Start as a top student and move towards the stars and the sea

"Mr. Xu, I can't be so absolute. This conference is definitely to enhance the application value of various academic results, but I don't think that before doing any topic, we must require that the results be completed within a short period of time. It can be applied.”

After a pause, Ning Chen continued:

"Especially some mathematical problems may not have any practical significance in the short term, but in the long term, they are very necessary. The most important thing is to find a key balance between the two."

For example, as early as the 16th century, people proposed the concept of imaginary numbers, but for more than two hundred years, people did not find any application value of imaginary numbers.

But in modern times, people have gradually realized the significance of imaginary numbers. Even in some physical problems, it is difficult to describe these problems without imaginary numbers.

Therefore, when doing scientific research, it is not necessary to determine the significance of these studies before doing the research. This is also the charm of academic research.

What Ning Chen felt he wanted to avoid was the kind of subjective "water paper" or even situations involving "academic fraud".

After listening to Ning Chen's explanation, Xu Zhou also felt that Ning Chen's words were indeed very reasonable.

"Yes, as you said, we do need to find a balance between the two. Studying these topics with high application value can allow us to make progress quickly. And studying those basic subjects and some things that may not be possible for the time being Finding out what application direction we can apply may increase our upper limit in the future."

Seeing that Xu Zhou finally changed his mind, Ning Chen also smiled happily.

Near the start of the meeting, Ning Chen and others came to Yanjing together.

This time, more than a dozen teachers from Shengzhou University received the qualifications to participate in the conference. In addition to Ning Chen and Xu Zhou, Yang Lianhua and Song Xiyun from the School of Science also obtained the qualifications to participate in the conference.

The venue of this meeting is at the Chinese Academy of Sciences, which further confirms Ning Chen's previous conjecture that this academic meeting will be more oriented towards practical research.

On the day when the meeting started, Ning Chen and others arrived at the meeting and saw many familiar faces.

After seeing Ning Chen, everyone took the initiative to say hello to Ning Chen and chatted about some scientific research-related topics.

Seeing Ning Chen's popularity, Xu Zhou couldn't help but said to others:

"Teacher Ning is really popular. Almost all the experts here know Teacher Ning."

"Of course, Teacher Ning often goes to various places to do projects and has academic exchanges with experts in many other fields. Although Teacher Ning is young, he has a lot of experience. Everyone also likes to communicate with Teacher Ning. kind of problem."

Yang Lianhua had a better understanding of Ning Chen's situation. Even he, an old professor, was not as good as Ning Chen in this aspect.

Listening to their conversation, Song Xiyun felt a little happy in her heart, as if this was a compliment to herself.

After a while, Yue Jiafeng also came to the conference room and came directly to the stage.

It seemed that Yue Jiafeng was the organizer of this meeting, and everyone quickly focused their attention on Yue Jiafeng.

"Professor Yang, who is this?"

"Oh, this is Academician Yue Jiafeng, an expert in quantum physics at the Chinese Academy of Sciences."

Hearing the name "Yue Jiafeng", Xu Zhou's eyes immediately changed.

"It turns out to be Academician Yue Jiafeng. I have heard of Academician Yue Jiafeng for a long time. The Galaxy Quantum Computer project was initiated by Yue Jiafeng. Even in the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Academician Yue is one of the top experts."

"Yes, now Academician Yue has taken part of his energy away from scientific research and put it into management work. Academician Yue's management ability is also very strong, and he can well plan various scientific research directions and confirm various topics. How valuable is it and determines the establishment of scientific research projects..."

Just when they were talking about Yue Jiafeng, Yue Jiafeng seemed to have noticed Ning Chen's arrival, and hurriedly came to Ning Chen's side, chatting with Ning Chen about something unknown.

Seeing this situation, Xu Zhou and Yang Lianhua also felt a little bit dumbfounded.

"Of course, age aside, Teacher Ning is naturally a better scholar. Otherwise, Academician Yue would not have such respect for Teacher Ning."

However, they didn't know that even for the Galaxy Quantum Computer project, Yue Jiafeng was only the nominal person in charge, while Ning Chen was behind the whole project.

When chatting with Ning Chen, Yue Jiafeng changed his usual serious mood and smiled. It was obvious that Yue Jiafeng really liked and admired Ning Chen from the bottom of his heart.

After all the experts arrived, the meeting officially started.

Just as Ning Chen had just thought, this meeting was indeed hosted by Yue Jiafeng, and the theme of the meeting was to determine the future scientific research direction for everyone.

"I believe that all experts have paid attention to the previous launch of aircraft carriers into the sea. This is an important milestone in the development of our science and technology, marking that our naval strength has been raised to a whole new level. You may wonder why we have launched a new aircraft carrier in a short period of time. Such great progress has been made within..."

After hearing what Yue Jiafeng said about this topic, the expressions of the experts present immediately became more serious.

This is something that even ordinary people are very concerned about, and these experts will naturally pay more attention to this matter.

Everyone also hopes to get more relevant details from Yue Jiafeng today.

"Due to confidentiality reasons, I cannot tell you too many details about the design and construction process of these two aircraft carriers, but what I can tell you is that we have made rapid progress in many aspects of academic and scientific research over the years. improvement.

The most obvious thing is that we have developed better steel materials for aircraft carriers, which can give our aircraft carriers stronger basic qualities. The breakthrough in nuclear power plants allowed us to successfully possess the first nuclear-powered aircraft carrier..."

At this time, Xuzhou felt a little proud, because the steel materials used in these two aircraft carriers were researched by himself, Ning Chen and others.

Ning Chen, on the other hand, looked calm and calm. Even though he had a lot of credit for this, Ning Chen could still maintain a relatively peaceful attitude.

Yue Jiafeng first focused on some issues in materials science. The research of materials science has very important value in various fields. Although it is jokingly called one of the "four major tiankeng" majors, the significance of this major is self-evident. And metaphorical.

In the future, Yue Jiafeng encourages all materials experts to continue to explore some new materials.

These new materials may be able to improve some of the defective properties of traditional materials, or they may be materials that may not have immediate application significance, but they can be used to study some basic theories.

In addition, in terms of mathematics, Yue Jiafeng also encourages everyone to study various new theories or solve some unsolved mathematical conjectures.

Mathematics is the foundation of all subjects, and it determines the upper limit of the development of various subjects. Yue Jiafeng firmly believes in this.

After talking about the professional directions of various disciplines, Yue Jiafeng continued:

"Finally, I would also like to talk about computers and artificial intelligence. I feel that now is a completely different academic era. In the process of scientific research, it is inevitable to leave the help of high-performance computers and artificial intelligence. We must adapt and Get used to such scientific research methods, but at the same time, you should not be overly dependent on them..."

Ning Chen was a little surprised by Yue Jiafeng's point of view.

This is not because Ning Chen disagrees with Yue Jiafeng's point of view. In fact, this is a concept that Ning Chen also supports very much. It's just that Ning Chen still didn't expect to hear such a point of view from others.

Perhaps Yue Jiafeng is not as good as Ning Chen in terms of academic and scientific research capabilities, but in terms of academic and scientific research concepts, Yue Jiafeng has indeed reached an extremely high level.

With such a person leading the development of Xia's scientific research community, Ning Chen felt filled with hope.

After the first day of the meeting, Yue Jiafeng invited Ning Chen to his office and continued to chat with Ning Chen in depth.

"Teacher Ning, due to time constraints before the meeting, I couldn't talk too much with you. Now, I can finally have a good chat with you."

In fact, after the meeting just now, Yue Jiafeng still felt a little tired, but Yue Jiafeng didn't want to miss the opportunity to communicate with Ning Chen.

Especially at this point when two new aircraft carriers had just launched into the sea, Yue Jiafeng still had many things he wanted to talk to Ning Chen about.

Yue Jiafeng was one of the few people who knew that Ning Chen participated in the design of these two aircraft carriers. After learning about the specific conditions of these two aircraft carriers from Ning Chen, Yue Jiafeng was in awe of Ning Chen.

"I really didn't expect that Teacher Ning could play such an important role in the design of these two aircraft carriers. If everyone knows about this, Teacher Ning's status in people's minds will be greatly improved. "

After hearing what Yue Jiafeng said, Ning Chen quickly waved his hands and said:

"Academician Yue, please stop putting pressure on me. If this matter really gets out, I'm afraid I won't be able to sleep well every day."

Ning Chen knows that being a scientific researcher is certainly a very honorable job, but if it involves too many researches in applied fields, and if you talk about these things in a big way, you will undoubtedly push yourself into a pit of fire. .

Such a talent would be a national treasure to the country, but to the enemy, it would be a dangerous existence.

Yue Jiafeng naturally knew Ning Chen's worries and said with a smile:

"Don't worry, Teacher Ning, we will definitely keep these things strictly confidential. Even if you want to say it, we won't let you tell it."

After talking about the two aircraft carriers, Yue Jiafeng continued:

"In fact, people who really know the internal situation know the contribution that Teacher Ning has made to us over the years. To some extent, without Teacher Ning, we would be in a completely different situation now."

If technologies including but not limited to high-temperature superconductivity, steel materials, quantum computers, nuclear power devices, etc. are all led by Ning Chen, this is enough to prove how much positive influence Ning Chen has had on the entire Xia Kingdom's scientific and technological community.

"Academician Yue received the award. It's not enough for me alone. Many projects require the joint efforts of everyone."

"Okay, Teacher Ning, please stop being modest. You will need to take on more arduous tasks in the future. You also know that I am not young anymore and it is impossible to maintain such high-intensity work all the time."

Ning Chen understood the meaning of Yue Jiafeng's words, nodded and said solemnly:

"Don't worry, Academician Yue, I will definitely shoulder my responsibilities."

The next day, Song Xiyun suggested that she and Ning Chen go to Yanda to visit. Ning Chen also thought that he would go to Shuimu University to see Professor Qiu Chengtong, and made an appointment with Song Xiyun to visit Shuimu and Yanda together today.

In fact, at this meeting, Ning Chen originally thought that Qiu Chengtong would appear in the meeting, but in the end Ning Chen did not find Qiu Chengtong.

However, Ning Chen met a few acquaintances from the Mathematics Department of Shuimu University, and they all had a close relationship with Qiu Chengtong. Ning Chen felt that Qiu Chengtong should also know about the existence of this meeting.

Ning Chen and Song Xiyun first came to Shuimu University and found Qiu Chengtong's office in Jingzhai Building together.

Ning Chen was also very excited to see Qiu Chengtong, whom he had not seen for a long time, and quickly greeted Qiu Chengtong.

"Professor Qiu!"

"Teacher Ning, Teacher Song, I'm so glad to see you."

After the three of them greeted each other, Qiu Chengtong asked them about their purpose of coming to Yanjing this time.

"If I guess correctly, you should all come to Yanjing for a meeting this time, right?"

Ning Chen did not answer immediately, but asked:

"Professor Qiu, why didn't you go to the meeting this time?"

"Hey, I won't be involved in these things. I'll just let my students handle them. I'm already very old, and I still do more education and management work. The future will be your young people's world."

Ning Chen can also understand Qiu Chengtong's thoughts. Now Qiu Chengtong is already very busy with his daily work, and it is difficult for him to devote himself to other work.

However, Ning Chen could also see that Qiu Chengtong still cared about these things very much, but Qiu Chengtong wanted to help everyone achieve this goal in another way.

"How about it, Teacher Ning, do you have any new research directions in mathematics now?"

After hearing Qiu Chengtong's question, Ning Chen said helplessly:

"I haven't thought of any good direction yet, so I would like to ask Professor Qiu to give me some advice."

It is indeed not an easy task to find a suitable research topic in the direction of mathematics.

If it was a relatively common topic, Ning Chen wouldn't have much interest in researching it.