"Professor! Am I right?"
After finishing his thoughts, Anthony looked at Li Mu, who had been in front of the video, and asked.
"Correct." Li Mu nodded slightly, but continued to ask: "Then what do you think we should do next?"
Anthony touched his chin and clapped his hands one last time: "That's right! This is the main purpose of constructing an explicit smooth model of each irreducible component of S4."
At this time, Li Mu's face finally showed a smile.
"Very good, very good, you have found the key."
"Your comprehension speed is very good."
After being praised by his idol, Anthony also showed a little shyness on his face: "It's all because of your prompts that I was able to have such inspiration. "
Li Mu smiled and waved his hand: "I just read your entire train of thought, so there is no need to be too modest. The train of thought is often the most critical."
"It's like everyone can relate to the significance of Ricci flow in proving the Poincaré conjecture, but in the end only Perelman did it."
"Okay, your interview is over here. I will probably send you a result notification this afternoon. You can exit the conference room."
"Okay, thank you Professor!"
Anthony said quickly.
At this time, he seemed to suddenly remember that he was conducting an interview, and his face showed nervousness.
The result will be announced tomorrow. Whether he can become his idol's student depends on this time.
Of course, in order to avoid leaving a bad impression on Li Mu, he quickly left the conference room without saying anything nice.
The interviewee's interview is over, but as the interviewer, Li Mu is not over yet.
Soon, a second student entered the conference room.
This student is from Cambridge University and is British. His name is Fariano Riley.
Of course, the interview process was exactly the same as Anthony's.
After a simple self-introduction, Li Mu asked a specific question based on his past papers.
This question may be an extension of their past papers, or it may be a more difficult question in the same field.
In contrast, Li Mu will also give some conditions.
Such interviews are obviously very special for these students. Of course, this can also make them feel Li Mu's sincerity in the interview.
After all, thinking about it, in order to come up with such a topic, Li Mu must have read their papers before and studied them carefully before he could come up with tips that were enough to publish a paper.
Of course, this is just what they think.
In fact, it only took Li Mu a total of ten minutes to go through their papers in his mind, and it only took half an hour to formulate the questions.
For Li Mu's level, one can deduce everything about their paper just by looking at the abstract.
Including the questions he asked, he was able to solve them all easily.
However, this is the case for Li Mu, but it is naturally different for these students. These questions are a test of their personal abilities.
In this way, as time passed, Li Mu's interview gradually came to an end.
The five students in front of me are all excellent.
However, if Li Mu was forced to give a ranking, the one ranked first would be Anthony Alex, who he arranged for the first interview.
The second place is the Chinese student who graduated from the Huaguo University of Science and Technology, Tu Zhizhen.
The third place is another British student who is studying at Oxford University, named Brahms Liszt.
Of course, the next two students are also very good, but in terms of ability and talent, they are a little weaker after all - Li Mu can see this from their problem-solving process and ideas.
He is not stingy about valuing talent. No matter how much he talks about it, Li Mu still believes that talent is the most important thing when it comes to mathematics.
"Finally...it's the boy Yuan Siping's turn."
Li Mu raised his eyebrows, feeling a ridiculous feeling in his heart at this time.
When he first met Yuan Siping, Yuan Siping was still his senior in terms of grade.
As a result, several years have passed and the former senior is now interviewing his graduate students.
For blowing Sting.
Li Mu shook his head with a smile. At this time, another user entered the online conference room, and as the video opened, a familiar face appeared on the display.
The two of them were silent for a while.
Until a moment later, Li Mu was a little stunned.
Although he had considered being as serious as possible before the interview, when he saw this face now, he couldn't help it.
The corners of his mouth rose crazily until he finally burst into laughter.
"Damn it, I just didn't expect that your kid's name would appear on the list I received. What on earth did you think you wanted to apply for my graduate degree?"
"Brother, don't laugh." Yuan Siping shrugged: "Your name is known to everyone from the Pacific Rim to the North Atlantic. Isn't it normal for me to enroll as your graduate student?"
"My admiration for you is as endless as a torrential river..."
Li Mu directly interrupted his showmanship: "Okay, okay, stop talking, time is limited, it's already twelve o'clock, and I haven't had lunch yet."
Yuan Siping was silent for a moment, and then said helplessly: "It's only six o'clock in the morning here!"
Li Mu raised his eyebrows: "Oh? Do you have any objection to this professor's arrangement?"
"No, no, no." Yuan Siping waved his hands quickly, "Your time is the key!"
"I won't talk to you kid anymore." Li Mu shook his head, and his face finally became serious: "Okay, okay, let's put the nonsense aside and let the interview officially begin."
"Hello, classmate Yuan, please introduce yourself for one minute."
Yuan Siping took a deep breath and his face became serious: "Okay, Professor Li."
"I am……"
His self-introduction officially began, and so did his interview.
Li Mu would not go easy on him just because of his relationship.
Although as a graduate tutor, the school will not interfere with any student he chooses to be his graduate student. After all, these graduate students have passed the school's assessment and met the requirements.
But he will naturally not be affected by the relationship.
In fact, the questions he prepared for Yuan Siping were the most difficult among the six.
Yuan Siping is the only one who pursues the direction of mathematical physics.
Therefore, the question Li Mu asked him was related to the theory of dimensional force - who knew that this guy had previously published a paper related to dimensional force.
Since he was willing to challenge the dimensional force theory, Li Mu was naturally willing to satisfy him.
The title is also easy to understand, [Demonstrate the role of dimensional forces in the spontaneous symmetry breaking of the Higgs mechanism].
This question is even a hot research topic in the current physics community.
What Li Mu wanted to see was Yuan Siping's thinking on this issue.
Of course, he also gave some tips.
In this way, time passed slowly.
When Yuan Siping got this question, he didn't complain about how difficult it was.
If the questions Li Mu gave to others could be enough to publish a first-level mathematics paper, then the question he gave Yuan Siping would be enough to publish a top physics journal, such as "Physical Review Letters" or even "Nature". ","science".
Until half an hour later.
Yuan Siping put down the pen in his hand, raised his head, and looked at the monitor.
"Have you finished thinking?"
Li Mu asked with a smile: "If you feel you don't have enough time, you can continue thinking."
Half an hour is only an estimated time, and it is okay to exceed this time.
Of course, this depends on the interviewee's own decision.
Yuan Siping shook his head and said, "I'm done thinking."
"The Higgs mechanism applies spontaneous symmetry breaking to give the gauge boson mass, and in more detail, the vacuum expectation value of the Higgs field is not equal to zero, causing spontaneous symmetry breaking, so the gauge boson will gain mass , while generating a zero-mass boson, but in the process, the dimensional force plays... well, it should be called a Higgs mechanism. "
"It should be able to be described with a formula."
After talking about the transfer video, I wrote a formula on the scratch paper, which combined the dimensional force theory and the Higgs mechanism.
"That's all I can think of."
"If I want to continue to delve deeper, I won't be able to complete it now."
He shrugged his shoulders and admitted honestly.
However, looking at the last formula he gave, Li Mu showed a little surprise on his face.
This kid...
It seems that in the past few years, Yuan Siping has worked hard more than just a little bit!
After a moment, he came back to his senses, and then laughed: "Very good."
"Your interview is over. When you go back, you can continue to think about the question I asked you."
"If possible, this question will be your first topic when you come to Oxford."
Yuan Siping was stunned immediately.
"ah?"
…
(End of chapter)
