After chatting with that girl Xu Xiao for a while, Xu Chuan hung up the phone.
He never interfered with his sister's choices. At most, he gave his own thoughts and suggestions.
It would also be great if this girl could find a path in chemistry or biology.
Mathematics, physics, or chemistry and biology are all sciences, and there is no distinction between them.
Just waiting for him to go back, Old Tang will definitely complain to him, right?
Xu Chuan suddenly thought of Teacher Tang from Xingcheng No. 1 Middle School and couldn't help but smile.
Speaking of talent, Xu Xiao must have talent in physics, otherwise Old Tang would not have planned to focus on cultivating it before.
But I didn't expect that this girl also changed her mind on her deathbed and ran off to do other things.
Just as I was thinking about it, the phone on the table vibrated again.
This time it was Chen Zhengping, the instructor of NTU, who called.
"Hey, Xu Chuan, are you up?" Chen Zhengping's questioning voice came from the phone.
Glancing at the sun that had already risen outside the window, Xu Chuan smiled and said, "It's already up."
Hearing this, Chen Zhengping smiled and joked: "You are too self-disciplined in your life. You have proved the seven millennium problems and you haven't even held two parties?"
"If this were done to anyone else, the flowing water mat would have to be open for three days and three nights."
Xu Chuan was a little embarrassed and said: "How can it be so exaggerated?"
"Okay, let's get down to business." Chen Zhengping shook his head with a smile and said, "When will you come back? The school will hold a graduation ceremony for you."
After a pause, he continued: "I can't let you go after you have graduated from Princeton."
Xu Chuan was stunned for a moment, then smiled dumbly. He almost forgot that he had not officially graduated from Nanjing University yet.
After thinking for a while, he replied: "At the end of the year, I'll probably go back here around the New Year."
Chen Zhengping frowned slightly and said, "It's too late for you to come back. School was on holiday at that time."
Xu Chuan said nonchalantly: "It's okay, I don't care about this."
Chen Zhengping held his forehead and said helplessly: "You are not particular, but the school is. And if you come back so late, how can you give a speech to other students?"
"Uh." Xu Chuan was stunned again and said, "There's no need to give a speech or something."
"Why is it not necessary? This is Hodge's conjecture, the seven millennium problems. It is no exaggeration to say that you are now the number one person in the field of mathematics in the country. Invite the number one person in the field of mathematics to give a speech. Other schools want to invite No, I am not so lucky."
After a pause, Chen Zhengping continued: "In addition, if you solve Hodge's conjecture, there will be rewards from the school and the city, at least several million. Come back as soon as possible to claim the prize."
Hearing this, Xu Chuan felt dumbfounded, shook his head and said, "Okay, then I'll go back early."
In order for him to go back to give lectures, the school began to lure him with bonuses.
But this time it proved Hodge's conjecture that the reward would definitely be huge.
Not to mention other things, the Clay Mathematics Institute alone has a bonus of one million meters of gold.
As for domestic rewards, whether it is Nanda, Jinling City, Jiangsu Province, the country, or even southern Hunan, the level of rewards is at least several million, and it is not impossible to even break eight figures.
These are Hodge’s conjectures, the seven millennium problems.
Of course, what is more important is to solve the impact and status brought by this conjecture.
Although the Fields Medal is not as prestigious as the Nobel Prize, no university or scientific research institution in the world will refuse a Fields Medal winner to join, whether at home or abroad.
At home, this influence is even greater.
The first Chinese Fields Medal has greater influence and significance than ordinary awards.
If Xu Chuan wasn't too young, he might even have the idea to expand his influence and popularity.
Of course, it is not the kind of feudal superstition, but to try hard to expand his popularity and build him into a figure similar to an academic model.
For a country, the emergence of a world-leading scholar in any field can greatly enhance the self-confidence of the country and the people, and can also drive the development of the entire discipline in the corresponding field. It can even be extended to other fields.
For me, there is currently a great need for such a person in the fields of basic science and natural science.
Those who returned to China before were once promoted to the altar, but due to various constraints, they finally gave up.
Now that a more suitable candidate has appeared, how can we not make people excited.
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At the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, Xu Chuan called for housekeeping to clean up his villa.
The villa was one of the perks offered by Princeton when he became a lifelong fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study.
Other benefits include salary, and there are two.
One is a full professor from Princeton University, with an annual salary of 600,000 meters.
The other is a tenured researcher from the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, with an annual salary of 400,000 meters.
The total of the two salaries is 1 million gold. When converted, his annual salary is almost 7.5 million.
This is just a simple salary, in addition to various other benefits.
Such as scientific research project funds, house purchase subsidies, performance subsidies, subsidies, project commissions and other subsidies.
Relatively speaking, this salary package is amazing.
Even though he proved Hodge's conjecture, he actually didn't have many honors. The two top ones in the mathematics world are the Craford Mathematics Award and the other is the Morning Star Mathematics Award.
Even if he can steadily win the Philippine Award next year, there is still a good comparison standard for the Philippine Award.
For example, after Terence Tao won the Fields Medal in 2006, the salary offered by the University of California to keep him was only an annual salary of 800,000 yuan.
The annual salary of 800,000 meters does not sound like much for a Philippine Award winner.
But this number is actually very good. After all, this is reality. It is not that someone’s per capita monthly income exceeds 10,000, nor is it a certain person’s per capita annual income of one million.
In fact, in China, only about 0.5% of people earn more than 10,000 yuan a month.
Based on a population of 1.4 billion, the number is only 7 million.
Seven million versus 1.4 billion.
This ratio is actually quite small.
The average monthly income per person on the Internet is over 10,000 yuan, and the annual income is one million, which is just the amplification effect of the Internet. You can now find many things on the Internet that you couldn't see or understand before.
Coupled with services such as big data calculations, people and netizens who know how to surf the Internet will have an illusion.
We have to admit that the Internet has a subtle influence on a person. Some extravagant and wasteful social chaos on the Internet in order to attract attention will give some people who have difficulty distinguishing right from wrong a wrong concept of consumption.
In fact, in China, an ordinary university professor's annual salary is about two to three hundred thousand, and this is still a 211 or 985 level professor.
If you don’t go out of your way to fish for some unconscionable things, your income won’t actually be high.
Of course, the courses taught by university professors are fixed every week, and they have a lot of spare time. They can do their own things, or earn extra money based on their abilities. Naturally, they do not just rely on wages to live.
But this still cannot avoid the fact that the wages of domestic scientific research staff are relatively low.
If this were not the case, there would not be so many scientists, professors and other top talents in various fields going abroad to develop or immigrate every year.
In the field of science, relatively speaking, domestic treatment is indeed weak. This is an undisputed fact.
Although there are some compensations in terms of reputation, honor, resources, etc., these things are of little significance if the most basic basic necessities of life, food, clothing, housing and transportation cannot be solved.
After all, people always yearn for a better life.
In modern society, money is not everything, but it is absolutely impossible without money.
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After the housekeeping aunt cleared out the villa, Xu Chuan started moving.
Compared to living in a dormitory of about 20 square meters, he would rather live in a villa.
Especially when he chose this villa himself and lived in it for more than ten years in his previous life.
Although he estimates that he may not be able to live there much longer and will live until next year's International Mathematics Conference, it would be good to experience it again.
Moving alone is a very hard and troublesome thing. Even if he is a grown man and does not have as many clothes, shoes, bags, cosmetics, and other miscellaneous things as girls, he has lived here in Princeton for nearly two years. , still accumulated a lot of things.
In particular, the number of various books, materials and manuscripts was astonishing, so he called his senior brother Lin Feng, who also worked at Princeton, to come over and help.
It took the two of them a whole day to move various things from the dormitory to the villa.
And Senior Brother Lin Feng, who was called over by him to help, was so tired that he collapsed on the sofa in the living room.
After taking out two bottles of drinks from the refrigerator and throwing one to Lin Feng, Xu Chuan also sat on the sofa. The remote control in his hand turned on the TV on the wall, making some noise in the room.
"It's really enviable."
After unscrewing the drink and filling half of the bottle, Lin Feng breathed a long sigh of relief, turned to look at the empty living room and sighed.
Xu Chuan didn't understand what Senior Brother Lin said for a while, and asked casually: "What are you envious of?"
"Of course it's a villa. You live alone in a villa, and it's still in Princeton. Who wouldn't envy you?" Lin Feng said with a smile.
"What's the point of this? It's not my house. It's just provided by Preston for living in. You can also rent one." Xu Chuan said without paying attention.
Hearing this, Lin Feng smiled bitterly and said: "Brother, this is Princeton. Do you know how much it costs to rent a villa here? It costs several thousand meters of gold at least, and I can't afford it. .”
After a pause, he continued: "Not everyone is as rich as you."
Hearing this, Xu Chuan asked in surprise: "I remember your salary is not low, right? A teaching assistant at Princeton earns at least 70,000 to 80,000 yuan a year, plus subsidies, benefits, and other income, here There’s nothing wrong with renting a house, right?”
Brother Lin has now completed his further studies, graduated from Witten, and accepted a position as an assistant professor at Princeton.
Compared to other students, he is still very good.
After all, not every student who graduates from Princeton can stay here.
"But it's impossible for me to spend half of my money on renting a house." Lin Feng shrugged and continued, "And I'm going to prepare to return to China."
Hearing this, Xu Chuan showed a trace of surprise on his face, and asked in surprise: "Return to China? I haven't heard you say that?"
"And you've returned to China, what will you do with your little girlfriend? Aren't you planning to get married next year?"
Lin Feng smiled and said, "She returned to China with me and is going through the immigration procedures."
Xu Chuan was stunned, gave a thumbs up and said: "Awesome! Senior Brother Lin."
Lin Feng took a sip of his drink and continued, "Speaking of which, when I return to China this time, I have something to do with you."
"Um?"
Xu Chuan showed a puzzled expression. Why did this senior brother have anything to do with him when he returned to China?
Lin Feng explained: "Because it is said that our country is about to become a member of the United States. So the country is recalling a group of foreign students and researchers in this field."
"Of course, I don't know whether this news is true or not, but since the news has come out, there is a high probability that it is true. Once the news is officially announced, a group of people will definitely be needed to participate in the work."
"I was previously involved in your scientific research experiment on the mystery of the proton radius, and coupled with my work experience there, people from the National Talent Project team found me some time ago, hoping that I could return to work in China."
"Because of his previous work experience, Kessler, like me, took the talent introduction plan and prepared to return to China to work with me."
Hearing this, Xu Chuan's eyes widened and he said in surprise: "I'll go, why haven't I heard this news?"
Lin Feng looked over in surprise and asked in surprise: "Have you ever been approached by someone from the National Talent Project team?"
"This shouldn't be the case. You are an official researcher of the Institute of Science and Technology. You have solved the mystery of the proton radius, calculated the optimal search decay channel for the Yukawa coupling of Higgs and the third-generation heavy quark, and completed the observation experiment. "
"I thought you were the first to be found."
Xu Chuan shook his head and said, "No one has ever looked for me."
Lin Feng smiled and touched the drink bottle with him, and said, "Maybe it's because your achievements in mathematics are so outstanding that others ignore your achievements in physics."
Xu Chuan smiled and said, "Congratulations, Senior Brother Lin."
Although I don’t know how China agreed to join, I don’t know what the country paid during the negotiation process.
But joining as a member country is definitely great news for both the country and China’s physics researchers.
For a country to become a member, according to the charter, each member's annual contribution ratio determines the member's share of purchasing industrial technology equipment and the proportion of hiring its international staff.
In other words, the contribution share of member states will be partially returned in different forms to promote the industrial and technological progress of member states. At the same time, the larger the contribution share, the more it will help expand the number of domestic employees of member states.
Therefore, member states’ contributions are not a one-way flow, and will produce joint and compound effects that will feed back to member states.
Of course, the treatment of member states in this regard is definitely not as good as that of member states.
But for China, even some technologies after restrictions are a pretty good return.
For physicists in China, there are greater prospects for future development in the fields of high-energy physics, particle physics, and nuclear physics.
With the background of member states, whether it is the application for use of the LHC Large Strong Particle Collider or other scientific research work, it will be more convenient than a simple cooperative relationship.
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As for Senior Brother Lin Feng, these first batch of talents recalled by the country, no matter what, they can definitely develop a world in this new field.
The first comer always has an advantage. The first person to eat crabs can taste the deliciousness of crabs first. Whether in scientific research, political management, or other aspects, this qualification alone is enough. Enough to develop something.
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