Xueba's life simulator

Chapter 186 The Golden Generation

"This is Chen Qizhong, the chairman of Henglong Group. He is also the founder and chairman of our Huaguo Cultural Relics Protection Foundation, the vice chairman of the Asia Society and the chairman of its Hong Kong branch, and the director of the Asia-Africa Association. One of the founders of the family conference..."

Li Mingzhi began to introduce these people to Zhou Ming. The first person he introduced to Zhou Ming was the one who greeted Zhou Ming just now.

There are two sponsors of the World Congress of Chinese Mathematicians, the world-renowned mathematician Yau Shing-tung and Chen Qizhong, chairman of Heung Kong Morningside Group.

In addition, the Morningside Mathematics Award that Zhou Ming will win today is also funded by the Henglong Group.

After introducing this Chen Qizhong, Li Mingzhi began to introduce other people to Zhou Ming. The one standing next to Chen Qizhong was Qiu Chengtong, so there was no need for Li Zhizhi to introduce him.

Li Mingzhi also directly skipped over Qiu Chengtong who was beside Chen Qizhong, and directly introduced another guest beside Qiu Chengtong to Zhou Ming.

"This is Qiu Yong, a professor of organic optoelectronic materials at Tsinghua University. He was promoted to president last year and was elected as an academician of our Huaguo Academy of Sciences in 13..." Li Mingzhi introduced to Zhou Ming.

It turned out that this is the current president of Tsinghua University.

On the other side of Qiu Yong was Zhou Chunli.

"Hello, Professor Zhou, I've heard of your name for a long time, and I was talking about you with Professor Qiu just now." After Li Mingzhi introduced him, that Qiu Yong also stretched out his hand and said to Zhou Ming.

"I won't introduce you to those young people one by one. You will know their names when the awards are presented later. If you are interested, you can have a good chat with them after the conference.

After all, you are all young people, and there may not be such a big generation gap.Unlike us old people, who are a little older than you, you may feel that there is a generation gap when you chat with us. "

After Li Mingzhi introduced these people, he smiled and said to Zhou Ming.

"Professor Qiu, hello." Zhou Ming also reached out his hand to shake Qiu Yong's hand. As for the polite words and what they were discussing about themselves just now, Zhou Ming didn't ask.

Because what they said was indeed true, Zhou Ming was indeed well-known now, if he said some modest polite words, it would seem a little too modest.

"Is Professor Zhou's recent project progressing smoothly?" Zhou Chunli also asked Zhou Ming. He and Zhou Ming spoke as if they were good friends.

"Whether it is the space synthetic biology project or the research on artificial food synthesis, the progress is very smooth." Zhou Ming said to Dean Zhou.

Hearing Zhou Ming say that everything is going well, Zhou Chunli also nodded. He has only met Zhou Ming a few times before at the 531 meeting and at the University of Science and Technology summer camp in July, so he is not very familiar with him, and there are not many topics to talk about. many.

On the contrary, when Qiu Chengtong came to participate in Zhou Ming's academic report proving Goldbach's conjecture, he had some exchanges with Zhou Ming. Coupled with Li Zhizhi's relationship, the relationship between Qiu Chengtong and Zhou Ming was better than that of everyone present except Li Zhizhi. All good.

"Recently, I have only heard about your various researches in biology, and one comes out every now and then, but I haven't heard much about your research in mathematics.

What, are you ready to abandon martial arts and follow literature?
Have you started preparing for research in mathematics recently?Or have you been researching, but haven't produced any research results yet? "

At this moment, Zhou Ming and the others also sat down. Qiu Chengtong sat beside Zhou Ming and asked him.

When it comes to the latter, Qiu Chengtong also speaks in an old friend's tone, which can be heard by the people around him.

It seems that Li Mingzhi hasn't told Qiu Chengtong what Zhou Ming said before.

"After proving Goldbach's conjecture, almost all the time was spent on biology, but not much time was spent on mathematics.

However, I have recently been preparing for a postgraduate course next year, so I think I have returned to the field of mathematics.As for my future research direction in mathematics, I am still examining this and have not finalized it yet. "

Zhou Ming explained to Qiu Chengtong.

On the other hand, Li Mingzhi had a weird expression on his face, as if he was holding back a smile. It seemed that he wanted to see his good friend. expression.

At this time, the other people sitting around Zhou Ming also gathered together, paying attention to this place all the time, ready to listen to what Zhou Ming had to say.

"Oh? Are you going to accept graduate students? But you also said that your graduate students will not enter school until next year, and you have started preparing research topics for them so soon? What specific topics are you preparing for them? ?”

As Li Mingzhi had expected, Qiu Chengtong immediately became interested after hearing what Zhou Ming said, and asked Zhou Ming.

"Tentatively there are Zhou's conjecture, Collats' conjecture, and ABC conjecture." Zhou Ming simply mentioned the names of several mathematical conjectures.

However, when Zhou Ming said this, the other mathematicians who gathered around to listen to him fell silent.

"The Coraz conjecture? And the ABC conjecture? Are you sure this is a topic you are planning to give to graduate students, and not your own future research direction?"

After Qiu Chengtong heard Zhou Ming say these names, he also asked him curiously.

"Haha, I knew you must have the same expression. I've confirmed it several times, that's what he thinks.

Moreover, I have more confidence in his idea.

Well... except for the ABC conjecture. "

After seeing Qiu Chengtong's surprised expression, Li Mingzhi smiled and expressed his trust in Zhou Ming, but he added one sentence at the end.

After all, among the conjectures that Zhou Ming just mentioned, the first two conjectures of ABC are not difficult at all.

"It is indeed a topic for graduate students. This matter..."

Just as Zhou Ming was about to tell Qiu Chengtong about this matter, it was time for the opening ceremony of the conference, and the opening ceremony was about to begin.

And Qiu Chengtong, who was sitting in the front row, also walked up to the awarding platform in front, and there was also a row of tables and chairs on the awarding platform.

Zhou Ming looked around and found that the entire hall was almost full of people.

The opening ceremony was attended by representatives of Chinese mathematicians from all over the world, as well as some university mathematics scholars and many students, as well as leaders of many research institutes and universities, totaling approximately 500 people.

After the opening ceremony officially began, a professional host said a few words on it, and then Zhou Chunli, Qiu Yong, Qiu Chengtong, and Chen Qizhong made speeches to the conference.

"I would like to express my warmest welcome and heartfelt thanks to the experts and scholars at home and abroad who came to the meeting... Mathematics is of great significance in promoting the progress of human science and technology and social development, and in the process of promoting the development and progress of mathematics Among them, the World Congress of Chinese Mathematicians also played a very important role...

I believe that as long as we persevere, strengthen our confidence, overcome difficulties, encourage innovation, and gather the collective wisdom of Chinese mathematicians at home and abroad, we will surely complete the history from a mathematical power to a mathematical power in the not-too-distant future. Sexual transformation…”

After Bai Chunli finished his speech, the other three people who came to the stage also made their speeches one after another.

After the speech, the host came up to say a few more words, and then presented the Morningside Mathematics Award and other awards at the opening ceremony.

"The winners of the [-]th Morningside Mathematics Gold Medal have been a blockbuster in the past year. Zhou Ming, who proved the twin prime number conjecture and Goldbach's conjecture, Zhang Wei, who studied number theory and automorphic forms, and Li, who studied the Landau-Ginzburg model and BCOV theory mustached.

The recipient of the Morningside Applied Mathematics Gold Medal this year is the proof of Nadirashvili's conjecture, the lower bound of Yau's conjecture, and Zhou Ming's research on the alternative application of Bayesian formula to Bayesian algorithm. Optimization and ill-posed inverse problems and the application of compressive sensing to Wo Tao.

The winner of this year's Morningside Mathematics Silver Medal is..."

After the announcement of the names of a series of winners, the awards began.

"Keep up the good work and look forward to seeing your next achievement in the field of mathematics soon."

When Qiu Chengtong, the chairman and judges of the conference, handed out medals to Zhou Ming, Qiu Chengtong said to Zhou Ming.

At this time, one of Zhou Ming's hands and Qiu Chengtong were holding a framed award certificate, and the other hand was holding a box about the size of only one hand. This small box contained a golden medal.

"I will continue to work hard." At this time, there were people taking pictures and videos below, and Zhou Ming also said to Qiu Chengtong with a serious face, not as casual as he was in the audience.

After Zhou Ming finished speaking, both of them looked at the camera with smiles on their faces and asked the photographer to take a picture.

Soon, the award ceremony for the Morningside Mathematics Gold Award came to an end, and the three winners of the award also walked down from the award podium.

The next step is to present other awards.

Although the Morningside Mathematics Prize is only awarded to Chinese mathematicians under the age of 45, among the three Chinese mathematicians who won the Morningside Mathematics Gold Medal this time, Zhou Ming's age is clearly different from the other two.

Zhang Wei, who studies number theory and automorphic forms, was born in 1981 and is 35 years old this year, 12 years older than Zhou Ming.

When he was 2000 years old in 19, he was recommended to the School of Mathematical Sciences of Peking University.

At the age of 29, he won the Ramanujan Prize. Last year, he was exceptionally hired by Columbia University as a tenured professor in the Department of Mathematics. He has become a shining academic star in the current international mathematics community.

In fact, Zhang Wei, before Zhou Ming was born and showed his talents, he, Xu Chenyang, Yun Zhiwei, and Zhu Xinwen were all mathematical geniuses who were often mentioned among the younger generation in China.

Among them, Yun Zhiwei is also present at the World Congress of Chinese Mathematicians. He is one of the winners of the Morningside Mathematics Silver Medal.

Zhou Ming was born after having a life simulator. At the beginning, although Zhou Ming was generally younger than these people by a dozen years, some people still compared these people with Zhou Ming.

As time went by, Zhou Ming's achievements in mathematics and other subjects became greater and greater, and no one compared these people with Zhou Ming anymore.

Another student, Li Si, who studies string theory, entered the junior class of Huaguo University of Science and Technology in 1999, and he and Zhou Ming are still alumni.

In 2011, he received a Ph.D. from the Department of Mathematics of Harvard University, and then became a professor in the Department of Mathematics of Tsinghua University in 2014. He is also in his 30s this year.

And Zhou Ming is only 23 years old this year. When the two of them went to college, Zhou Ming had just started elementary school.

"Professor Zhou, is it convenient for a chat?"

Just as Zhou Ming stepped off the awards platform and was about to return to his seat, Zhang Wei who followed him walked up to Zhou Ming and said to Zhou Ming.

Although Zhou Ming usually didn't take the initiative to chat with other mathematics researchers when he was in school, since others came to him, he had nothing to do, so naturally he would not refuse.

Therefore, after receiving Zhang Wei's invitation, Zhou Ming also showed a smile, and said to him: "Of course, let's find a place to sit down and chat."

After speaking, the two walked towards the empty seats under the awards platform, and Li Si, who was with him, did not go anywhere else. After Zhou Ming and Zhang Wei sat down, he also found an empty seat beside him. .

"I heard that Professor Zhou covers a wide range of fields, especially in the fields of biology and mathematics, covering almost all fields of these two subjects.

So, I managed to meet Professor Zhou today, and I would like to ask Professor Zhou if he has done any research on self-defense forms? "

After sitting down, Zhang Wei asked Zhou Ming.

Zhang Wei is now a professor at Columbia University, and usually spends most of his time in the United States. This time, he won the Morningside Mathematics Gold Medal. He will appear here when he comes to participate in this session of the World Congress of Chinese Mathematicians .

Otherwise, Zhang Wei would not have appeared in Huaguo.

And Zhou Ming would not go abroad, so the two hardly had the chance to meet each other.

In fact, not only Zhang Wei, but people like Xu Chenyang, Yun Zhiwei, and Zhu Xinwen also went to the United States to serve as professors. Moreover, they all graduated from Peking University and were part of the golden generation of Peking University.

This is why it is said that Peking University's mathematics is the best in Huaguo. After all, evaluating a school should not only be based on how good the professors and teachers are, but also how good the students it trains are.

If there are super talented people in your school, but you don’t have many talented people yourself, then it’s definitely not going to work.

The last time Zhou Ming and Li Mingzhi said that he was going to train one or even several masters for the School of Mathematical Sciences of Huaguo University of Science and Technology, Li Mingzhi was so happy that he went directly to show off with Zhang Mingjie. .

Because once other students see that this school not only has great talents, but also can cultivate great talents, then they want to come to this school, so naturally more students will apply to USTC.

The cycle of education is similar, the good ones get better and better, and the bad ones get worse.

However, in Zhou Ming's view, the real golden generation will start next year, but this golden generation is not the golden generation of Peking University, but the golden generation of HKUST.

As for Zhou Ming's appearance, this cannot be said about the golden generation. After all, the golden generation needs many such people to appear one after another, and when Zhou Ming suddenly emerged, he was the only one who was so powerful.

"Self-preservation? You have some understanding, right?" After Zhang Wei finished speaking, Zhou Ming also said.

The automorphic form mentioned by Zhang Wei here is a term in mathematics, which refers to a special kind of complex variable function, and satisfies the transformation law described by the automorphic factor under a certain discrete transformation group.

The modular form and the Maas form are its special cases.

In a strict sense, automorphic representations are not group representations in the usual sense, but modules on the overall Hecke algebra.

Hearing Zhou Ming said that he understood something, Zhang Wei was overjoyed.

(End of this chapter)