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Chapter 613 National Science and Technology Awards Ceremony!

Qin Ke nodded and said, "We received the invitation letter more than a month ago. Is it next Monday? Are you going too?"

Qin Ke and Qingyun don't feel too excited about winning prizes. Not to mention international awards such as the Crawford Award, the Mathematical Breakthrough Award, and the Fields Medal. In the past six months alone, domestic awards have been softened. .

"Green Orange Award" from ALI Dharma Academy, "Qiushi Outstanding Young Scholar Award" from Qiushi Science and Technology Foundation, "Youth Science and Technology Award" from Xiaguo Science and Technology Association, "Young Scientist Award" from Xiaguo Youth Federation, Xiaguo Times "The Most Influential Person of the Year in the Xia Kingdom", "Excellent Youth Model in the Xia Kingdom" from Xia Xuanbu... In half a year, he has won a total of [-] domestic awards, large and small, which can be described as infinitely beautiful.

If it weren't for the fact that most of these awards were sent to Qingmu University by the awarding organization, Qin Ke and Ning Qingyun might not have time to receive so many awards.

But these domestic awards are far less important than the National Science and Technology Awards.

The National Science and Technology Award is a national award, issued by Xia Guo, which means that academic research achievements have been recognized by the country, so it is the most important academic honor in the domestic scientific research community.

The National Science and Technology Awards include the National Highest Science and Technology Award, the National Natural Science Award, the National Technological Invention Award, the National Science and Technology Progress Award and the International Science and Technology Cooperation Award.

Lifetime achievement awards such as the National Highest Science and Technology Award are basically only awarded to old Dezhao, old scientists and old academicians who have made great contributions to the country's scientific research. Only two candidates can win the award a year.

For example, the 71-year-old academician Jiang Weixian, Qin Ke's teacher, was nominated for the National Highest Science and Technology Award, and this is considered a relatively "young" nomination candidate. Most of the candidates are over 80 years old and over 90 years old. Year-old candidates are not without.

Next is the National Natural Science Award, which only rewards scholars who have achieved significant scientific research achievements in basic research such as mathematics, physics, chemistry, astronomy, earth science, life science, and applied basic research in the fields of information, materials, and engineering technology. First and second prizes.

Due to the particularity of the highest science and technology award, the natural science award has become the academic honor most desired by young and middle-aged people, even most scholars and researchers under the age of 70, and the competition is extremely fierce.

Especially for the first prize, the number of places is very tight every year. Generally, only one is awarded, and the two places are very rare exceptions. Moreover, the selection is strict, and it is better to be short than to be indiscriminate. There are five or six rounds that are directly vacant because there are no qualified project candidates.

Therefore, being able to win the first prize of the Natural Science Award is the top honor in domestic academia.

After the Natural Science Award came the Technological Invention Award, which mainly rewards scientific and technical personnel who have made major technological inventions and innovations in products, processes, materials and their systems by using scientific and technological knowledge.

Qin Ke and Ning Qingyun developed the Lime operating system in their third year of high school, and made great contributions to the country's first national operating system with completely independent intellectual property rights. They were originally able to win the National Technology Invention Award, but because Restricted by various factors such as age and environment, it was finally changed to the "Special Prize of the National Youth Science and Technology Innovation Award".

As for the Science and Technology Progress Award, it is awarded to scientific and technical personnel who have made outstanding contributions in the application and promotion of advanced scientific and technological achievements, and the completion of major scientific and technological work plans and projects. It is a wide-ranging science and technology award, which is relatively lower than the Invention Award. After all, the introduction of technology from abroad to digest, absorb and promote can also win this award. The requirements for originality are not so high, and the status in domestic academic circles is naturally inferior to the Natural Science Award and the Technology Invention Award.

The International Science and Technology Cooperation Award is for international friends and international organizations, so I won’t mention it in detail.

From the number of awards in previous years, we can see the weight difference between several awards.

一般最高科技奖0-2个；国家自然科学奖的一等奖0至2个，二等奖40至50个；技术发明奖的一等奖2至3个，二等奖50至60个；技术进步奖的特等奖1至2个，一等奖10至20个，二等奖100至150个……

According to rumors on the Internet, Qin Ke and Ning Qingyun's Qingba projects "Proof of the Hail Conjecture" and "Proof of the Goldbach Conjecture" were also nominated for the first prize of this year's National Natural Science Award.

Especially after Qin and Ke won the Fields Medal, many netizens felt that it was a certainty for them to win the first prize of the Natural Science Award.

I have already won the Fields Medal, so the country is ashamed not to give the first prize of the Natural Science Award?

However, the rumors were just rumors. This time Qin Ke and Ning Qingyun received invitations to participate in the awards ceremony. It did not state whether they had won any awards or what awards they would receive.

"I also have an invitation letter, but I'm just a guest at the ceremony. And you are going to receive the award." Academician Guo Weiyang sighed with a smile:
"Young people are awesome. I was 35 years old when I won the National Science and Technology Progress Award. But I can't compare with you. After all, you won the Fields Medal at the age of 20."

He looked at the two of them: "Lao Jiang, Academician Tian Jianlan, and your teacher Wang Heng have all jointly recommended you as candidates for the first prize of the National Natural Science Award. But you are guaranteed to win the second prize."

Of course, Guo Weiyang also heard rumors on the Internet, but the first prize of the Natural Science Award has always been awarded only to the field of applied research. The achievements of Qin Ke and Ning Qingyun are almost all concentrated in the basic theory of mathematics, which adds a lot of variables , no one knows if the higher-ups will make an exception for Qin and Ke.

Moreover, he is well-informed and knows that many older generations, either out of fear or jealousy, are not in favor of giving Qin and Ke the first prize of the Natural Science Award early. As an excuse, it is said that Qin Ke and Ning Qingyun have won the Fields Medal at a young age, and have been repeatedly exposed and praised by the national media. Under such circumstances, they are awarded the second highest science award The first prize of the Natural Science Award, will that add fuel to the flames and lead to the story of "Shang Zhongyong"?

But there are also seniors who support Qin and Ke, who think that such talented scholars should be treated specially, and they should not be chilled.

All in all, there is already a lot of quarrel about whether Qin Ke and Ning Qingyun will win the first prize or the second prize.Academician Jiang Weixian has been on a business trip for nearly a month. It is not just a simple business trip. He is also taking advantage of his spare time to try to contact friends in various fields, fight for resources for his two disciples, and increase the probability of winning the first prize of the Natural Science Award.

Similarly, regardless of old age and frailty, the old academician Wang Heng quietly came to the capital to pay a visit to many important figures, also to build momentum for his two disciples.

Of course, these things were not made public, and Guo Weiyang would not go into details with Qin Ke and the others, adding to the troubles of the two students.

Guo Weiyang encouraged: "In short, regardless of whether you can get the first prize this year, when you can really solve the NS equation, it will greatly promote the country's fluid mechanics, and the first prize will definitely fall to on your heads."

Qin Ke smiled: "We will definitely work hard."

Although he didn't know that Mr. Jiang Weixian and Mr. Wang Heng were running around about their affairs, he knew it well.

Others don't know about "Mr. Q"'s participation in domestic EDA research and development, but Uncle Yang, who is in charge of the technology line, knows it clearly. Talk about this natural science award and say, "Don't worry, it's yours and no one can take it away."

Guo Weiyang was very satisfied with the reaction of the two: "Okay, the task of the 'Turbulence Group' has been completed ahead of schedule, and you will have free research time until the Spring Festival. You can focus on NS equations, or you can participate in the 'Air Turbulence and Climate Prediction' by yourself." The experiments of the rest of the research group have increased knowledge."

He said that he remembered something, and said again: "Old Jiang asked me to tell you that you don't have to take any final written exams this semester, and you can get full marks for this semester's exams by submitting a paper that can be published in a core domestic physics journal." .You guys work hard."

Are papers published in domestic core journals regarded as exams?

Qin Ke couldn't help complaining in his heart that ordinary doctoral students can graduate after publishing a paper in a core domestic journal, but he and Ning Qingyun can only be regarded as the results of a final exam... Academician Jiang's requirements for them are really high scary.

But this rare opportunity, Qin Ke thought of his special task "It's time to make your international voice in the physics community", so he took the opportunity to ask: "Academician Guo, can we use the data in the laboratory to write papers? "

"Yes, but please note that many tasks and projects of our research group are marked as confidential, and these data cannot be used to write papers published to the outside world. I suggest that you use the instruments in the laboratory to redesign and carry out research in line with your papers. so that the experimental data does not have to worry about sensitive data. Just as the turbulence team is free, I can ask them to assist you in the experiment. As for the cost, you don't have to worry about it. You two made the 'turbulence team' finish the task half a year ahead of schedule , save a lot of money, you can do experiments within 1000 million at will.”

1000……

Qin Ke and Ning Qingyun looked at each other, and once again lamented that it was cool to follow the right boss.You must know that Professor He Liangfu was almost driven crazy because of insufficient funds for the project, so he had to turn to them for help, in order to reduce the number of experiments and save experiment costs through their computational materials science and mathematical modeling...

After leaving Academician Guo Weiyang's office, Ning Qingjun asked, "Qin Xiaoke, should we write about NS equations in our paper? This will save you worry and effort."

"Well, just write physical theory papers related to the NS equation. But our goal can't be set in domestic core journals. If we want to write, we can write better papers that can be published in "Physical Review Letters", "Applied Physics Letters", "Physical Journals" " or "Nature Physics", these four top international journals." Qin Ke intends to take this opportunity to complete a quarter of the special tasks first.

Ning Qingyun was taken aback by Qin Ke's goal: "Challenge the top international journal of physics directly? Is it too difficult?"

Qin Ke said confidently: "We have published papers in domestic core physics journals before, and it is not too challenging. Since Mr. Jiang has high hopes for us, let's surprise him."

Ning Qingyun was really encouraged by him, she clenched her fist and said, "Okay, let's work hard together!"

After returning to their seats, the two discussed for a while, opened arXiv and searched for related papers, and finally decided on the topic of the paper - "Research on the Characteristics of Large-Scale Circulation Shape Changes Using the NS Equation".

Large-scale circulation is one of the important features of turbulent heat convection. Both of them have read the relevant experimental content in the historical materials of the "turbulent flow group". At present, no one in the entire physics community has used the NS equation to analyze the large-scale thermal convection of turbulent heat. circulation research.

And Qin Ke has also read related theories in the systematic S-level knowledge "Exploration and Detailed Explanation of the Nonlinear Partial Differential Equation "Navier-Stokes Equation"", the theoretical part is not very difficult to write, the difficulty lies in How to design the experimental plan and verify the conclusions derived by the two through the NS equation through actual experiments.

Ning Qingjun suggested: "We have read the historical data of the research group before. Under the large Prandtl number (Pr), the flow pattern of heat convection changes more obviously, and the experimental observation will be clearer. Should we start from this direction? "

Qin Ke readily agreed, so the outline of the thesis was quickly drawn up.

Deng Zhaoliang, a postdoctoral fellow, asked curiously: "What are you discussing?" He was sitting next to Qin Ke, so although he was not a member of the "Turbulence Group", he was very familiar with both of them.

Qin Ke smiled and talked about the content of the final exam assigned by Mr. Jiang, and Deng Zhaoliang said in shock:
"It's too miserable for you. Academician Jiang is really strict. When I followed him as a doctoral student, I published three papers in domestic core journals before I successfully obtained my doctorate certificate. You are the closed disciples of Academician Jiang. It may not be necessary to submit ten papers to graduate with a doctorate..."

After that, he comforted: "However, Academician Jiang is very responsible. He often corrects the shortcomings and mistakes of our papers. We can learn a lot from him, and most of the time he doesn't even hang up as the corresponding author. All papers are signed by myself alone, such a conscientious supervisor is too rare, so I applied to stay as a postdoctoral fellow after graduation. Please do your best.”

Qin Ke had a good impression of Deng Zhaoliang, who had a bright personality, so he suggested: "Senior Deng, when we do experiments, do you want to help? You can put a second paper in our thesis."

"Experiment? No problem. As for the title, I don't need it. I'm very satisfied if I can increase the experience of the experiment." Deng Zhaoliang has a few first papers in domestic core journals, and he doesn't care much about the second one.

The corner of Qin Ke's mouth curled up, but he didn't tell Deng Zhaoliang that this paper was published in a top international journal, even if it was the second one, its influence was even more influential than the first one in a domestic core journal.

Let's give Senior Deng another surprise then.

……

In the following week, both Qin Ke and Ning Qingyun devoted themselves to the preparation of this paper. With their mathematical proficiency, they wanted to study the special solution of the NS equation under the condition of large Pr number turbulent heat. It took a lot of time and energy, but the result was very satisfying. It took the two of them only four days to complete the special solution of the NS equation and the derivation of the characteristics of the large-scale circulation shape change. The next step is to design the experimental plan.

However, with the arrival of the National Science and Technology Award Ceremony, the two put aside this paper for the time being, and went to participate in this conference that the entire academic and scientific research community paid close attention to.

This time, the meeting was of a very high standard. Qin Ke and Ning Qingyun were directly sent to Xiaguo Great Hall by the driver arranged by Uncle Yang.

(End of this chapter)