I really just want to be a scholar

Chapter 717 The first physics prize to be won!

There are a lot of academic exchange meetings from the end of the year to before the Spring Festival. Among them, the year-end summary and academic exchange meetings held by several university associations such as the Mathematical Society, the Physical Society, the Chemical Society, and the Biological Society are the most famous and the most popular.

Qin Ke and the presidents of these societies are all acquaintances, and other academic exchange meetings can be declined, but those of the Mathematical Society, Physics Society, and Biological Society cannot.

Starting from December 12th, the Xia Physics Society will hold a three-day academic exchange conference. Check out the introduction in the invitation letter. There will be more than 29 experts and scholars from universities, research institutes, and cooperative enterprises all over the country. Invited special reports, branch invitation reports, oral reports and posting reports will be used for exchanges, and a number of heavyweight activities will be held, including the announcement of this year's "Physical Society Physics Award" and the award ceremony.

The Physics Award of the Physics Society is established to reward Xia Guo physicists who have made outstanding contributions to science and technology for the development of Xia Guo's physics career. There are five awards in total, which are selected only once every two years.

These five awards are the "Ye Qisun Physics Award" selected from the direction of condensed matter physics, the "Rao Yutai Physics Award" selected from the direction of optics, acoustics, atomic and molecular physics, the "Wu Youxun Physics Award" selected from the direction of nuclear physics, and The "Wang Ganchang Physics Award" in the direction of particle physics and inertial confinement nuclear fusion, and the "Hu Gangfu Physics Award" in the direction of experimental technology.

The status of these five awards in Xia Guo's physics circle is equivalent to the "Chen Shiingshen Mathematics Award" in Xia Guo's mathematics circle. As long as he can win one of these five awards, he can almost quickly become a well-known scholar in the corresponding direction in the physics world.Because there are only one or two winners for each award, the competition for each session is extremely fierce.

In addition, there is the "Physical Society Lifetime Contribution Award", which is similar to the "Hua Luogeng Mathematics Award" in mathematics. It is awarded to those who are over 50 years old, have high morals, have outstanding academic and research achievements, and have made outstanding contributions to the field of physics in Xiaguo. A generation of physicists.Qin Ke's teacher, Jiang Weixian, and Academician Guo Weiyang, whom he is very familiar with, have both won this award.

In the past, both Qin Ke and Ning Qingyun were newcomers in the physics field, and they had a lot of business, so they only occasionally participated in the year-end report meeting of the Mathematical Society, and this was the first time they participated in an academic exchange meeting of the Physics Society.

Today is Saturday, December 12th, the first day of the meeting.

Qin Ke and Ning Qingyun sat in Fang Yongtang's car and headed to the venue.

Today's weather is barely passable. Although the sky is a little dark and the north wind is strong, but at least it hasn't snowed anymore. The traffic has also increased a lot, and almost every traffic light has to wait two or three times to pass.

Qin Kechao smiled and said to Ning Qingyun who was next to him: "It seems that when we arrived at the venue, the meeting was about to start. Just in time, it saves trouble, and we don't have to be surrounded by a bunch of reporters for interviews, or pestered by a bunch of people to hand out business cards."

The reporter's interview was fine, mainly because the decadent atmosphere in those academic circles made Qin Ke uncomfortable.Although Qin Ke belongs to the social cow and has good social skills, in his heart, he actually doesn't like those unnutritious polite greetings such as hypocrisy, "respecting your name for a long time", and business invitations with different patterns.

Ning Qingyun was also thinking the same way, she is quiet and doesn't like to interact with strangers, and some people are really shameless, they can be her grandfather next year, and they handed over their business cards with a salivating face, please She takes care of her a lot, at least Ning Qingyun looks down on this soft bone that is "flexible and stretchable", but there are quite a few people like this. , a few words of courtesy.

This is another reason why Ning Qingyun never liked to attend domestic academic conferences.

Ning Qingyun put her little head on Qin Ke's shoulder and asked, "Qin Xiaoke, Chairman Jiao said that there is a surprise waiting for us this time. What kind of surprise do you think it will be?"

The two are married now, but Ning Qingyun has a tender skin, and she hasn't changed her name to Qin Ke's "husband" before. She only calls it occasionally when the two are alone in private, and she is more used to "Qin Xiaoke" at ordinary times. nickname.

Qin Ke put his arms around Ning Qingyun's slender waist, sniffed the girl's delicious body fragrance, and said with a smile: "Chairman Jiao has already invited us to give a report, so the remaining surprise is to present us with awards." .”

There were as many as 3500 participants in the year-end academic exchange conference of the Physical Society, and nearly 1500 academic reports were received, covering atomic and molecular physics, nano and mesoscopic physics, field theory and cosmology, plasma physics, high energy density There are 21 fields such as physics and statistical physics. For this purpose, 21 exchange conference rooms are specially set up to facilitate academic exchanges in various forms such as posters, exhibitions, and reports.

Of course, the most important thing is the stage report in the main venue, and the awards at the end.

President Jiao Yanmin has already invited the two of them to the stage to give special lectures, and said that there are still surprises, so don't guess, [-]% of them will win the grand prize.

Ning Qingjun pursed her lips and chuckled: "I guess so. Speaking of which, this will be the first physics award we have won."

Qin Ke kissed Ning Qingyun's beautiful hair, and said with a smile: "Congratulations to Professor Ning in advance, and another big prize, would you like to kiss me to comfort my wounded and lonely heart?"

Qin Ke's antics made Ning Qingyun chuckle, the girl lightly pinched Qin Ke's waist, and her beautiful eyes gave the scoundrel a look: "It's as if you don't have a share."

Fang Yongtang, who was driving, asked curiously while waiting for the traffic lights: "Bosses, what awards will you get this time?"

Qin Ke thought for a while and said, "It should be the 'Ye Qisun Physics Award'. This is to reward the direction of condensed matter physics."

In fact, the two are most famous in the direction of fluid mechanics. In terms of quantum computing, they have only published pre-collected papers on arXiv. The journal "Nature" will launch their work in the form of a cover article in the latest issue next week. The paper "Overview of Lime Topological Superconducting Vortex State Theoretical Model System".

However, the five physics awards are not in the direction of fluid mechanics, and it is unlikely that the two of them will be granted the "Lifetime Contribution Award of the Physical Society" early on, so the biggest possibility is the "Ye Qisun Physics Award", followed by the "Hu Gangfu Award" in the direction of experimental technology. "Physics Award", and finally the "Rao Yutai Physics Award" in the fields of optics, acoustics, atomic and molecular physics. After all, quantum computing is useful in quantum computing.

"Why do you feel that you are not very happy after winning the grand prize? This award should be regarded as a very high-level award in China, right?"

Hearing Fang Yongtang's question, Qin Ke and Ning Qingyun looked at each other and smiled, only to realize that their vision and vision had already made a qualitative leap.

When they first won the "Shiing-shen Chern Mathematics Award" and "Breakthrough Award in Mathematics", the two were so excited that they didn't sleep well all night. When they won the "Fields Medal", they were even more excited like in a dream.But now, countless honors have been added, and various awards have been softened. I didn’t feel very happy when I won the ICCM Mathematics Award before. Even if I really won the "Ye Qisun Physics Award" this time, it just made them laugh.

Now their goal has been set on next year's Nobel Prize in Physics. Probably only the Nobel Prize in Physics will ignite their fierce competition. The two have devoted themselves to the topic of "Topological Quantum Computing" , there are also reasons for wanting to get the Nobel Prize for the results of this subject.

However, there are too many variables for the Nobel Prize in Physics. There are one or two thousand candidates every year. It can be said that it is no exaggeration to choose one in a thousand physics elites all over the world.

Even if Qin Ke and Ning Qingyun have achieved world-renowned achievements in the theoretical system of "topological quantum computing", they are not very sure that they will be able to securely win the Nobel Prize in Physics next year.

The Nobel Prize is divided into the Nobel Prize in Physics, the Nobel Prize in Chemistry, the Nobel Peace Prize, the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, the Nobel Prize in Literature, and the Nobel Prize in Economics. The Physics Prize and the Chemistry Prize are assessed by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences , Physiological or medical prizes are judged by the Royal Karolin Institute of Sweden, literary prizes are judged by the Swedish Academy of Letters, and peace prizes are elected by the Norwegian Parliament.

These judging committees have complete autonomy and are not influenced by the academic world. No matter how high your achievements are, if more than half of the judging committees don't approve or don't pay attention to it, it's still useless.

This is especially the case for theoretical physicists.

The famous theoretical physicist Einstein's theory of relativity has such a profound impact on the world, it can even be said that it has led the international physics community into a new era, but he did not win the Nobel Prize in Physics for his theory of relativity. The Bell Award Selection Committee discriminated against Jews, and the theory of relativity was too advanced and obscure, so they felt that they could not obtain actual observational data to prove the theory of relativity.

Later, because Planck, the academic leader, couldn't stand it anymore, he united a large number of physics experts to put pressure on the Nobel Prize selection committee, and finally forced the Nobel Prize selection committee to award Einstein the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1921. , the reason for the award has nothing to do with the theory of relativity, but because of the light quantum hypothesis proposed by Einstein in 1905, which successfully explained the photoelectric effect.

Another example is the famous theoretical physicist Edward Witten. He is recognized as the world's top expert in string theory and quantum field theory, but he missed the Nobel Prize in Physics for the rest of his life because the theory is too difficult to verify. To the Fields Medal in mathematics.

However, Qin Ke is still very confident in his and Ning Qingyun's "Lime Topological Superconducting Vortex State Theoretical Model System", and time will prove its value.

Moreover, Qin Ke has other big killers in his hands, such as "the existence of smooth solutions to NS equations", which is a millennium problem that spans the two major disciplines of physics and mathematics. Once this problem is solved, it will not only affect mathematics The research in the direction of partial differential equations has a great role in promoting, and it will have a pivotal and huge impact on the field of fluid mechanics in physics. At that time, no matter how proud the Nobel Prize in Physics is, it will have to bow its head obediently.

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When Qin and Ke rushed to the venue, they almost stepped on the spot. The venue was already crowded with people, and the huge main venue was almost full of seats.

The venue was a bit noisy, everyone was whispering, but when Qin Kela led Ning Qingyun into the main venue, it still attracted a lot of attention.

Many people stopped whispering and cast all sorts of complicated glances at these two young professors who had become famous all over the world and were too young.

Qin Ke has long been used to such scenes, and at a glance, he saw many familiar faces. His teacher Jiang Weixian, academician Guo Weiyang, and several physics professors and senior researchers from Xiake Academy also came up.

Qin Ke smiled and nodded to everyone, then pulled Ning Qingyun to his seat under the guidance of the staff.

To his surprise, the seats of the two were actually in the middle of the first row, and the person sitting next to him was actually a world-renowned master of theoretical physics, a Nobel Prize winner in physics, and an expert in particle physics and condensed matter physics. Beidou, Mr. Yang!
Mr. Yang is over 140 years old, and he has seldom appeared in public in recent years. The last time was at a special event for the [-]th anniversary of Einstein’s birth four years ago, so many people rumored that he was in poor health, but now Qin Ke Ning Qingyun clearly saw that he was in good spirits, and the person sitting next to him should be his relatives or family doctor.

Mr. Yang nodded to the two with a smile: "You are Qin Ke and Ning Qingyun, I have heard your names before, you are very good, keep working hard." He spoke clearly, logically, and in excellent condition.

Qin Ke and Ning Qingyun hurriedly replied: "Mr. Yang, hello!"

Jiao Yanmin, the president of the Physics Society, came over and said enthusiastically, "Professor Qin, Professor Ning, are you surprised or surprised? This time Mr. Yang came here specially to meet you and present you with awards."

Qin Ke and Ning Qingyun were flattered, and quickly thanked Mr. Yang again.

Mr. Yang nodded slightly: "Your article "Overview of Lime Topological Superconducting Vortex State Theoretical Model System", I have heard someone read it, and it is very well written. I have written a recommendation letter yesterday, and I will send it to you." To the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, recommending you as candidates for the Nobel Prize in Physics next year. I wish you success."

Every September to January 9 of the following year is the time for the Nobel Prize jury to accept candidates recommended for various Nobel Prizes.

Although according to the rules, the general candidates will not know who recommended them, but this rule has existed in name only for a hundred years, and the recommenders will inform the candidates, which is a kind of favor and a kind of recognition.

Although Qin and Ke knew that Mr. Oliver had submitted a letter of recommendation, adding Mr. Yang's letter of recommendation would undoubtedly carry much more weight, so I would like to thank you again now.

Seeing that Qin Ke, Ning Qingyun and Mr. Yang had a happy chat, everyone in the venue was a little envious, especially those who had received word that they already knew the list of winners of this year's physics award, and their emotions were even more complicated.

For many old professors, even though they knew that these two young people had won the Fields Medal and the first prize of the National Science and Technology Award, and were top mathematical geniuses, they were not in their own field, so they just sighed twice.

But now, these two young people who are too young to be their own students want to get the prize of the Physics Society that they long for but can't get, how can they calmly send blessings?

Those who came to gain knowledge with their mentors saw Qin Ke and Ning Qingyun's eyes sparkle, as if they were excited to see idols.

The opening ceremony of the Year-end Academic Exchange Conference of the Physical Society began soon. President Jiao Yanmin delivered a speech, and then announced the winners of various physics awards.

Like the "Chen Shiingshen Prize in Mathematics" and "Zhong Jiaqing Prize in Mathematics", these lists have been selected in advance and are only announced now.

As Qin Ke expected, he and Ning Qingyun won the "Ye Qisun Physics Award" in the direction of condensed matter physics, and the reason was to commend the two for their outstanding achievements in condensed matter physics.

After all, Mr. Yang was getting old, and he left after awarding the awards. He hardly spoke much during the whole process, let alone made any speeches, but before leaving, Mr. Yang specially encouraged Qin Ke and Ning Qingyun, This special treatment made Qin Ke and Ning Qingyun the focus of the audience.

Fortunately, after the awarding ceremony, the academic report will be entered. Participants can choose whether to stay in the main venue to listen to the special report, or go to the sub-venue for poster exchanges, exhibition exchanges, or listen to online and offline oral reports. The guests of the main venue All of a sudden it was diverted.

Qin Ke’s specially-invited special report is scheduled for the condensed matter session on the next morning. At that time, it is only necessary to talk about the main points of the paper on topological quantum computing, and there is no need to prepare much.After Qin Ke went to greet his teacher Jiang Weixian and other acquaintances, he took Ning Qingyun to the branch venue to have a look.

He came to attend the academic meeting of this physics society, in addition to winning prizes and giving reports on stage, he also wanted to recruit talents.

Those who are qualified to give reports on stage are basically experts in physics and senior professors. These people are unlikely to be willing to do research under them. Qin Ke also thinks that young people are more creative and motivated, so he wants to take advantage of this opportunity. The next summer, the largest and most comprehensive academic event in the physics world, found some outstanding young researchers and brought them to their own quantum computing laboratory and new energy and water purification research center.

There are many branch venues, which are distributed in different teaching buildings of Jingcheng University of Science and Technology. However, due to limited space, a small number of branch venues are in hotels near the school.

The first branch venue Qin Ke went to was "Topological Materials, Physics and Devices", which was located in classrooms 108-112 of the third teaching building of Jingcheng University of Technology, of which room 108 was used for oral reports, and the rest of the classrooms were used for posters Exhibitions, academic exchanges.

He had just arrived at the third teaching building with Ning Qingyun, but found that there were many people around the stairs, and there were shouts and noises.

(End of this chapter)