“The Institute for Advanced Study and Princeton University want to collaborate with us?”
In Dingguang Research Institute, when Lin Xiao learned about this matter, he couldn't help but be surprised.
It’s not that these two organizations are so famous that I was surprised to come to them, but I was simply surprised that these two organizations suddenly came to them to reach cooperation.
I'm afraid something happened in between?
"Yes, Director, they just sent a letter of intent to ask us what we think."
Li Xingqiang, deputy director of administration of the institute, said with a smile.
As the deputy director of administration, Li Xingqiang is naturally responsible for various administrative affairs of the institute. If other institutions want to cooperate and exchange, he is mainly responsible.
Of course, the final decisions on these major matters still have to be made by Lin Xiao.
Li Xingqiang said with a smile: "I guess the reason why they suddenly contacted us for this cooperation is mainly because of the paper written by you, Professor Lin, and Professor Witten. Witten has stayed in our institute for so many months. Time, and then the existence of strings was proved. They probably want to communicate with us more in the future."
"Uh..." Lin Xiao was stunned when he heard Li Xingqiang's guess, and then nodded: "It's not impossible."
But when I thought about it, when Witten asked for his signature that day, he directly persuaded him for nearly two or three hours, and I don’t know how much international roaming fees he spent.
In the end, Witten said that he would not publish the paper if he did not agree. In desperation, he had no choice but to agree.
This paper signature is obviously not casual, or signing without the consent of others is not allowed. After all, this is the right of signature. Even if the content of this paper is very powerful, it is completely useless to the person being signed. There is a hundred benefits and no harm.
This is not to mention top people like Lin Xiao, Witten and others. It is no joke that a name is worth thousands of dollars. They naturally value the right of signature even more.
That's why Witten had to get Lin Xiao's authorization to add his name.
Otherwise, if a random person writes a paper that is extremely well-written, and then signs a Nobel Prize winner as the corresponding author, and then sends it to a journal, if this journal takes a look at it, I will give you the Nobel Prize winner, and this academic credit will be given to me. Do you still need to read it? Even if it is just a fake, you have to sell it to save face, and then such a paper may be published, which will naturally damage the reputation of this Nobel laureate.
What's more serious is that if this paper is plagiarized and the Nobel laureate is the corresponding author, it will be even more unlucky. After all, once it is discovered, even if it is finally proven through a lawsuit that it has nothing to do with it, the damage to your reputation will be It is inevitable that, just like a scarf essay, as long as it is published and attracts attention, even if it is rehabilitated later, the loss of reputation will be irreversible.
"Well... I basically agree. Of course, this matter also needs to be approved by the higher-ups first, so I'd better trouble you to make a trip."
Lin Xiao said.
It is naturally a good thing to be able to carry out such large-scale exchanges between institutions, but after all, their Dingguang Institute has many important technologies, and although Princeton Institute for Advanced Study and Princeton University are famous, they are still foreign after all. , there is no guarantee that the other party will not do some dirty tricks in the name of communication, so you still have to be careful about what you should be careful about, and you cannot just agree when you are happy.
"Okay, I'll ask right away."
Li Xingqiang nodded and left here.
Lin Xiao lowered his head and read a paper.
The title of the paper is called "L curvature bound on ricci curvature bounded manifold and its generalization based on Hodge-Lin theorem"
Yes, this thesis is the graduation thesis of Chen Mingkai, Lin Xiao's current disciple who is about to graduate.
About three months ago, Chen Mingkai started a new content at Lin Xiao's suggestion, and finally, he completed the final content some time ago, and what he has now sent to Lin Xiao is the final version.
"The writing is good, and it has some innovative points of its own."
After reading this paper quickly, Lin Xiao was basically sure that there were no problems with this paper. For a doctoral thesis, it was obviously up to standard.
Of course, just reaching the level of a doctoral thesis is obviously not enough. The most important thing is to meet his expectations. After all, as he told several of his students, his requirements are very high.
As for this paper, his expectation was that it would reach the acceptance threshold of the four top journals in mathematics.
"Isn't it a bit too high?" Lin Xiao raised an eyebrow, then shook his head with a smile, "At least not to the extent of accepting a one-hour invitation to the International Congress of Mathematicians."
Then he put down the paper and nodded with satisfaction. No matter what, at least his advice was not in vain. Of course, it was mostly Chen Mingkai's own efforts.
Then, he found Chen Mingkai's authoritative signal and sent a message to this doctoral student who had probably been waiting for a long time: "I have read your thesis and can proceed with the defense."
At the same time, in a certain graduate student dormitory at Beijing University.
"Holy crap, my mentor sent me a message!"
When Chen Mingkai heard the prestige notification sound on his phone, his heart skipped a beat and he exclaimed.
And his roommates all turned their gazes over.
This is a triple room, so there are two roommates of Chen Mingkai in the dormitory.
"What did God Lin say? Have you passed?"
"Give me Kangkang, what did God Lin say?"
The two roommates immediately gathered around and cast very curious glances at Lin Xiao.
They all know that Chen Mingkai's mentor is Lin Shen, and now they are naturally curious about what Lin Shen thinks of their roommate's thesis.
"Don't worry, I haven't even looked at it yet!"
Chen Mingkai waved his hand and his heart was pounding. He had actually completed this paper for a while. When he finished writing the paper, he felt that he was the best. He had completed such a powerful paper. Master Lin
You have to praise him a few times, right?
As a result, Lin Xiao found a lot of mistakes for him with a backhand, so he hurriedly worked slowly and finally completed the final draft at this time.
"Look, look, look."
The two roommates urged, and finally Chen Mingkai calmed down his mood, then began to unlock the phone's lock screen, enter the interface, and finally entered Weixin carefully.
Finally, Lin Xiao's reply appeared in front of him. When he saw "You can participate in the defense", he immediately jumped up from his seat.
A doctoral student's graduation thesis, after that, he will be a real doctor!
This feeling is better than getting a double yolk egg in a card drawing game.
His two roommates also said with half envy and half congratulations: "I'm afraid you will be in for a treat this time."
"Awesome, my Kai, "Annals of Mathematics"! Damn it, how can it be more uncomfortable for you to see you pass than for me to be postponed?"
"Please, please, please!" Chen Mingkai said with a smile and made an OK gesture at the same time.
At this time, his cell phone rang again, and it was from Lin Xiao.
"The level of this paper is high enough, and it can definitely be ranked among the best among all doctoral dissertations. After the defense, you can send it to any journal you want. Your overall performance in the paper writing process will also be
Yes, there is basically no problem in this regard, so you can prepare for the defense in a week.
In addition, after the defense, you can come to me to talk about your post-graduation matters. As I said before, as long as you can complete this thesis, you can join the Dingguang Institute as long as you are willing. Then,
Not to mention anything else, the future Dr. Chen Mingkai』
Seeing these comments from the instructor, Chen Mingkai's face suddenly became even more happy.
"I am Cao, please read what my mentor says!"
When the two roommates saw it, they immediately became even more envious. This kind of compliment feels so good, right?
For students like them, there is nothing better than being praised by their mentor, especially when the mentor is Lin Shen.
Lin Xiao later promised Chen Mingkai that he could join the Dingguang Research Institute, which made them even more upset.
The reputation of Dingguang Research Institute among doctoral students like them should be great. Who doesn’t know that joining Dingguang Research Institute will save them 40 years of detours in the future?
Isn't this more exciting than working as a security guard?
"Damn, this kid is so arrogant, beat him up!"
When one roommate saw Chen Mingkai's overjoyed look, he immediately said to the other roommate. Then the two of them nodded, went up and started beating Chen Mingkai.
Of course, they were just joking, until finally, they stopped, and Chen Mingkai opened his paper and began to appreciate his masterpiece.
What he likes most is doing this kind of thing and recalling his achievements.
Looking at the smooth proof process in the paper, this is mathematics!
Of course, while watching, he once again felt admiration for his mentor.
Recalling that at the beginning, at Lin Xiao's suggestion, he generalized his paper to Huo Qilin...Hodge-Lin's theorem. If it was just a simple generalization, it would not be worth mentioning, but in
Under the guidance of Lin Xiao, this generalization brought extremely significant results to the connection between the Hodge-Lin theorem and another Poincaré-Perelman theorem.
It is such a result that the actual value of this paper has been improved by many levels. After all, the Hodge-Lin theorem is the original Hodge conjecture, and the Poincaré-Perelman theorem is the original Poincar.
Rai guessed.
Finding the important connection between two world-class conjectures and their theorems is of course of great value.
This kind of value was discovered by Lin Xiao before his thesis was completed.
"Fortunately, he is my mentor."
Chen Mingkai showed an extremely lucky expression.