Xueba's life simulator

Chapter 190 Ask Professor Zhou to Speak
After exchanging contact information with Yuan Ya, the two had another meal together. It was not until the afternoon that Zhou Ming left Shonan and returned to Luzhou City.

After returning to Luzhou City, Zhou Ming didn't have to run around anymore to attend conferences and award ceremonies. At least Zhou Ming felt that he should have nothing like these things this month.

In the next few days, Zhou Ming was busy researching on Collats' conjecture and some scientific research matters.

However, on the 20th, Zhou Ming received a report submitted by Future Biotechnology Company. After seeing this report, Zhou Ming knew that he would be busy with another thing in the next few days.

The report submitted by Future Biotechnology Company is a report on the research and development of Future Biotechnology Company in 2016.

The short-term research and development goals originally set by Zhou Ming, in his vision, will probably not be fully completed until the end of 2016.

However, due to various reasons such as funds, personnel, and government support, Zhou Ming's one-year research and development plan for the future biotechnology company had to be completed ahead of schedule.

According to the report submitted below, there are about two months left, that is, at the end of October, these research and development plans that are expected to be completed by the end of this year can be completed ahead of schedule.

After Zhou Ming read the content of this report, what he thought of was not making the following research and development plan, but another matter.

When using the life simulator a few times before, Zhou Ming learned that his company will be sanctioned in the next few years, and the purchase of some instruments by his company may become a troublesome matter by then.

In today's society, most of the time a company produces an item, it is impossible for your company to carry out the process from raw materials to finished products.

Once a link in your middle is choked and you can't find a substitute, then your industrial chain will be broken.

Take Zhou Ming's future biotechnology company as an example. Although his company has produced a lot of results since its establishment last year, but if you want to produce many things yourself, you have to use some other people's equipment. .

Do a lot of experiments, not just biological experiments. The higher the precision of general instruments, the more convincing your experiment and the higher the quality of the finished product.

But it is not so easy to make high-precision instruments. Many domestic manufacturers do not have this technology and ability, so they can only buy foreign ones.

As for Zhou Ming's future biotechnology company, once the sanctions that Zhou Ming encountered when using the life simulator happened in the future, many experiments would not be able to be done, and many things would not be able to be produced.

To avoid this from happening, the best way is to master this technology yourself. If others use this to sanction you, you can produce it yourself without using theirs.

As the saying goes, it is better to have one's own than to have one's own. Only by mastering a complete industrial chain can one not be controlled by others in the future.

Therefore, after reading the report sent to him by Future Biotechnology Company, Zhou Ming began to prepare in advance for the sanctions that the company would face in the future, and began to add a plan for the development of Future Biotechnology Company in recent years.

On the 21st, Zhou Ming spent a day working out a rough plan.

Although I had previously learned through using a life simulator that my company would be sanctioned in the future, the specific time of the sanction was different because the direction of his life would be different every time he was simulated, so the time of the sanction was also different.

Therefore, Zhou Ming is not sure which year his company will be sanctioned, but only knows that it will be within the next few years.

As for the general content of the plan, in fact, there are probably two places to start.

One is to slow down the speed of research and development. If the speed of research and development slows down, there will be more idle liquidity. This money will be used to acquire those instrument manufacturers that already have certain technologies, or directly purchase their technologies.

The second is to invest in manpower and material resources to fund research and development while acquiring.

Now that the sanctions have not started, the acquisition should not be too difficult.

And the knowledge that Zhou Ming acquired through the life simulator is rarely related to instrument production, so he can't help with this matter technically, and can only be handed over to the people in the company below to do it by himself.

As for computer-related industrial technology research, since the future smart technology company does not have much profitability, and the research on lithography machines is also being carried out there, this aspect alone is enough to consume money.

No matter how much money Zhou Ming's future biotechnology company can make now, it's only a one-year-old company, and it's impossible to spread too much.

Further research on the hardware technology of the computer industry can only be done after the future smart technology companies have the same earning power as the current future biotechnology companies, or cooperate with other related companies.

Regarding cooperation, Zhou Ming thought of a company.

But in Zhou Ming's opinion, it's not time for cooperation yet.

Because the size of the future smart technology company is still too small, if you cooperate with such a large company, people may not be interested in it, and even if you cooperate, the relationship may not be equal.

Similarly, only after the development of future smart technology companies will it be easy to talk about cooperation.

After handing over the plan he had written to the Future Biotechnology Company, Zhou Ming thought about it in his mind, and finally focused on the Collats conjecture.

"Bring (15) into (24), and then make simple changes, so that some problems between z0 and g(x) should be completely solved..."

After Zhou Ming focused on a pile of formulas on the draft paper, he picked up a pen and wrote on the draft paper with all his heart. While writing, he was still thinking about it.

As for the Collatz conjecture, as early as 1994 in the journal "Results in Mathematics", there was a paper called "Functional Equations Connected With The Collatz Problem" by Lothar Berg and Günter Meinardus.

The main content of this paper "Functional Equations Related to Collats Problems" is to introduce generating functions of iterative maps, derive some linear recursive formulas, and study their properties.

Finally, the two authors of this paper, Lothar Berg and Günter Meinardus, respectively gave two equivalent analytical formulas for the solution sets of rational and linear functional equations of certain generating functions for the unproven conjecture of Collatz .

That is to say, in their paper, by introducing iterative mapping, the Collats conjecture, which was originally a number theory problem, was expressed by a functional equation, turning it into a complex analysis problem.

After being expressed by a functional equation, it is only necessary to prove that the functional equation converges to 1 if the conditions are met, and then the conjecture is proved.

What Zhou Ming is doing now is also following this method to prove that this function equation can converge to 1 under some specific conditions.
Originally, Zhou Ming thought that the remaining days of August would be the same as before, doing math every day, and then going to the laboratory twice, until school started in September.

But life is like a trash can, you never know what you'll find in the next trash can.

In the afternoon, Zhou Ming was still immersed in the ocean of mathematics, when a phone ringing pulled him ashore from the ocean of mathematics.

"Hey……"

After Zhou Ming answered the phone, he realized what happened.

The call was made by Xue Tian, ​​the executive dean of the School of Life Sciences, saying that Luzhou City wanted to hold a biology seminar in order to further formulate the future biological development plan of the science and technology city.

The venue of this seminar is naturally Huaguo University of Science and Technology, the only 985 university in Bai Province.

Zhou Ming is now a well-deserved master in the field of biology. This biology seminar specifically stated that he cannot be rejected without anyone. Under such circumstances, it is definitely impossible for Zhou Ming to refuse to participate.

By asking Zhou Ming also learned that in addition to him and several other biologists from the University of Science and Technology who will participate in this seminar, there will also be engineers from other large biotechnology companies that will soon settle in Luzhou Science and Technology City.

The industries these engineers are engaged in can be roughly divided into four major directions: medical care, food, environment, and energy. From this, it can also be seen that Bai Province has proposed a plan to build a science and technology city in Luzhou City, as well as some preferential policies to attract talents. , It has indeed attracted many enterprises and talents.

As for whether these enterprises and talents can be retained and play their due role, it depends on the development of Luzhou Science and Technology City in the future.

Things seemed to be endless. On the 22nd, Zhou Ming received a call from another person.

The person who called was exactly Yuan Yaxiang whom Zhou Ming met when he went to attend the opening ceremony of the [-]th Huaguo Society of Industrial and Applied Mathematics.

When Zhou Ming extended an olive branch to Yuan Yaxiang, Yuan Yaxiang did not directly accept or reject it. Instead, he said that he would go back and think about it. He also expressed whether he would accept Zhou Ming's invitation in the end and would give Zhou Ming an answer after thinking about it.

Now, the call he made was to be answered by Zhou Ming.

"Hello." After Zhou Ming connected the phone, although he knew who was on the other side, he habitually gave a hello.

Yuan Yaxiang on the other end of the phone heard the voice and knew that it was Zhou Ming who answered the phone, so he said directly to Zhou Ming: "Professor Zhou, I accepted your invitation last time.

I have to say, Professor Zhou, you are very gifted in speech. What you told me after you got off the awarding platform last time made me excited for several days.

Although I am over 50 now, there are some things you said are true. If I can live to be 80 years old, then my current life has just passed 7/10.

If I can live to be a hundred years old, then my current life will only be halfway through, and some things are still worthy of my pursuit.

Even if you are drawing a big cake for me, I will take it. "

Yuan Ya said to Zhou Ming that it seemed that he had made a lot of determination to finally decide on this result.

Hearing what Yuan Yaxiang said, Zhou Ming smiled cheerfully and said to him: "Professor Yuan, don't worry, it won't take more than ten years. After a few years, you will be able to see some of the results I told you at that time."

"However, I still have some things to deal with here. I estimate that I will have to wait until September or October at the earliest to take up a position at your side. I will let you know this in advance." Yuan Yaxiang said again.

After the two chatted for a while, they hung up the phone, and Zhou Ming also called Future Intelligent Technology Company.

Yuan Yaxiang's joining made Zhou Ming very happy, because he knew that Yuan Yaxiang's joining was just the beginning.

After he joined Future Intelligent Technology Company and saw the huge development potential and explosive growth of this new company, he would recommend it to his friends without Zhou Ming having to say anything.

In this way, Zhou Ming's company will soon have several big bosses, and its development will be even faster.

Time flies, and the time soon came to August 26, when the Biology Symposium was held at HKUST.

Although this symposium was not organized by the top, but by the province, the scale was still not small, and there were not only professors from the University of Science and Technology, but also professors from well-known domestic universities such as Peking University, Tsinghua University, and Fudan University.

These professors are either at the academician level, or even if they are not academicians, they have made special achievements in their research fields.

The content of this symposium is different from other academic conferences. This time, everyone does not exchange their research results, but discusses the development direction of various fields of biology in the next few years or more than ten years.

In addition to scholars and professors who study biology and engineers from some enterprises, the leaders of the province are also present at this seminar.

Although these leaders don't know much about things in this field, they will definitely participate in such a major event that is related to whether Bai Province can change its appearance in the future, even if they don't say a word, they still have to listen to it.

"Professor Shi, let's talk about it." After the meeting started, after a middle-aged man finished speaking a few words, he turned to a female professor and said to her.

The one who spoke was Zhou Chunli, the dean of the Huaguo Academy of Sciences, and the female professor surnamed Shi was Shi Wenyu, a professor at the School of Life Sciences of the Huaguo University of Science and Technology, and an academician of the Huaguo Academy of Sciences.

Her team mainly studies epigenetic regulation in the process of gene expression, especially histone modification, chromosome remodeling, regulation of histone chaperones and non-coding RNA, and the interaction between non-coding RNA and protein.

These are mainly related to biological macromolecules, so Professor Shi is also the director of the Academic Committee of the State Key Laboratory of Biomacromolecules, Institute of Biophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, and she and Zhou Chunli are old acquaintances.

"My research field is biological macromolecules, and I will also talk about some of the ideas mentioned by Professor Zhou Ming in his paper on aging in this field of my research. I think they have great development prospects. …”

This Professor Shi said that when she was talking about the issue of aging, she looked at Zhou Ming on purpose. When she finished her speech, she still looked at Zhou Ming and said to Zhou Ming: "Professor Zhou, I don't know if you still have Interested in doing research on aging and epigenetics?"

When Zhou Ming was in school, he was very reticent, and he didn't have much contact with other people, so his relationship with Professor Shi was limited to meeting him a few times.

This time, Professor Shi suddenly brought the topic up to him, and it wasn't the synthetic biology that he had been in the limelight in the past six months, but the aging aspect that he published a paper this year, which surprised Zhou Ming.

(End of this chapter)