Yenching University.

In the conference room of the administrative building.

The meeting being held at this moment was personally presided over by Principal Qiu.

Participants in the meeting included Dean Sun and Dean Zhou of the School of Mathematics, Dean Zheng and Dean Yang of the School of Physics, and many professors from the School of Mathematics and the School of Physics.

There is only one main content of this meeting.

That is to invite Chen Zhou back to school.

To be precise, it should be that Yanda is planning to re-employ Chen Zhou to return to the school to teach.

After SLAC announced the news of the "discovery of glue balls," all the attention of the physics community was focused on SLAC.

Naturally, the same goes for Yanda’s Institute of Physics.

Especially the relationship between Yan University Institute of Physics and so many physics institutes in Yanjing made them pay close attention to this matter.

Dean Zheng of the Institute of Physics is himself a well-known expert in the field of high energy physics.

At the same time, Dean Zheng is also the director of the Institute of High Energy Physics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, where the Yanjing Electron Positron Collider is located.

This is the research institute with the largest number of J/ψ case samples in the world.

The people in the original institute were full of energy every day.

We are counting on the discovery of glue balls to win a Nobel Prize in Physics for China.

But in the end, someone beat him to it and discovered the rubber ball.

One can imagine how much impact this news had on Dean Zheng.

As a result, since the news of SLAC was announced, everyone in the Institute of High Energy, from top to bottom, has felt as if they were wilted.

But this is understandable.

After all, who can not be discouraged when encountering this kind of thing?

The fruits of so many years of hard work by a group of people are about to be harvested, and there will be a harvest.

But suddenly someone got there first and got it done in advance.

This sour and refreshing feeling is really hard to describe...

But that’s what scientific research is all about.

Before you can completely solve a problem, no matter how many clues you have and how many proof conditions you have.

You can’t even say that this subject belongs to you.

Because in the face of scientific research, everyone is fair.

The results are there, and before you get them, everyone has the opportunity to be one step ahead of you.

Therefore, although these researchers at the Institute of High Energy felt helpless, they also felt unspeakably sad.

But they were convinced.

Especially when I saw another news released by SLAC at the same time, that all collider laboratories will be shut down.

They felt even more admiration.

In the face of such pressure, he was able to complete the project of the rubber ball experiment before the collider laboratory was shut down, and finally successfully discovered the rubber ball.

This itself is a very difficult thing, with a few more difficulties added to it.

Therefore, people at the Institute of High Energy, including Dean Zheng, are paying attention to the follow-up news of SLAC.

But who would have thought that after paying close attention, the Professor Friedman they had guessed not only did not say anything, but even had no information at all.

What was waiting for him was a paper on the rubber ball experiment published by an emerging mathematician.

And what this paper is related to is exactly SLAC’s rubber ball experiment.

And this emerging mathematician is actually Chen Zhou, who won two mathematics awards in China after the Chinese New Year some time ago.

Moreover, Chen Zhou also stated at the time that his goal was Goldbach's conjecture and the Fields Medal to be awarded at the International Congress of Mathematicians next year.

There is no mention of physical research...

Moreover, this person has obviously been researching difficult mathematical problems.

In terms of physics, what everyone knows is his research on particle accelerators at the Yanjing National Laboratory of Molecular Sciences, following the director of the Laboratory of Nuclear Physics and Nuclear Technology.

Although the paper on that research was published with Chen Zhou as the first author.

The research results published in the paper are indeed quite impressive.

Including Chen Zhou, he also did very well in his subsequent undergraduate thesis in the Department of Physics of Yanda University.

However, whether these research results are compared horizontally or vertically, they are still a long way from the discovery of rubber balls.

Apart from this, they had never heard of Chen Zhou's other research results in physics.

Including the six months since Chen Zhou went to MIT, I have never heard of him making any special contributions.

Even though Chen Zhou had previously posted his first draft paper on the preprint website e-Print arXiv.

But still no one connected the discovery of the rubber ball with him.

No one would believe that he was the reason why SLAC discovered the rubber ball.

On this point, researchers from the Institute of High Energy and foreign physicists have the same views.

They all regarded the first draft of the paper as Friedman's "homework" for Chen Zhou.

It was not until Physical Review Letters that the final version of the paper completed by Chen Zhou was published.

Only then did everyone realize that things might not be what they imagined.

But the more this happens, the greater the shock Chen Zhou brings to the researchers at the Institute of High Energy.

After all, these things are connected together. No one would have thought that the discovery of the rubber ball would be caused by a young mathematician from China.

While Gao Neng was helpless, Dean Zheng also immediately realized that Chen Zhou was in the joint training program between Yanda and MIT.

Therefore, as soon as he returned to Yanda, he immediately found Dean Zhou.

Once the two of them got together, they planned to join hands with people from several colleges to make suggestions to the school and to Principal Qiu.

However, they haven't set out to find anyone from Shuyuan yet.

Dean Sun and Dean Zhou from several colleges found them first.

The idea is the same, that is, just do it.

Thus, today’s meeting at Yanda came into being.

It has to be said that Yanda attaches great importance to this matter.

The academician and president of the school, the deans and deputy deans of the two "lunatic asylums", and many well-known domestic professors gathered together just to discuss Chen Zhou's matter.

However, the entire meeting process was not fast.

It’s not that there’s anything I agree or disagree with about the content discussed at the meeting.

Facing such a student, he may soon win the Nobel Prize in Physics and the Fields Medal.

Everyone here can really find no reason not to stay.

Just, how to implement this.

In other words, does Chen Zhou have such thoughts and would like to stay abroad for a while?

This is all uncertain.

And, no matter what, from Chen Zhou's point of view, he has not yet completed the joint training plan.

Chen Zhou has not yet completed his studies as a master and doctoral student at MIT.

Although this is somewhat insignificant to Chen Zhou.

But judging from his past performance, he should be planning to continue his studies until he graduates with a Ph.D.

This idea is not someone else’s.

It was proposed by Professor Wu Xiping from the School of Mathematics at Yanda, who is most familiar with Chen Zhou.

As soon as this idea was expressed, it was immediately approved by Professor Zhang Zhongyuan from the School of Mathematics and Dean Yang from the School of Physics.

It can be said that among the professors at Yanda, those who know Chen Zhou best think so.

"Then when will he graduate?" Principal Qiu asked thoughtfully.

Wu Xiping shook his head: "Although judging from his current academic achievements, he can graduate at any time, but it's hard to say when exactly."

Dean Yang also said: "The joint training program he entered is also a double major in the Department of Mathematics and the Department of Physics. It is really hard to determine the time. It depends on what topic he wants to take as his graduation thesis."

Principal Qiu frowned slightly. If you say this, the time is really hard to determine.

But the most important thing is whether Chen Zhou has any plans to return to China.

Although Chen Zhou had clearly responded to the issue of studying abroad because of the "Flag for Young Talents" issue.
To be continued...