Shenhao: Gold Medal Investor

The time passed quickly with small talk, and in a blink of an eye it was already six o'clock in the afternoon.

Wangcai announced by voice that a guest was coming, and the visitor was Lin Yuan. Gao Si walked through the courtyard and opened the door in person.

When she opened the door, she found Lin Yuanzheng standing outside with two professors, Zhuang Tao and Fan Jing, talking and laughing.

"Sister Yuan, eh? Professor Zhuang, Professor Fan, what a coincidence, you are here together?" Gao Si greeted quickly.

Zhuang Tao smiled and said: "We came together. Tianxiang notified Dr. Xiaolin to pick us up. Actually, you young people don't have to worry. It's very convenient for us to take a taxi."

Lin Yuan stepped aside as soon as she entered the door, letting Zhuang Tao and Fan Jing go first.

"Oh, this little courtyard is really nice. It's not a big place and has winding paths. It's a good place where you can study in peace. When I stop teaching, I will come to live with you. Would you like it or not?"

Gao Si quickly apologized and said with a smile: "If you don't mind it, you can come at any time. I will set aside a study room for you next week."

Zhuang Tao was very satisfied with Gao Si's attitude. He smiled and patted Gao Si's hand and said, "We'll talk about it after retirement. We'll talk about it after retirement. Didn't you introduce two graduate students to me? Are they here today?"

"Come on, come on, you sit down first and I'll call them to come up. They should have gone downstairs to exercise."

Shao Tianxiang saw the two professors coming, and quickly stood up to greet them: "Uncle Zhuang, Aunt Fan, you are here. Sit down quickly, I will change the pot of tea."

Zhuang Tao waved his hand and said, "I've been sitting there all day long. Do you have a downstairs here? Show me around."

After hearing this, Gao Si took a few people downstairs to visit.

downstairs.

Zhuang Zuqin and Li Li were playing a fighting game on the large screen. On the screen, two kung fu beauties were wearing cool clothes and fighting each other crazily in the octagonal cage.

Xu Rongcai and Wu Jun were working out in the fitness area, sweating like rain.

Only Zhao Mengge and Zou Xian were sitting on the sofa in front of the big screen, drinking coffee and chatting quietly.

Zhao Mengge noticed that someone was coming down. Judging by their age, he knew it was Professors Zhuang Tao and Fan Jing, so he pulled Zou Xian up to greet them.

Gao Si took the initiative to introduce: "This is my investment partner Zhao Mengge. This is researcher Zou Xian from the Institute of Chemistry of the Academy of Sciences."

Then he said to Zhao Mengge: "This is the mathematician Professor Zhuang Tao, and this is the materials scientist Professor Fan Jing."

Zou Xian's eyes lit up and she rushed forward like a little girl meeting her idol.

"Professor Fan, I am a loyal fan of yours. I became interested in chemistry after reading your popular science book "Elements: The Formula of the Universe". You are my first teacher."

Fan Jing's face lit up with joy. She smiled and said, "I know your research and your ideas are very good. I am very happy to have a reader like you for my book."

Wu Jun and Xu Rongcai quickly wiped the sweat from their heads and came over to greet Zhuang Tao.

Zhuang Zuqin and Li Li hurriedly turned off the game and projected the compound fitting chart brought by Wu Jun on the big screen.

"Dad, Mom, come and sit down. We have had several small meetings, and we are just waiting for you two."

Everyone took their seats.

Zhuang Tao stared at the chart on the big screen for a while, then said: "Oh, there are no limits to young people. It seems that I have to accept you two graduate students."

Just when Xu Rongcai was about to say something, he was kicked by Gao Si and said: "Third brother, fifth brother, why don't you serve tea to the teacher quickly?"

Zhuang Zuqin's sharp eyesight quickly poured two cups of tea.

Xu Rongcai and Wu Jun each had a glass, bowed ninety degrees, and handed it to Zhuang Tao.

Zhuang Tao's expression was calm, but he was very happy inside. Of course he could guess that producing such an answer sheet must be attributed to Gao Si. However, as two undergraduates, it is obvious that they can complete the national reward task to such a level.

He is also talented.

"Your solution is actually unqualified from a purely mathematical point of view. After you knew the application field of this problem, you adopted a new solution. But I have to admit that the method you used is clever enough."

After speaking, Zhuang Tao turned to his wife Fan Jing: "Professor Fan, this is your reward project, please say a few words."

Fan Jing said: "I support the children's approach. A black cat or a white cat is a good cat if it catches mice. However, the prediction accuracy of this prediction model is obviously not enough. It still needs to be optimized."

Wu Jun said: "Professor Fan, the prediction algorithm needs training. We lack data for training, so the prediction performance is not very good. It will get better and better in the future."

Fan Jing said: "Data is not a problem. Now that the physical and chemical properties of the compounds are known, I have the data, and you can all use it. However, this is obviously beyond the scope of the bounty issue. It is not appropriate for you two to continue.

"

Thinking of this, Fan Jing seemed a little hesitant.

"mom!"

Fan Jing rolled her eyes at Zhuang Zuqin. In this environment, it was very shameful for her daughter to call her mom.

Zhuang Zuqin quickly changed his words: "Professor Fan, Wu Jun and Xu Rongcai's research during this period was all supported free of charge by our supercomputing center. If the calculation costs are calculated in one account, it will cost a lot of money."

Fan Jing glared at Zhuang Zuqin and said, "Have you ever settled a petty score with your mother like this?"

Zhuang Zuqin smiled and said, "Didn't you just let me call you mom?"

Zhuang Tao said: "This project is indeed a bit special. If it continues, the Department of Mathematics will become the Department of Materials. I suggest that your Institute of Materials set up a separate project to do this. We can solve the mathematical problems in it.

Linkage.”

After chatting for a while, Gao Si still felt that the two professors did not fully understand the significance of this project, so he stood up and said.

"Professor Zhuang, Professor Fan, I think the significance of this project may be much more profound than what everyone understands now. I suggest that the Institute of Mathematics and the Institute of Materials Science and Technology can jointly apply for a national key scientific research project. If this project is done well, our country's

Technology is about to take off.”

Zhuang Zuqin thought to himself that Gao Si was afraid that he was showing off again, so he said: "Gao Si, don't you need to be so exaggerated?"

But Zhuang Tao's eyes lit up and he looked very interested: "Oh? Tell me. If this project is really worth a national key scientific research project, then Professor Fan and I will really have lived our lives in vain."

After hearing this, Gao Si nodded and said: "The famous science fiction novelist Arthur Clark once said that any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. I think this sentence is most useful when applied to materials science.

appropriate."

"When Edison invented the light bulb, he used more than 1,600 materials for experiments. Why did he try them one by one? Because before doing the experiment, we had no way of knowing the resistance and melting point of the material that could be used to make light bulbs, so we just

Can try one by one."

"In modern times, more than 130 years have passed. When we conduct material research, trial and error is still the main research method. Is there anything worse than this?"

"Now, we can predict the characteristics of materials. With enough computing power, we can know the properties of a material before we create it. We can have photosynthetic glass that is harder than diamond

With higher plastics, we can know the purpose of any protein in the body and cure all genetic diseases..."

"Isn't this exciting enough? In the future, many problems that cannot be solved now can be solved directly with new materials. For ordinary people, this is like entering the age of magic."

At this time, Zhuang Tao and Fan Jing looked at each other and turned to stone on the spot.

Gao Si is right, materials are the bottleneck of almost all technological development. If the material problem is solved in advance, the impact will be extremely far-reaching.

This matter is greater than the 13-year human genome project that cost 3 billion US dollars. What does it mean to apply for a national key scientific research project?