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After hearing Feng Lan's words, Ning Chen started thinking in his heart.

If he knew anyone, Ning Chen would definitely want to be able to choose his roommate.

However, only Ning Chen from Shengzhou University participated in this training camp, and Ning Chen was not familiar with the others.

At this time, I saw a person walking towards Ning Chen and said to Ning Chen:

"If you don't mind, can we share a dormitory?"

Ning Chen looked over after hearing the sound and found that he knew this person.

It was Lin You from Yanjing University who came second in the individual all-around award in the previous autumn competition and won the only individual gold medal besides Ning Chen.

Ning Chen had a good impression of Lin You. Hearing what Lin You said, Ning Chen had exactly the same intention.

"Okay, then we will share a dormitory."

When Feng Lan saw that the two people had successfully "matched freely", he arranged for the staff to give them keys and took them to the dormitory.

The dormitory arranged for them by Shuimu University is quite good. The environment of the dormitory is very good and can meet some basic living needs. It is slightly better than the doctoral student dormitory that Ning Chen lived in at Shengzhou University.

Ning Chen and Lin You packed up their things, and then they started chatting.

Before this, although the two people knew each other, they had not even spoken. Today was the first time that they communicated directly.

"Lin You, there should be quite a few people from your Yan University participating in this training camp."

"Well, there are a few undergraduate students, and there are more graduate students. There are about a dozen people in total."

This number is less than Ning Chen estimated. It seems that this training camp still has a high threshold.

"So, this training camp is still mainly for graduate students?"

"Yes, after all, graduate students have stronger scientific research capabilities. Many undergraduates have not reached this stage at all. In fact, I am the same. I have never done any subject before, unlike you who have published so many papers."

Ning Chen learned a lot of valuable information from Lin You, which was inaccessible at Shengzhou University.

"It seems that no matter whether I continue to stay at Shengzhou University in the future, I will go out more and communicate with the outside world." Ning Chenxin said.

"Lin You, the people participating in the training camp this time should be your teammates from previous competitions. Why don't you live in the same dormitory with them?"

Hearing Ning Chen's question, Lin You also hesitated.

"They have already chosen their dormitories, and I also want to learn more from you."

In fact, the relationship between Lin You and several teammates was not good, because when they jointly requested to review Ning Chen's results, Lin You did not participate.

Lin You felt that there was no possibility of Ning Chen cheating. It was unfair to report someone for no reason, even though Ning Chen might never know about it.

However, Lin You did not intend to tell Ning Chen about this in front of Ning Chen. Lin You was worried that Ning Chen would feel uncomfortable because of it.

Ning Chen didn't think much about it, because there were five people in a team at that time, and maybe the other four people had formed a team with each other.

"Ning Chen, you are so good at math, why didn't you participate in the competition in high school?"

Lin You had always been very confused about this question, so he asked Ning Chen.

"Maybe I started to learn it late. Although my math scores were pretty good in high school, I wasn't at the level to participate in competitions. After I went to college, I had more time, and I suddenly became interested in studying mathematics..."

Ning Chen's explanation sounded a bit unbelievable, but Ning Chen's achievements were here, and Lin You only thought that this was a special case of genius.

After a hot chat, the two quickly became familiar with each other. They both had a good impression of each other and felt that the other was a very suitable roommate.

Through chatting, Ning Chen found out that Lin You was not only recommended to Yanda through the competition, but he was also the first CMO of the year and won the IMO championship on behalf of China.

In the evening, the two had dinner together and discussed some math problems. After that, they went back to the room to study separately without disturbing each other.

The next day, Feng Lan organized everyone to come to the conference room.

After a while, Professor Qiu Chengtong was going to come over in person to hold a meeting with everyone and talk about the specific plans after this training camp. Everyone came to the conference room in advance to get ready and started discussing quietly among themselves.

Ning Chen saw a few familiar faces, all of whom had participated in the autumn competition before, and more of them looked older than them, and seemed to have master's or doctorate degrees.

After a while, Qiu Chengtong also came and greeted everyone with a smile.

"Hello, classmates, I am very happy to see you here. You are all very outstanding rising stars in the field of mathematics in China. I hope that we can all gain something in the next training camp."

After chatting with everyone for a while, Qiu Chengtong's face gradually became serious.

"Now I want to ask you a question. The reason why you chose mathematics as a major is because you are interested in mathematics and hope to do mathematics in the future, or do you just use mathematics as a stepping stone so that you can seek better opportunities in the future? How about developing and making more money?”

Hearing Qiu Chengtong's question, the conference room fell silent.

It is true that students who can come here are unlikely to have no interest in mathematics, and mathematics may even be their favorite subject.

But at the same time, everyone will also consider future employment issues. After studying for so many years, who doesn’t want to have better development after graduation.

At this time, a student said:

“I chose mathematics because I like and am good at mathematics. Of course, I also hope that I can make more money through mathematics research.”

Hearing this student's words, some people couldn't help laughing, even Qiu Chengtong was smiling.

"Your answer is very honest. We are all living in society, and it is understandable to want to make more money. Of course, what I want to say is that I hope everyone will never forget the original intention of doing mathematical research."

"If you don't have a strong interest in mathematics, don't want to do mathematics in the future, and are only interested in going abroad and making money, then you can leave now."

After Qiu Chengtong finished speaking, no one left.

After all, everyone has a certain understanding of the content of this training camp before coming, and they definitely hope to achieve some real results through this training camp.

Seeing that no one left, Qiu Chengtong nodded and said:

"Okay, since everyone has the same attitude, I believe this training camp will be a successful training camp. Next, I will talk about the detailed arrangements for this training camp."

Many people opened their notebooks, ready to record what Qiu Chengtong said next.

"First of all, we need to determine the topic of our research within two weeks. After two weeks, we will have the thesis defense on time. I hope that the research topics chosen by everyone will be novel and have certain research significance. Whether it is an undergraduate student As graduate students, I believe everyone here has such abilities.”

After hearing Qiu Chengtong's words, many people felt a lot of pressure in their hearts.

Two weeks to determine the research topic and conduct the thesis defense is still very tight.

But now that everyone is here, they will definitely do their best to accept Qiu Chengtong's request and stimulate their strongest potential.

"During the entire training period, I will stay at Shuimu University. Everyone is welcome to communicate with me on mathematics. We will invite a professor from the mathematics field to give an open class every day to talk about his research results. Of course, I will also talk about it myself. , I believe everyone will learn something from it.”

"In addition, we also welcome everyone to communicate with other members of the training camp, but it needs to be with the other party's consent. After all, everyone's time is very tight during this period, and we hope everyone can arrange their own time."

"Okay, that's all for today. You can go back now and think about your own research topics. If you want to communicate with me, please contact Teacher Feng Lan and explain what you want to research. If I feel interested , I will call you over."

The meeting lasted shorter than everyone expected. Many people also expected Qiu Chengtong to give them some research directions, but Qiu Chengtong did not say these things and just asked everyone to think about the direction of their own topic selection.

"Anyway, experts will come to give public lectures every day, and I should be able to find some suitable topics."

Many students had this idea and stood up and left the conference room.

Ning Chen has not yet thought about his future research direction. In terms of topic selection, Ning Chen does not have much experience and needs to think carefully about it when he returns.