On the 27th day of the summer camp of the University of Science and Technology of China, Zhou Ming thought that there would not be too many things in August, but on the 29th, he received a phone call.

On August 12th, the 6th Su Buqing Applied Mathematics Award will be awarded at the opening ceremony of the 14th Annual Meeting of China Industrial and Applied Mathematics held in Tanxiang City, southern Hunan Province.

The phone call asked Zhou Ming if he had time to attend the opening ceremony and receive the Su Buqing Applied Mathematics Award.

The Su Buqing Applied Mathematics Award was established by the China Society of Industry and Applied Mathematics. The purpose of this award is to reward industrial and applied mathematics workers who have made outstanding contributions to the application of mathematics in economic, science and technology and social development, and to encourage and promote the development of industrial and applied mathematics in China.

People from the China Society of Industry and Applied Mathematics naturally know Zhou Ming's name, and they all heard that Zhou Ming refused to go to the Crafford Awards ceremony in Sweden this year on the grounds that he was too busy. The Royal Swedish Academy also specially held an online award ceremony for Zhou Ming.

People from the China Society of Industry and Applied Mathematics have also heard of the research results in biology, especially synthetic biology, and the super beans studied by Zhou Ming at the beginning of the year.

Therefore, when they contacted Zhou Ming, they specifically told Zhou Ming that if they didn’t have time to come to the award ceremony in Xiangnan because they were too busy to receive the award, they could also mail the award certificate to him directly, and the prize money would also be directly transferred to his card.

This service can be said to be very considerate.

People have said this and have thought about him so much. Although Zhou Ming didn't want to run around outside on this hot day, he was embarrassed to say he couldn't go, so he agreed to go to the award ceremony.

This Su Buqing Applied Mathematics Award, established by the China Society of Industry and Applied Mathematics in October 2003, is different from the Su Buqing Award established by the International Federation of Industry and Applied Mathematics in July 2003.

The Su Buqing Award is intended to reward individuals who have made outstanding contributions to economic take-off and human development in the field of mathematics, and is awarded every four years.

It is a special international awards committee that is responsible for the selection. Each time, the prize is 1,000 US dollars, which is equivalent to RMB and does not even cost 10,000 yuan.

If you don’t include round-trip transportation, accommodation and food expenses, you may not get enough money for round-trip expenses when you attend an award ceremony.

The prize for the Su Buqing Applied Mathematics Award is exclusively funded by the Higher Education Press, and since 2010, the prize for each winner will be 100,000 yuan.

If the Su Buqing Applied Mathematics Award was the same as the Su Buqing Award, it would not cost 10,000 yuan. In this hot day, even if the China Industrial and Applied Mathematics Society said it well, Zhou Ming would probably not go there.

On that day, Zhou Ming also received a call from Zhang Mingjie, which was approved by the Institute of Life Sciences. Its full name is "Luzhou Institute of Life Sciences" and the site has been selected. It is estimated that construction will start soon.

This is faster than expected. If you follow this speed, you don’t have to wait until the year after tomorrow. At this time next year, this life sciences institute should be able to be built.

Seeing that the approval was coming down so quickly, Zhou Ming said to Zhang Mingjie: "Academician Zhang, some things can't be explained clearly on the phone. Are you in school now? Why don't I go to find you?"

"I have time now, come on. If I don't have time, I won't call you." Zhang Mingjie also knew that Zhou Ming had some of his own ideas about this life science research, and he also wanted to hear what Zhou Ming had specifically thoughts.

However, since he mentioned last time that he had not applied for it, it was still a matter of whether he could build it, so Zhou Ming did not say much about this matter.

Since the above has approved it, some things must be explained clearly.

Not long after, Zhou Ming came to Zhang Mingjie's office, and there was not only Zhang Mingjie in Zhang Mingjie's office, but also a middle-aged man Zhou Ming didn't know was here.

"Hello Professor Zhou, I am Secretary Zhao's secretary, and my surname is Sun." After seeing Zhou Ming, the middle-aged man said to Zhou Ming and reached out to shake hands with Zhou Ming.

It turned out that the middle-aged man was the secretary of Secretary Zhao, Luzhou City.

"Hello."

When Zhou Ming attended the meeting on the construction of a science and technology city in Luzhou City last time, although he saw Secretary Zhao from Luzhou City, he had never seen the secretary next to Secretary Zhao, so he simply said ok and did not pay too much attention to him.

"This Secretary Sun was arranged by the city to communicate with us about the Institute of Life Sciences. What does Professor Zhou think of this research on life sciences?"

Zhang Mingjie first asked Zhou Ming to sit down and poured him a glass of water. When he handed the water to Zhou Ming, he first explained the situation of Secretary Sun to him, and then asked Zhou Ming.

Not long after the summer camp at the Institute of Digital University yesterday, Li Mingzhi called Zhang Mingjie and said that Zhou Ming had already determined the graduate students of the summer camp at the Institute of Digital University and was ready to determine the topic for the graduate students.

What else did he say? Zhou Ming said he wanted to train several math masters for the Mathematics Academy.

In the first half of the year, Zhou Ming produced a lot of research results at the School of Life Sciences, but since the School of Mathematics solved the Goldbach conjecture at the beginning of the year, there has been no movement.

Because of Zhou Ming, the two deans of different colleges, Li Mingzhi and Zhang Mingjie, who had not communicated much, also had more opportunities to communicate.

I heard Zhang Mingjie talk about Zhou Ming’s affairs at the School of Life Sciences for half a year, which made Li Mingzhi feel in his heart that their School of Mathematics and Sciences seemed to be suppressed by the School of Life Sciences.

Now that their Mathematical Academy has a chance to raise its head, Li Mingzhi naturally wants to have a good talk with Zhang Mingjie.

Now there is a vague feeling of competition between the Academy of Mathematics and the Academy of Biotechnology, but this competition is manifested between the two presidents Zhang Mingjie and Li Mingzhi, both academicians.

Zhang Mingjie only heard Li Mingzhi show off yesterday, but now he heard Zhou Ming say that he has some ideas about the Institute of Life Sciences that has been approved by him. Zhang Mingjie naturally also wants to know what he has.

"First of all, if we want to build the Chinese University of Science and Technology, at least the School of Life Sciences of our University of Science and Technology, into a world-leading college discipline, this life science research institute cannot be carried out in the same way as other research institutes in China."

Zhou Ming said to Zhang Mingjie.

"What is Professor Zhou going to do?" Zhang Mingjie asked Zhou Mingming.

Zhang Mingjie naturally knew what Zhou Ming said about other research institutes in China.

There are many research institutes in China, and different research institutes can be said to be very different. There are huge gaps between the Beijing-Shanghai Institute of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the non-Beijing-Shanghai Institute, and even the capital's institutes, not to mention the differences between the institutes of some enterprises and the institutes of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.

Many research institutes are related to schools, and the gap between different schools is also very large.

Just talking about the scientific research of Tsinghua University and second-tier universities in the west, this is completely incomparable.

Moreover, there are many research institutes in schools, which actually build a building next to the school and then hire some researchers to do research. Some may have a teaching position in the nearby universities.

If the University of Science and Technology is the same, then this institute will not be of much help to the University of Science and Technology and the School of Life Sciences.

If you want to achieve each other, this method is definitely not feasible.

Just like a postdoctoral fellow, its full name is the postdoctoral research mobile station. This is not a higher degree than a doctorate, but a job, equivalent to a position.

Moreover, this job is temporary and can only be done for two years.

If you have not obtained a fixed scientific research position after graduating from a doctorate, but you still want to learn something further, you can apply to be a postdoctoral fellow.

Just like the life sciences institute that the School of Life Sciences of the University of Science and Technology applied to build from above, if it is built according to the research institutes of other domestic schools, it will finally allow some doctoral graduates from the University of Science and Technology to do research and become a postdoctoral site.

In other words, this institute will recruit graduate students separately and become a separate graduate school, which is definitely not possible in Zhou Ming's opinion.

Zhou Ming did not object to this, but said that this cannot be the only situation.

"My idea is that this institute should not be just another graduate school in our school, nor should it be just a postdoctoral site. It should also be to recruit more undergraduate students.

Let undergraduates have more opportunities to use mobile phones, and cultivate their hands-on scientific research ability from the beginning of their freshman year.

If we follow this expectation, our School of Life Sciences can send a relevant notice to freshmen when school starts in September.

Of course, these are just my personal thoughts, and I also refer to the operating modes of some foreign research institutes.

The national conditions in the country are different, and the specific developments in the future must be based on actual conditions.”

Zhou Ming explained to Zhang Mingjie.

After hearing what Zhou Ming said, Zhang Mingjie also began to think.

After a while, Zhang Mingjie said to Zhou Ming: "Well... I probably understand what you mean.

This institute can still be used as a postdoctoral site, and can also recruit some outstanding doctoral and master's students as usual, as well as some outstanding undergraduate students.

In this way, postdoctoral students who already have sufficient scientific research experience can help those doctoral students with slightly poor scientific research capabilities and master students who have not been doing scientific research for a long time.

In addition, the master's and doctoral students, as seniors, have a lot of scientific research experience than the freshmen who have just entered the campus in the first year of the year. They can also teach them some basic scientific research knowledge and take them to do experiments.

Using the old model of leading new ones can not only quickly cultivate a group of people who can do experiments, but also cultivate the ability of doctors to lead people to do scientific research?"

"That's right. At the beginning, you could be a tutor with a few doctoral students and some master's students. Those freshmen can be used as interns and do some basic work. If you don't have enough skill and staff, you can recruit some postdoctoral students as assistants.

If there are excellent postdoctoral fellows, you can also try to let them do their own projects and lead students.”

Zhou Ming nodded and explained to Zhang Mingjie.

"But, this method sounds like nothing wrong, but it's not that simple to do.

Funds, people, experimental equipment, experimental safety and other things are likely to encounter problems."

As an old researcher, Zhang Mingjie was a little worried about the plan mentioned by Zhou Ming. After all, he has participated in many scientific research projects and has done many experiments.

Therefore, he knew that no matter how good the plan was, the manpower was sometimes poor and it was impossible to cover everything.

Sometimes many problems are only encountered when actually doing experiments. Zhang Mingjie said these to Zhou Ming, which is also based on his belief that he knows more about many situations during the experiment than Zhou Ming.

"No matter what happens, we have difficulties. First, we have a general plan, and then if we encounter any difficulties in the actual implementation process, we will find a way to solve them.

If we never take this step, then the difficulties will never be solved.”

Zhou Mingdao.

After Zhou Ming finished speaking, Zhang Mingjie first looked at Zhou Ming, and then looked at Secretary Sun who had not spoken aside. From his facial expression, it can be seen that Zhang Mingjie was a little hesitant at this time.

Finally, Zhang Mingjie looked at Zhou Ming again as if he had made up some decision and said to him: "Okay, anyway, you are the director of this research institute, so everything should be done according to your ideas. Do whatever you want.

However, I still have to tell you that as soon as you heard that you will serve as the director of this research institute, you will prepare to set it as one of the research units of national key projects, so you must not be careless.

Your current reputation and your preferences are all due to your research and development and failures over the past year.

Once you take a wrong step, the above will probably not trust you as unconditionally as you do now.

At that time, although they will not say anything you have to say, they will definitely reject the possibility of failure."

Zhou Ming knew that what Zhang Mingjie said was all from the perspective of a person who had experienced it, and they were all true words, so Zhou Ming could also accept it happily.

"Academician Zhang, don't worry, I will take it step by step with my feet on the ground.

As for the funding and experimental equipment issues, I am not worried about this. If the project or research institute has no money, I can pay it.

As for human issues, this requires the help of the University of Science and Technology.

As for experimental safety issues, no matter which laboratory is a problem, all we can do is to manage this aspect more strictly.

Since interns are mainly drawn from undergraduates at the University of Science and Technology, the school also needs to emphasize the issue of experimental safety since the beginning of the freshman year.

Of course, the institute will definitely pay special attention to this."

Zhou Ming also said to Zhang Mingjie solemnly.

After hearing Zhou Ming’s guarantees, Zhang Mingjie nodded and continued to say to Zhou Ming: “After the school starts in September, the institute will issue two notices, one is the internship document of the Institute of Life Sciences next year, and the other is about experimental safety.

In addition, our college will also tell the school again to see if the whole school can strengthen the experimental safety issue again.

However, at the beginning of school, the formulation of this internship document requires your participation. After all, you are the director. Interns need to work hours every week and the interns’ hourly salary.

This is what I am talking about. Once the institute is built, not only will interns need money, but experimental equipment also need money. More importantly, talents also need money. The more outstanding talents, the more money they need."

At the end, Zhang Mingjie smiled, because since Zhou Ming said that the money was handed over to him, then he would leave it to him.
Chapter completed!