Xueba's life simulator

Chapter 189
The judging committee of the Su Buqing Applied Mathematics Award includes a chairman and several members. It is composed of experts in industrial and applied mathematics who are highly respected, have high academic levels, have a good grasp of the overall situation, and are impartial.

Therefore, some of the people who came to participate in the opening ceremony of the Huaguo Annual Conference on Industrial and Applied Mathematics were those who had also participated in the World Congress of Chinese Mathematicians before.

This award ceremony scene was not much different from the ones Zhou Ming had seen before. There was an award platform where the awards were presented, and there was a row of judges sitting on the award platform.

When Zhou Ming walked in, there was almost no one there. He found an empty seat in the front row and sat down, then took out his mobile phone.

Just when Zhou Ming was reading a math question on his mobile phone, a voice pulled him back from the world of mathematics to the real world.

"Professor Zhou, why are you here so early?" When a voice rang in Zhou Ming's ear, Zhou Ming looked up and found that it was a middle-aged man with graying hair.

This middle-aged man wears a pair of short-sighted glasses that most scholars would have. The not so much black and white hair on the top of his head seems to represent his strength.

"I got up early in the morning, so I came here early since I had nothing to do anyway." Zhou Ming said to the middle-aged man with doubts flashing across his face after he took a quick look at the middle-aged man in front of him.

The doubts on Zhou Ming's face at the beginning did not escape the man's eyes. He smiled and said to Zhou Ming: "It's normal that Professor Zhou doesn't know me. My name is Yuan Yaxiang. When Zhou Chunli attended the World Congress of Chinese Mathematicians in the capital The dean told me about you.

But we didn't meet at the time, so it's normal that you don't know me. "

"Mr. Yuan, hello, do you know Dean Zhou?" Zhou Ming concealed his embarrassment, reached out to shake his hand, and at the same time guessed his identity in his mind.

Since he has a relationship with Zhou Chunli, and he has participated in the World Congress of Chinese Mathematicians before, and now he is here to attend the opening ceremony of the 14th Annual Conference of Industrial and Applied Mathematics in China, he must be someone who has made some achievements. A mathematician, and most likely a mathematician working at the Chinese Academy of Sciences.

"I am a researcher at the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the Institute of Systems Science." Just as Zhou Ming was thinking about the identity of the middle-aged man in front of him, Yuan Yaxiang directly explained his identity to Zhou Ming.

The selection of the Su Buqing Applied Mathematics Award is set to be selected every two years, and no more than two winners will be awarded each time.

Therefore, there are always two winners of the Su Buqing Mathematics Award, and it is now the sixth time that there are two winners each time.

The winners of the sixth Su Buqing Applied Mathematics Award are Professor Ying Longan from the School of Mathematics of Peking University and Zhou Ming from the School of Mathematical Sciences of Huaguo University of Science and Technology.

If there was no Zhou Ming, then another winner today would be Academician Yuan Yaxiang, a researcher at the Huaguo Academy of Sciences and the Academy of Systems Science, who appeared in front of Zhou Ming.

However, Zhou Ming and Yuan Yaxiang did not know about this fact that did not happen in this world.

After Yuan Ya revealed his identity to Zhou Ming, Zhou Ming chatted with him for a while. At the beginning, the two chatted with some polite words.

But soon, this Yuan Yaxiang told Zhou Ming what he was researching.

Yuan Yaxiang's main research direction is nonlinear optimization calculation methods, so what he and Zhou Ming discussed were also some of his research on nonlinear optimization methods.

In fact, when Yuan Yaxiang mentioned the nonlinear optimization calculation method, Zhou Ming already remembered that he had heard this name before.

Because one of the four main methods of the nonlinear conjugate gradient method is Dai Yuan's method, the Yuan in Dai Yuan's method is Yuan Yaxiang's Yuan, and this Dai is his student Dai or Hong.

The reason why Yuan Yaxiang talked with Zhou Ming about his research field was mainly because Zhou Chunli mentioned Zhou Ming's research field was very wide when he talked about Zhou Ming with him before.

Especially when Zhou Chunli told Yuan Yaxiang that one of Zhou Ming's research fields involved computers, he also told him that if he had the opportunity to meet Zhou Ming in the future, he must have a good chat with Zhou Ming about this aspect, and he would definitely benefit a lot.

Moreover, Zhou Chunli also cited people like Yi Huaqing and Liao Weiguo as examples, saying that these people rose to prominence because they had some in-depth exchanges with Zhou Ming.

Although Yuan Ya didn't really believe what Zhou Chunli said, after all, Yuan Yaxiang had heard of Zhou Ming's reputation in the field of biology, as well as his reputation for proving the twin prime conjecture and Goldbach's conjecture.

To be able to achieve such great achievements in these two fields that are so different is already incredible enough. Zhou Chunli actually said that Zhou Ming is the same in the field of computers as he is in the fields of biology and mathematics. This is naturally difficult for him. believable.

However, after Yuan Yaxiang read some of Zhou Ming's papers on computers, he believed Zhou Chunli's statement that Zhou Ming's achievements in the field of computers were the same as his achievements in the fields of biology and mathematics.

However, Yuan Yaxiang does not believe that he can make rapid progress in his research field by chatting with Zhou Ming.

After all, scientific research is not metaphysics. If you kowtow to the Bodhisattva, all the problems you encounter later will be solved.

But since I finally met Zhou Ming here today, Yuan Yaxiang finally decided to give it a try.

After Yuan Yaxiang's introduction, Zhou Ming also knew some of his research results.

In the world, Yuan Yaxiang was the first to obtain a series of important results by using subspace technical analysis and calculation methods, and led to a large number of researches on subspace methods, leading to the subspace trust region method, constrained optimization subspace method, nonlinear least squares method and so on. Emergence of spatial methods, etc.

In addition, he also made some breakthroughs in the research of basic optimization algorithms such as conjugate gradient method and quasi-Newton method, and cooperated with his students to propose the nonlinear conjugate gradient method "Dai Yuan method".

Moreover, the optimization method proposed by Yuan Yaxiang has also achieved important practical results. For example, in electronic structure calculation and big data processing, it has solved several application fields including low-rank matrix decomposition, sparse principal component analysis and sparse covariance matrix inverse estimation. core optimization problem.

After learning about Yuan Yaxiang's research results, Zhou Ming also became interested in him and learned about his life.

Yuan Yaxiang was born in 1960 and is a native of Shonan Province. He is 56 years old this year. He graduated from Cambridge University in Yingguo with a Ph.D.

In addition, he has also won the second prize of the National Natural Science Award, the Mathematics Award of the Academy of Sciences of the Developing World, and the first "Feng Kang Scientific Computing Award"...

In addition, he is also an academician of the Academy of Sciences for the Developing World, a corresponding academician of the Basel Academy of Sciences, and a fellow of the American Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics...

It can be said that this academician who has long been engaged in research work in the fields of computational mathematics, applied mathematics, and operations research is a talent worth attracting.

Therefore, after Yuan Yaxiang finished speaking, Zhou Ming also seriously talked to him about computational mathematics and applied mathematics.

When it comes to computers, Zhou Ming understands its development trend better than its specifics. If you really want to talk about purely computer things, Zhou Ming is probably not the opponent of such an academician who has been studying computers for decades.

But when it comes to computational mathematics, Zhou Mingneng can say much more.

Therefore, before the opening ceremony had officially started, and there were not many people present, Zhou Ming began to talk to Yuan Yaxiang about the fields of computational mathematics, applied mathematics, and operations research that he was engaged in.

Computational mathematics is also called numerical calculation method or numerical analysis. Its main content includes numerical solutions of algebraic equations, linear algebraic equations, differential equations, numerical approximation of functions, calculation of matrix eigenvalues, optimization calculation problems, probability statistics calculation problems .

In addition, it also includes theoretical issues such as the existence, uniqueness, convergence and error analysis of solutions.

Applied mathematics is a subject that uses mathematical methods to solve practical problems. It has applications in economics, finance, engineering technology and other fields.

As for operations research, this science is often used to solve complex problems in real life, especially to improve or optimize the efficiency of existing systems, it is a discipline about how to make better use of existing resources.

The basic knowledge of research operations research includes real analysis, matrix theory, stochastic process, discrete mathematics and algorithm foundation, etc.Therefore, operations research is related to applied mathematics, industrial engineering, computer science, economic management and other majors.

Although these are not purely mathematical fields, with Zhou Ming's knowledge and experience about his future self gained from using life simulators so many times, he is also very clear about these subjects with Yuan Yaxiang.

"Professor Zhou, I just finished reading your paper published in the Journal of Intelligent Systems [A Discussion on an Algorithm for Training Neural Networks and Performing Other Tasks].

Originally, I held a different view on some of the future development of artificial intelligence that you mentioned in this paper.

But listening to what you said today, I suddenly had a feeling of enlightenment. Today, I have always personally realized the meaning of what the ancients said, listening to a gentleman is better than reading ten years of books.

Now I finally understand why Dean Zhou told me that if I see you, I must talk to you about things in my research field. "

After listening to Zhou Ming's words, Yuan Yaxiang's face was sincere and excited at first, but then he showed a disappointed expression.

"Hey, I just don't know if I can see the kind of post-elementary artificial intelligence you mentioned in my lifetime.

There is also the algorithm you mentioned that is different from all existing neural network training algorithms. This algorithm is estimated to have to wait until the quantum computer comes out, right?

The current computer based on semiconductor chips is probably at the end of its development, and it may be difficult to continue to develop like before in a few years. "

After sighing, this rare academician in the field of operations research continued to talk to Zhou Ming.

"Professor Yuan, don't worry, you will definitely be able to see these in your lifetime.

In fact, my future smart technology company is already conducting research in this area.

If Professor Yuan can join, I think my predictions about the future development of artificial intelligence in [Discussion on an Algorithm for Training Neural Networks and Performing Other Tasks] will be realized more quickly. "

As he talked, Zhou Ming began to win over this academician of the Huaguo Academy of Sciences. Speaking of which, although his future smart technology company has recruited a lot of people, it seems that there is no academician-level figure so far.

Facing Zhou Ming's sudden invitation, Yuan Yaxiang fell into deep thought.

Seeing this, Zhou Ming said to him again: "If Professor Yuan is worried about remuneration, I can guarantee that my remuneration here is absolutely incomparable whether it is domestic or foreign.

If Professor Yuan is worried about other issues, I would say that there is nothing to worry about...

It seemed that almost everyone had arrived, and the opening ceremony had begun, and the awards were about to be presented, so I went up first. "

Unknowingly, a lot of people had gathered at the opening ceremony. Before Zhou Ming had finished his words to win over Professor Yuan, awards were about to be given on the podium over there, so Zhou Ming had to leave his seat first.

"The recipients of the [-]th Su Buqing Applied Mathematics Award are Ying from the School of Mathematics of Peking University..."

Soon, the host on the awards stage announced the two winners of this Su Buqing Applied Mathematics Award.

Perhaps that Professor Ying Longan from Peking University was much older than Zhou Ming, so he was the one who was introduced first.

It has to be said that this Ying Long Gu sect is indeed quite old.

The Academician Yuan Yaxiang who was just chatting with Zhou Ming in the audience was born in 1960, and this Professor Ying Longan had already graduated from the Department of Mathematics and Mechanics of Peking University in 1960 and was still teaching at the school.

Professor Ying Longyu, who won the award together with Zhou Ming this time, is engaged in the field of partial differential equation theory and its numerical analysis. He has made some achievements in the infinite element method, the mathematical theory of the vortex method and the hyperbolic conservation law equation. Original results.

"The infinite element method proposed by Professor Ying Longan is a combination of the idea of ​​infinite division and the variational method, which is suitable for the calculation of external problems and singular problems. The infinite element method has been obtained in the calculation of problems such as fracture mechanics and stomatology. very successful application.

In addition, Professor Ying Longan also developed a new method to deal with the initial boundary value problem, proved the convergence of the eddy method, and obtained the convergence order..."

The host on the stage began to introduce the research fields and some main achievements of this year's winners in the field of applied mathematics. After introducing Ying Longgan, the host began to introduce Zhou Ming again.

Finally, Zhou Ming and Professor Ying stood on the awarding platform holding an award certificate and a medal, and accepted the photos and videos under the platform.

After the awards were over, Zhou Ming came down from the award platform, found Yuan Yaxiang, and said to him, "Professor Yuan, how are you thinking?"

"Professor Zhou, you are too impatient. You are waiting for me to go back and think about it. Whether I go or not, I will definitely give you a reply in the end."

Seeing that Zhou Ming couldn't wait to look for him as soon as he got off the awarding platform, Professor Yuan also said to Zhou Ming with a smile.

"That's fine, let's leave a contact information..." Zhou Ming took out his mobile phone, stored Yuan Yaxiang's mobile phone number in the mobile phone, and called him, so that it is convenient to save the mobile phone number.

(End of this chapter)