Scholar’s Advanced Technological System

It’s always coming.

The last day of July.

Even if there were tens of thousands of reluctances in his heart, Lu Zhou finally stopped the unfinished research and began to pack his bags and prepare to travel to St. Petersburg to attend the International Congress of Mathematicians, which will be held in early August.

As for the 60-minute minute report meeting, after a period of inner struggle, Lu Zhou finally chose to be safe, and made a work on his work in the field of Riemann's zeta function in the past few years. A brief summary, then upload the paper to the website of the International Congress of Mathematicians.

In fact, this is actually the correct posture for reporting at the International Congress of Mathematicians.

Whether it is a forty-five or sixty-minute report, it is not intended to be a release for a major research effort. It is just a platform for scholars who have made outstanding achievements in various fields. The results of the year's research are summarized in a summary report.

After all, for many significant topics, especially in the field of number theory, it is too difficult to make some achievements within a few years.

Even if you think that you have paid the time and energy, you will be rewarded. It is a naive thing.

"Xiaoai, do you want me to bring a jacket in the past?"

In August, Jinling was still in the summer. It was too hot to wear a short sleeve to go out, but I heard that the weather in St. Petersburg has started to turn cold. I don’t know if it will be cold after going there.

Drooping and floating in the side of the Luzhou, the drone with a small TV hangs over a string of text at a uniform speed.

Xiao Ai: [... St. Petersburg is located on the Baltic coast of northwestern Russia, with a latitude of 59-60 degrees north latitude. It belongs to the temperate continental climate. The temperature range in August is between 13 and 20 degrees. Although the temperature is not high, it is recommended that the owner wear a A windbreaker or leather jacket, pay attention to prevent colds. (??????)??]

"This way... then take this trench coat with you."

From the small TV, I took back my sight and watched that I had already filled the suitcase. Lu Zhou thought for a while, pulled out a few short sleeves from the inside and threw it back into the closet, and replaced it with a black windbreaker jacket.

He remembers this dress, the last time he went to Berlin to receive the prize.

It’s been so many years in a blink of an eye, I didn’t expect it to fit on my body.

Thinking of this, Lu Zhou kept feeling in his heart.

It seems that the legend about "who proves the Riemann conjecture, who will be immortal" is really not based on any basis.

He also proved a weak form of the Riemann conjecture - the quasi-Riemann conjecture, which has already begun to bear fruit in the eternal youth.

Just as Lu Zhou was smug in his heart, the little TV that floated beside him, the screen suddenly flashed slightly.

Xiao Ai: [Master, there is a video call request, see ip is from the North American side ~ (?????)]

Xiao Yan?

Or is it Vera?

I didn’t ask who it was, Lu Zhou said directly: “Help me pick it up.”

Xiao Ai: [Received! (??????)??]

The screen on the screen flashed and quickly cut to the interface of the video call.

Looking back at the person who appeared on the screen, there was a slight accident in Lu Zhou’s eyes, but he did not expect that the call was made by him.

"Wei Wen?"

"……professor."

Lu Zhou smiled and said: "Hey suddenly thought of calling me?"

"Because of some things..." The expression opened a bit awkwardly, but at this moment Wei Wen suddenly noticed the baggage that Lu Zhou was packing, so he curiously asked, "Are you planning to go to St. Petersburg to attend the imu conference? ?"

"Well, there is a 60-minute report there that will wait for me to go... Say, how have you been doing recently? Listen to Qin Yue, you seem to have got the qualification of lecturer in computational materials at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Is life still used to it?"

Just when he said this sentence, I don’t know why, the expression of Wei Wen in the video suddenly became bitter.

I saw him shaking his head and sighing.

"Not very good, don't mention it, I am... I am getting lost."

unemployment?

The hand that sorted the suitcase stopped and squatted at the Luzhou station next to the suitcase and got up, and turned the unexpected sight to Wei Wen in the small TV, frowning.

"Unemployed? What is the situation? Are you in trouble?"

In Lu Zhou's impression, Wei Wen's academic ability is good, especially in the mathematical modeling talent is quite brilliant. Since he turned to the study of computational materials science under his own opinion, he has fully utilized this talent, and it is said that he has published three articles in the top four magazines.

Lu Zhou really can't think of it, and MIT has any reason to reject such a good scholar.

Not to mention his own apprentice...

Even if it is with this aura, it will not be so mixed with unemployment.

Seeing Lu Zhou seems to be a little unclear, probably guessing what Wei Wen, because of a bitter smile, said: "Are you recently closed?"

Lu Zhou frowned and asked: "Is it ok... does this have anything to do with it?"

"It doesn't matter, but you didn't even hear it... a little unexpected," sighed, Wei Wen continued. "Not just the trouble I have encountered alone, now the entire Chinese MIT science and technology scholars, It’s not so good recently...”

After spending five minutes, Wei Wen simply told Lu Zhou about the cause of the matter.

It turned out that in early July, the White House suddenly issued a special decree signed by the president, requiring the embassy to tighten the issuance of visas for study abroad.

On the surface, this seems to have nothing to do with the mathematician who is a lecturer at mit.

But in fact, almost after the signing of this decree, mit, Stanford and other major universities of science and technology have suddenly turned their attention to the lecturers and professors of Chinese nationality in the past, not only tightening the issuance of research funds, but even normal. The teaching behavior has taken restrictions.

Not only have they been faculty members who have worked for a few years, but even some scholars who have worked in the United States for more than a decade but have not obtained US citizenship have been seriously affected.

According to the grapevine news, the reason for this is because people from the fbi area have talked about the board of directors of major universities of science and technology. Although it has not affected the work for the time being, such news has made many bloggers, lecturers and professors who are working at mit feel chilling...

"...In fact, as early as two years ago, I saw some signs, but I didn't expect to develop this step now."

Lu Zhou said for a moment, "How do you say?"

Sighing, Wei Wen continued: "The nominal MIT global enrollment standard is based on the ability of 'academic ability, personality traits, global vision', but these two years are from a Chinese university. No, in fact, since then, such a strong school of science and technology has become unfriendly to us."

Lu Zhou nodded and said: "This is a bit unusual."

Although there is no explicit provision, the list of admissions issued by mit and Stanford in the past two years does not exist for students from mainland China. The only Chinese students are from high schools in the United States.

Now, the situation encountered by mit Chinese nationality scholars is obviously further aggravated on this basis.

"...the academic environment is becoming less and less friendly now, and ten years ago it was completely a heaven and a ground. I talked to a Chinese material science professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology about this issue some time ago, China is in nuclear fusion. The achievements of a series of cutting-edge sciences, such as the Moon Palace, have stimulated the most sensitive nerves in the United States."

"Especially when the Ares plan failed last year, you saw it. The whole of North America is a buzz. The pessimistic mood is causing the re-emergence of McCain/Sinism. You even noticed when you were in class. The hostility of some white students is not just a matter of racial discrimination."

Having said that, Wei Wen’s tone is also a bit of a taste.

"Now the entire academic community is spreading, and Congress will soon introduce stricter restrictions on the bill, which is very heart-wrenching. I don't know how long the job can last. Maybe tomorrow, maybe the day after tomorrow, maybe one day suddenly I will be unemployed. ”

Lu Zhou: "You are studying mathematics, is there any influence in this area?"

"I did not study pure mathematics after all, and I also cooperated with mit's materials science laboratory. Then someone suspected that I was a spy, and people from fbi came to me." Here, Wei Wen feels that he I shook my head with a funny smile. "The spy who helped them with the experimental data and the spies who helped them with the research... Hey, if the paper hasn’t been sent yet, I want to apply for a withdrawal."

Lu Zhou was silent for a while, and said: "...If you can't get along, come to Jinling. Now the academic atmosphere here is very good. What is your annual salary at MIT? I will give you the same according to the current exchange rate. of."

Although Wei Wen was indeed ready to return to China before making this call.

But I don't know why, after hearing the invitation of Lu Zhou, he began to seriously think about this issue, but he finally hesitated.

Silenced for about a minute, he bit his teeth and said.

"Thank you……"

"But I still want to make some results first, at least a thousand people come back."

Even if I know the current environment, I am staring at other people's anti-thiefs. It is very difficult to make any achievements, but he still does not want to give up.

After all, I didn’t have a chance to escape...

He always felt a little unwilling.

Although I was a bit worried that my students would not have any trouble, Lu Zhou expressed his understanding of his ideas and nodded.

"That's outside you have to be careful, across the Pacific Ocean, even if you are in trouble, I can hardly help you."

Wei Wen nodded and thanked: "Well, thank you for your concern, I will pay attention!"