era?"

Xu Chuan looked at the beautiful reporter with some surprise, nodded, and said: "It can be said that after all, only by sailing in the sea of ​​stars can the greatest value of this tool be reflected."

Sun Yutong: "Then when do you think we can truly sail in the sea of ​​stars?"

Xu Chuan thought for a while and said: "It depends on when the controlled nuclear fusion technology can be developed."

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Like the Nobel Prize, there is also a grand celebration banquet after the award ceremony of the Crafoord Prize.

The specifications of the celebration are the same as those of the Nobel Prize, and both are held in the Blue Hall of Stockholm City Hall.

This hall, which has not been completely completed in theory, has hosted countless grand banquets so far.

Whether it is the Nobel Prize, the Crafoord Prize, or other awards or other important matters.

Every year, famous scientists from all over the world gather here to receive awards. Therefore, when you are in it, you can naturally feel a calm and majestic light of wisdom.

Perhaps because it has never been invaded by the British Empire, Sweden still retains its own aristocratic etiquette and customs that are almost original.

The Nobel Prize, Crafford Prize and other dinners held are not like the dinners in the UK and the US, where you can walk around with your plate and make new friends.

These major ceremonial dinners are more like domestic banquets, including the configuration of wine and food on the table, the way to serve, eat and display wine and food, etc., all have strict regulations.

However, the party and dance after the dinner are not so particular.

At the party and dance, Xu Chuan saw many familiar people.

For example, his three mentors, Chen Zhengping, Deligne, and Witten, these three mentors were gathered together and didn't know what they were communicating.

There were also Professor Terence Tao who came from California, Professor Arthur Avila who came from Brazil, and even some physicists who came from CERN, all of whom greeted and congratulated him.

Holding a wine glass, Xu Chuan walked in the venue, and from time to time someone would come up to introduce themselves and clink glasses with him.

For this, Xu Chuan accepted everyone who came, and it is always good to make more friends.

"Congratulations, Xu Chuan."

In the ballroom, an old man with half a head of white hair came over with a glass wine glass.

"Academician Pan, you are here too." Xu Chuan hurried forward to greet him.

This old man is Pan Deming, a mathematics academician of Peking University. He is one of the earliest mathematicians in the country and has participated in various confidential projects of the country (once). For example, he once worked with Qian Lao to build missiles and send satellites into space, which makes people respect him very much.

"I thought I would never see a Chinese person get this medal in my lifetime, but I didn't expect that Nanjing University would produce a good student."

Standing next to Xu Chuan, Academician Pan Deming said with emotion.

Xu Chuan smiled and said, "You will live a long life, and there will be many things to see in the future."

Pan Deming smiled dumbly, shook his head and said, "Enough, enough."

After a pause, he continued, "Please understand what happened to Mo Kun before. Peking University is sorry for you."

Hearing this, Xu Chuan hurriedly said, "You are too serious. This is just his personal behavior and has nothing to do with Peking University. Besides, he has been punished."

Pan Deming smiled, skipped this matter and asked, "How many years do you plan to study in Princeton?"

Xu Chuan thought for a while and said: "Two or three years at the shortest, four or five years at the longest. I still have a lot to learn."

Pan Deming smiled and patted his hands, saying, "It's better to learn more knowledge. You are not even nineteen this year. Even if you are four or five years later, you will only be twenty-three or twenty-four."

After a pause, the old man asked, "Will you be a professor at Princeton or come back?"

Xu Chuan smiled and said, "Of course I'm coming back."

Hearing this, Pan Deming's turbid eyes brightened by two points, and he smiled and said, "It's good to come back, it's good to come back."

He did not invite Xu Chuan to be a professor at Peking University after he came back.

Although he has been away from the academic world for a long time, he also knows that the current Peking University is not suitable.

Mo Kun is a student of Tian Gang from the School of Mathematics of Peking University. Mo Kun plagiarized Xu Chuan, but Peking University did not immediately come out to thoroughly investigate the results, but announced Mo Kun's remarks first.

Although this is a method that all major universities will do, there is no doubt that Peking University will definitely not leave a good impression on Xu Chuan.

What do others think of inviting someone to be a professor at Peking University at this time? It's not appropriate.

Rather than using the little friendship left for this, it is better to wait for the future.

In his opinion, this young genius will definitely have other achievements in the future.

Maybe he will hold some mathematics seminars in China. Although Nanjing University will definitely be the first choice, Peking University should also have the opportunity to attend one or two.

Of course, for Pan Deming, what is more important is that as long as Xu Chuan comes back, it doesn’t matter where he becomes a professor in the future.

He has a hunch that this young man’s future achievements will definitely not be low.

It may even be higher than the majestic figure when he participated in the Dongfeng project.

Pan Deming came over and said hello and left, while Xu Chuan was wandering around the dance party.

In the dance floor, people of all kinds danced to classical music with elegant movements. However, Xu Chuan did not have much intention to join in.

He did know some of this kind of social dance. After all, he had experienced so many parties and dances in his previous life, so he could learn a little even if he had never learned it.

But as a Chinese, dancing was not something that was imprinted in his bones. Compared with the openness of Western countries, Chinese people are still much more conservative.

So if he could avoid dancing, Xu Chuan would try his best to avoid the ladies who invited him to dance. If he really couldn't avoid them, there was nothing he could do.

The next morning, at the entrance of the Mathematical Branch of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, the national flags of Sweden and China were flying.

The red national flag and the blue and yellow national flag fluttered in the breeze, complementing each other.

The national flags hung on it were not random. Only when the Crafford Prize or the Nobel Prize, which were awarded by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, were the winners' national flags hung.

Although this is not the first time that the Chinese flag has been hung here, Professor Tu and Mr. Mo Yan, who won the Nobel Prize, had let the national flag fly here in 2012 and 2015.

But this is the first time that the national flag has been raised because of the Crafoord Prize.

Looking at the national flag fluttering in the wind, Xu Chuan's heart also swayed and beat.

Taking a deep breath, Xu Chuan walked into the lecture hall of the Mathematical Division of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.

As a lecture hall dedicated to Nobel Prize scholars, the area of ​​the lecture hall is naturally very spacious, and can even accommodate thousands of people at the same time.

But at this moment, the huge lecture hall is already very crowded.

Not only is it full, but the corridors between the seats are also full of people, not only scientists and students, but also Swedish citizens who are attracted.

A Crafoord Prize winner who is less than 19 years old, and an unprecedented double winner of the Crafoord Prize in Mathematics and Astronomy, most people are quite interested.

As the main speaker of the Crafoord Award Academic Conference, Xu Chuan, dressed in a formal suit and tie, walked from the side of the podium to the report platform and gave an hour-long report centered on the proof of the Weyl-Berry conjecture and the application of the Xu-Weyl-Berry theorem.

This is a mathematics report, and the core is naturally mathematics.

And tomorrow, he will have another astronomy report meeting, the theme of which will be the observation of celestial information in the hydrogen envelope of Betelgeuse and the report on the actuarial parameter calculation method.