Genius of the Rules-Style System

Morning, half past eight.

In a small hall on the west side of the conference center, people from the standing committee of the academic department were all inside. At a glance, you could tell that there were about a dozen people. The committee review was not completely closed. There were a few old academicians in the back row and at the door watching.

The candidates were sitting inside, with the door closed, and they didn't know what was going on in the conference hall.

Zhao Yi opened the door and walked in. He immediately saw an acquaintance, Professor Huang Zhong from Nancheng University.

"Professor Zhao Yi, this way."

Huang Zhong stood up enthusiastically and waved towards the door. Others also looked over with enthusiasm. They were not that familiar with Zhao Yi, so they did not go to take care of him directly.

Zhao Yi walked to sit next to Huang Zhong and nodded friendly towards the others. He paid careful attention and realized that there were only five academician candidates in the room including him and Huang Zhong?

He had not cared about how many candidates there were, so he asked in surprise, "Are we the only ones in this co-election?"

Everyone else looked over with strange expressions.

Zhao Yi didn't understand at first, but suddenly thought of what Liu Hemin said, "Several participating candidates have abstained from voting." He suddenly felt a little embarrassed. There were only five people in the group. Maybe, maybe, maybe it was because of himself?

In fact, just because Zhao Yi participated in the academician co-optation this year, many nominated candidates simply gave up, resulting in a shortage of academician candidates in the Department of Mathematical Physics.

This year there were seven additional spots for academicians of the Department of Mathematical Physics, but only five were left after the second round of screening.

However, the small number of candidates does not mean that they will be selected.

Occasionally in some years, there will be more candidates than the number of additional places, but according to the rules of the voting process, academician candidates need to obtain the approval of two-thirds of the voters in the academic department.

This is not easy.

There are more than 100 academicians in the Department of Mathematical Physics. The ‘senior academicians’ do not participate in voting. In addition to the academicians who abstained from participating in the co-optation meeting, the total number of voters exceeds 60.

Sixty people, two-thirds of them agree, which means forty votes are needed.

Therefore, the academician candidates sitting here, including Huang Zhong, are a little nervous. They know that the next committee review process is very important, and the people on the committee also have the right to vote. If they can perform well and convince them all to vote, they will be successfully elected as academicians. The possibility will become higher.

In addition, some people are worried about the review process.

It’s not like it has never happened when the Standing Committee of the Academic Department reviews candidates who ‘make things difficult’. It doesn’t really make things difficult, but asks the candidates some other questions, because the selection of academicians is based on two aspects, one is academic achievements and the other is academic ethics.

Some members of the academic department will ask some tricky results and research questions. If they cannot answer them, they may be suspected of academic ethics.

These are all possible things.

Although they also know many people in the Mathematical Physics Department, not everyone is familiar with them after all, and they may encounter situations where they are made things difficult for them.

Huang Zhong was also worried.

Huang Zhong, like Zhao Yi, was participating in the co-election for the first time, and he was also the second youngest among the candidates (the youngest was Zhao Yi). While waiting in the room, he talked with Zhao Yi, After hearing about some 'rumors' about the department review and co-optation voting, concerns were clearly expressed in the words.

"Don't worry, it's no problem. I should be the first one, right? I'll help you find out in advance."

Zhao Yi comforted Huang Zhong and said.

soon.

The internal review of the Faculty Standing Committee began. Zhao Yi was called to the small conference hall by the staff. He walked to the front and center, almost to the podium.

This is the time to introduce yourself.

Zhao Yi looked at the dozens of pairs of eyes in the audience, but he was not nervous at all, because many of them were acquaintances, including those who came yesterday to ask about the 'supersymmetry problem' demonstration. He introduced himself very calmly, "I It's Zhao Yi, a mathematics professor at Yanhua University..."

"Main mathematical and physical achievements include the proof of Kakutani's conjecture, the shaping and demonstration of three-dimensional tremor waveforms, and the demonstration of weakening the twin prime conjecture..."

"Proof of Goldbach's conjecture..."

"Fermat's conjecture..."

"In quantum physics research, I used a computer screening method and discovered the signal of the Higgs particle. At the beginning of this year, European Nuclear Nuclear..."

Every time Zhao Yi mentioned a result, the people in the audience tugged at the corners of their mouths.

He didn't pay attention to the reactions of the people in the audience, but continued to introduce, "Currently, we are studying multi-dimensional space..."

"Ahem!"

A middle-aged man with Chinese characters in the front row finally couldn't help but waved his hand and interrupted, "Professor Zhao Yi, that's it. You passed, no need to continue. We will vote for you in the afternoon, don't worry."

"That's all?"

Zhao Yi was a little confused, "Then I..."

"You can go."

"It's not...this..." Zhao Yi lowered his head and glanced at the 'speech'. He was going to give a ten-minute statement. The first part was just a brief introduction, and the second part was a report on the results in the field of 'analytical number theory'. He also relied on The results of the branch of mathematics 'analytical number theory' serve as the basis for selecting academicians.

result……

Just started and ended? Isn’t the ‘speech preparation’ all in vain?

He was a little bit unwilling and regretful. He looked at the other people in the small conference hall and found that the others nodded neatly, and his eyes almost said, "You should leave quickly! No need for review!"

"move!"

"Don't waste time, change to the next one!"

Zhao Yi walked back to the candidate's room with a little depression.

When he opened the door again, he felt a lot more relaxed. At least there was no problem with the review. He said to Huang Zhong and others, "It's nothing. Don't worry. The process is very simple. Just introduce yourself."

"Don't be nervous."

"come on!"

Zhao Yi's comfort and encouragement may be of some use. At least the academician candidates who participated in the review passed the committee review normally, and no one was directly dismissed.

Probably because there are more co-options than there are candidates, there is no competitive relationship between the candidates, and the atmosphere between them is pretty good, and they are talking and laughing when they stay together.

At noon, the candidates were arranged to have dinner together.

After Zhao Yi participated in the review, he was called to other conference halls and continued to discuss the analysis of supersymmetry problems with several academicians. He did not know about the review. He just came back during lunch. He asked with ease, "What happened in the morning?" How about the review? It's very simple, right? I didn't expect that I also prepared one..."

He didn't finish.

Others looked a little darker.

The review of Zhao Yi by the standing committee of the academic department is indeed very simple. Some members feel that there is no need to go through the process and they can just go through it directly. It is different for others.

Compared with Zhao Yi, the results of others are far behind, so they naturally need to be carefully reviewed.

This is the responsibility of the Faculty Standing Committee.

Their review is mainly focused on academic achievements to prevent issues of 'academic ethics'. If it is later revealed that 'a certain paper by a new academician is plagiarized and compiled', it will definitely become a great shame for the department. The standing committee of the department will be responsible. Among them, because they are responsible for the 'academic ethics' review of candidate academicians.

Therefore, several other candidates were given a good 'embarrassment' by the Standing Committee.

Huang Zhong has been under review for the longest time, because his results are all theoretical physics, which is the study of magnetism of microscopic particles, which involves the strong force, the weak force, and the particle mathematics of several strong forces. You can imagine the difficulty. If you want to It is very difficult to understand.

The review process can be described as ‘the committee is embarrassing Huang Zhong’, or it can be said that ‘Huang Zhong is embarrassing the committee’.

Although the members of the Standing Committee are also academicians of the academic department, academicians of the academic department do not know everything. There is a saying that goes, "Across fields is like a mountain." This is especially true in academic circles.

There are many branches of mathematics and physics.

We know more about the knowledge in the 'small subjects', but it is too broad to expand to the scope of mathematics and physics. It is not easy to understand other contents across the small subjects in the 'big subjects'.

Zhao Yi was able to hear a lot of novel things from Huang Zhong. Let alone a scholar who has never studied particle mathematics, it is definitely a difficult task to understand the results explained by Huang Zhong, as well as the ideas and processes of thinking about the research. challenge.

Fortunately, the review is over.

Several candidates were sitting at the same dinner table, and the atmosphere was very good, regardless of whether the review was easy or not. Huang Zhong and the other four people were nervous and a little worried about the afternoon vote for academicians, but at this level, they were worried. It's no use either.

"If I can't be rated this year, I'll wait a few more years." Huang Zhong said, "Anyway, I just turned 50, so I still have a chance."

Forty-nine, actually.

The other three candidates are different. The oldest one is already 67 years old. After passing the 66-year-old mark for academician age stratification, six academicians need to be nominated together to become an additional candidate for academician. .

If you miss this year's academician election, there is a high probability that there will be no hope in this life because there will be no more results in the future.

but……

In fact, there is nothing to sympathize with.

'Academician' is the highest professional title for domestic scholars, and any hierarchical group has a pyramid-shaped number of people. Most professors are not eligible to participate in co-optation for life, let alone be elected as academicians. Being qualified to participate in the selection of academicians is already an amazing achievement.

In addition, the title of academician is not a certificate of honor. You cannot be evaluated as an academician when you are young. It is difficult to achieve results when you are old. To select academicians again, to a certain extent, is unfair to young scholars who have achieved results.

On this point, Zhao Yi admired He Mingcheng very much.

He Mingcheng is well-known in academic circles, but he has never participated in the election of academicians after he was over sixty years old. He knew that he was unable to make great achievements, so he simply did not take the initiative to do anything.

Of course.

It is normal for some old professors to want to be recognized as academicians and gain recognition for their lifelong academic research. It can only be said that their positions are different depending on their personal positions and ideas.

…

Two o'clock in the afternoon.

The Department of Mathematical Physics officially held a meeting. After a lot of complicated speeches and business transactions, the voting process for the election of academicians began.

Candidates for academician co-optation are not allowed to enter the venue and can only wait outside the venue.

Because the meeting lasted for two to three hours, and those waiting outside were really impatient, Zhao Yi simply went to the venue and walked around. If the co-option meeting had not ended, he would have to submit the information to the department committee in person and submit it to the presidium meeting for review. After the process, he almost wanted to go back to Yanhua University directly.

Inside the venue.

In the voting process for academician co-optation, representatives will initially speak.

This time it was Yu Peiyuan, the director of the Department of Mathematical Physics. He gave a long speech of 7,000 words. The content was almost an announcement, explaining the importance of the co-optation work, expounding his opinions on the co-optation work and emphasizing the importance of fairness and justice. and make a general report on the annual co-optation.

etc.

There is a lot of content in seven thousand words, and everyone in the venue was drowsy.

Fortunately, there is an ending.

After the dean's speech is over, the process of co-option voting will begin. Voting will be conducted for each candidate, and all participants will vote.

There are sixty-four academicians participating in the co-option vote this time. Each person can conduct a secret vote for each candidate.

There are only ‘yes’ and ‘no’ votes in voting, because only yes votes are counted in the end. Participating in the vote and ‘abstaining’ is equivalent to voting ‘no’.

Zhao Yi is the first co-opted candidate.

The voting started from Zhao Yi. The staff quickly collected the votes and after sorting and summarizing them, Yu Peiyuan, who presided over the meeting, announced the results, "The candidate, Professor Zhao Yi, received more than two-thirds of the votes."

All was quiet.

This result is perfectly normal.

The number of votes for academician co-optation will not be announced to the outside world, and will not be disclosed even in the venue. Only a final ranking will be made. If there are several co-option spots, the first few people will be selected.

The next vote is actually interesting.

The second, third, and even fourth candidates did not pass the voting process.

Yu Peiyuan announced the results three times, "The candidate, Professor Zhou XX, received no more than two-thirds of the votes."

"The candidate, Professor Wang XX, received no more than two-thirds of the votes."

"The candidate, Professor Meng XX, won no more than..."

At this time, everyone in the venue started talking.

The Department of Mathematical Physics has seven co-option spots, but in the second round there were only five academician co-option candidates. As a result, three were eliminated in the voting period?

the last one……

Yellow bell!

Forty-nine?

Your main research subject is particle mathematics?

Some old academicians probably felt that it was not good to judge Zhao Yi alone. They found that Huang Zhong was not yet fifty years old and could be considered a young and promising scholar, so they simply voted in favor.

The final round of voting is over.

Yu Peiyuan checked the results nervously, and finally took a long breath and announced loudly, "The candidate, Professor Huang Zhong, received more than two-thirds of the votes!"

He shouted the highest pitch since the co-option began.