Chapter 244 Visiting

"Welcome to take flight CA931 from Luzhou to Beijing North. I am here..."

Listening to the friendly voice of the flight attendant on the radio, Wu Bin found his seat, sat down, and fastened his seat belt.

At the beginning of the winter vacation, Wu Bin, who was supposed to take the train home with Li Yan, got on the plane to Beijing alone. As for the reason, it was because he wanted to meet someone, a living legend of physics. , Chen Ning Yang.

Back to two days ago, Wu Bin, who was reading, received a call from Professor Song Nanfeng, asking him to go to his office for a chat. The result of this conversation was that Mr. Yang wanted to meet and chat with him. This news.

Today, Wu Bin is no longer an unknown person who just entered university to study physics.

His graphene-related paper published in "Science Advances" has been selected as "China's 100 Most Influential International Academic Papers of the Year" and is the single cited paper among the searchable papers in the Web of Science (SCI, SSCI, AHCI) of HKUST. The highest number of papers.

Later, another paper was published in the top materials magazine "Advanced Materials", setting a record for the first publication in the Department of Physics.

In addition, three papers have been published in the top physics journal "Physical Review Letters".

Such an achievement would be dazzling even for a doctoral student, let alone a sophomore.

Finally, Wu Bin also learned from Professor Song why Director Jiang took the initiative to mention graduation to him. It turned out that some national youth awards required him to graduate from college before they could be awarded to him.

These awards are very practical rewards for Wu Bin personally and will be of great benefit to his future scientific research career. Of course, the University of Science and Technology that trained him will also benefit from it.

The reason why Mr. Yang made the request to meet him this time was that in addition to Wu Bin being the most dazzling among the new generation of college students, Mr. Yang also had a special feeling for HKUST.

First of all, Luzhou is Mr. Yang’s hometown. He was born in Sigu Lane and has deep feelings for Luzhou.

In 1978, under the initiative of Mr. Yang and others, HKUST established the first junior class. Later, Mr. Yang took advantage of the situation and became an honorary professor of HKUST. In 2000, he even made a special trip to HKUST to attend the "Qiushi Graduate Scholarship" "Award Ceremony.

Zhuang Xiaowei, Wu Bin's super academic senior, received Chen Ning Yang's suggestion that she study experimental physics when she went to the University of California, Berkeley.

Now, for Wu Bin, the second outstanding student in the history of HKUST who is about to complete the four majors of mechanics, it is not surprising that Mr. Yang, who has always been concerned about HKUST, wants to meet him.

Air tickets and accommodation have been arranged. As for whether it was arranged by HKUST or Mr. Yang, Professor Song did not say specifically, and Wu Bin did not ask.

Although there was not enough time, Wu Bin still went to get a general understanding of the topics studied by this physics expert in the past two days, and quickly read through the "Dawn Collection" and "Morning Collection" written by him.

A comparison table between the physical gauge field theory and the mathematical fiber bundle geometry theory listed in it made Wu Bin feel very powerful. If he had more time, he would definitely study the correspondence between the various elements in the list.

The meeting time was arranged at 5 o'clock in the afternoon. The location was not the Jinghua University where Mr. Yang worked, nor a high-end restaurant, but his home.

When he first heard the news, Wu Bin was still a little flattered. After all, for such a big man, inviting you to his home as a guest can be said to be a very high standard, not to mention this is the first time they have met.

Wu Bin had already experienced the traffic jam in northern Beijing, so even though it was still early after he got off the plane, he still called a taxi in advance and went to Mr. Yang's residence. He really didn't want to be late for such an important occasion.

Mr. Yang's home is a small milk-white building surrounded by a spacious lawn, which looks very comfortable.

He turned on his phone and looked at the time. It was 14:25, which was still early than the agreed time. Wu Bin found a shop and continued reading. It wasn't until dusk gradually fell that Wu Bin closed the book and walked towards Mr. Yang's home.

"call……"

Wu Bin, who was standing at the gate, took a deep breath before slowly pressing the doorbell.

Soon, a woman who looked very intellectual came out and opened the door for Wu Bin, and said to him with a smile: "You are Wu Bin, you look younger than I thought."

"Hello, this is my first visit. I don't know what you two like, so I bought some tea and brought it with me."

Naturally, Wu Bin had seen Weng Fan's photo, so he immediately recognized Mr. Yang's wife, and immediately took out a box of tea from his backpack that he had prepared before boarding the plane and handed it to her.

"You're too polite. Please don't bring any gifts in the future." Weng Fan didn't refuse too much. He smiled and took the tea box from Wu Bin's hand. Then he turned to Wu Bin and said, "Come in and sit down."

"Thank you." Wu Bin nodded towards her and walked into the room.

Just when Wu Bin was thinking about where to sit, an old man slowly walked down the stairs. Wu Bin looked up and saw that it was Professor Yang Zhenning.

"Hello, Professor Yang, thank you very much for your invitation." Wu Bin took two steps forward and nodded to the old man.

"I'm glad you can come." Yang Zhenning smiled and nodded towards Wu Bin, then pointed to the sofa in the center of the living room with his crutch and said: "Sit down, I have a lot to talk to you."

Wu Bin also liked such a direct introduction to the topic, so after Mr. Yang sat down, he immediately sat across from him, while Weng Fan helped bring drinks and fruits to the two of them.

"I have read all your papers. For an undergraduate, I can only say that I have never seen anyone who does a better job than you." After taking a sip of tea, Yang Zhenning praised Wu Bin with approval.

"Thank you for the compliment."

Wu Bin was not too modest and accepted the compliment politely.

Yang Zhenning smiled and nodded and continued: "Actually, I was supposed to go to HKUST to talk to you, but I couldn't help it. I'm older and it's really uncomfortable to fly, so I had to put on airs and talk to you. Please come to me."

"I, a junior, should have come to visit you. Professor Yang said something serious." Wu Bin waved his hand quickly.

"Okay, that's enough of the polite words. I have to ask you a very important question first. After graduating from undergraduate degree, which university do you plan to go to for further study? Maybe I can give you some advice."

Wu Bin: "In this regard... I plan to study for a direct PhD at HKUST."

After hearing Wu Bin's answer, Yang Zhenning was stunned for a moment, but soon laughed and said: "It seems that there are really many topics we can talk about today."