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Seeing Ning Chen come to the laboratory, Xu Zhou was also a little surprised.

Ning Chen, you just got off the plane yesterday and are you coming to the laboratory today?

Xu Zhou knew that Ning Chen's journey was not an easy one. With two round-trip transfers and the flight time, it would take more than twenty hours in total.

If it were me, I would have to take another day off to catch up on jet lag or something.

Hey, I didn't come directly to the lab yesterday, I was already lazy enough.

How do you feel about this award ceremony? You met many academic leaders, right?

It feels good. Well... I met Simon Donaldson, James Simmons, and...

Although Xu Zhou didn't know much about the academic world of mathematics, he still knew the names of these big guys.

Hey, these people are either Fields Medal winners or the top 100 richest people in the world. I feel that our classes are completely different.

I just met and chatted with them and left each other emails. You are my mentor. Can I be higher than you in terms of class?

After joking with Xu Zhou, Ning Chen felt a lot more relaxed.

After the two chatted for a few minutes, they didn't say any more and went to work on their own experiments.

Ning Chen still continued to practice the experiment reproduction, hoping to use this to quickly reach 1,000 points in his materials science experience before deciding on the next specific research topic.

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With reports from major media, the news that Ning Chen won the Simmons Scholar Award was constantly spread and discussed on the Internet.

Many people did not know about this award before, but after learning about it in detail, they all know how important this award is.

Although the difficulty and influence of winning the Simons Scholar Award are not as high as the Nobel Prize, Fields Medal, and Turing Award, in the world of academic circles, the Simons Scholar Award is definitely a world-class academic blockbuster. Award.

The scholars who can receive this award are the top researchers in various research fields.

Ning Chen won this academic award at the age of less than 20 years old, setting a record for the youngest winner of the Simons Scholar Award.

Discussions about Ning Chen on the Internet continue to rise. Many netizens believe that Ning Chen will have the opportunity to win the highest award in mathematics - the Fields Medal in the future.

Great, China finally has a mathematician who is expected to win the Fields Medal. At the age of nineteen, he successfully solved Qiu Chengtong's conjecture and won the Simons Scholar Award. This is incredible. Achievements!

I have been very optimistic about Ning Chen since he won five gold medals and one silver medal in the autumn competition. Ning Chen really did not disappoint me!

This is the star we should really pursue, the role model for young people in China!

In addition to these positive discussions, there are also some negative voices on the Internet.

Isn't it just proving a conjecture? What practical significance can it have? Can it create a chip or send a rocket into the sky? It is better to study some results with application value.

It won't be long before he goes abroad, right? In the end, all the talents our motherland managed to cultivate went to build the United States.

That is, the money we have is better distributed to the elderly in the mountains so that their lives can be better.

Fortunately, there are only a few netizens who make these negative voices, and their negative voices are quickly drowned out by righteous netizens.

The significance of studying mathematics is self-evident. Whether it is a chip or a rocket, it involves a lot of important mathematical knowledge.

It is undoubtedly a very short-sighted behavior to ignore the research of basic knowledge and only consider those immediate interests.

Ning Chen didn't pay attention to these voices on the Internet, and focused his energy on experiments.

During this period, James Simmons sent an email to Ning Chen again, asking Ning Chen about coming to study at MIT.

Ning Chen also knew that he had to give Simmons a positive reply.

In the email, Ning Chen first expressed his gratitude to Simons and the Simons Foundation, and expressed his respect for MIT.

However, Ning Chen still feels that he is more adaptable to the domestic environment, so he will stay in the country for the time being to continue his studies and research.

Simmons also expressed his understanding of Ning Chen’s decision and welcomed Ning Chen to come to MIT for exchanges if he had the opportunity.

Finally, Simons said that mathematics has no borders, and the development and application of mathematics are the common wealth of all mankind. No matter where Ning Chen conducts research in the future, the Simmons Foundation will do its best to help Ning Chen.

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Finally, through continuous experiments every day, Ning Chen's materials science experience reached 1,000 points.

The magical feeling of reorganizing knowledge appeared again. Feeling the changes in his understanding of materials science, Ning Chen felt that his brain had a very comfortable excitement.

Seeing that his material science subject level had finally been raised to Level 2, Ning Chen felt joy in his heart.

Wait a minute... My level of physics and chemistry seems to have suddenly improved slightly.

Ning Chen was very confident in his memory, and coupled with his special sensitivity to numbers, Ning Chen quickly noticed the changes in the experience values ​​of these two subjects.

Ning Chen felt that perhaps his physics and chemistry had benefited from the sorting effect brought by the subject level of materials science.

Feeling the benefits brought by the improvement in subject level, Ning Chen felt that he was capable of starting his next research topic.

These days, Ning Chen has focused most of his energy on the research of superconductivity. He has gained a lot from the repeated experiments on various superconducting materials and has developed strong experimental operation capabilities.

Ning Chen was thinking about whether to use the functions in the system backpack to help him find the direction of the experimental topic faster.

Currently, the two most powerful functions in Ningchen’s system backpack are “brain simulation” and “excitement mode”.

If you compare these two functions, the brain simulation function has more powerful simulation capabilities and has fewer side effects.

However, Ning Chen currently only has three simulations left, and there are still eight hours left in the excitement mode.

Ning Chen decided to use the excitement mode first. After all, the excitement mode could end at any time, while brain simulation could only be used a certain number of times, so the opportunities were relatively more precious.

Thinking of this, Ning Chen said silently in his mind:

System, turn on excitement mode!

[Excitement mode has been turned on for the host]

Immediately, Ning Chen felt that his brain began to get excited.

This excitement made Ning Chen overload his brain in a short period of time. Ning Chen couldn't think too much and quickly started thinking about superconducting materials.

An hour later, Ning Chen had a clearer idea of ​​his future research direction. At this time, Ning Chen didn't want to continue to waste time in the excitement mode, so he immediately turned off the excitement mode.

As the excitement mode ended, Ning Chen felt that his brain began to fall into a state of extreme fatigue.

According to this state, Ning Chen would probably have to sleep for more than ten hours that night before he could completely return to his original state.

Seeing that now was the time to try out the Restore Energy function, Ning Chen continued to recite silently in his mind:

System, use the energy recovery function once!

[The energy recovery function has been used for the host]

Almost instantly, Ning Chen felt that the extremely tired state in his brain disappeared.

This feeling was as if Ning Chen had just experienced more than ten hours of rest.

Just as the previous system described the energy-restoring function, this function only mainly acts on the brain level and has no obvious impact on the body.

What an incredible ability... What exactly is the principle behind this?

With Ning Chen's current ability, he is still unable to conduct an in-depth exploration of the system's functional mechanism, so he can only ignore these issues for the time being.

Ning Chen first sorted out in detail what he had just thought in the excitement mode.

If he didn't use the energy-restoring function, Ning Chen could only support himself in the shielded state to complete the rest of the work.

However, Ning Chen now seemed to have just woken up naturally from sleep, and his energy was even stronger than before he turned on the excitement mode.

Even until two o'clock in the morning, Ning Chen still didn't feel any tiredness, so he had to try to use breathing techniques to fall asleep.