Before the Spring Festival, Shen Qi attended a high-end annual meeting of the scientific community and talked with other academicians for a long time.

The academicians of the Department of Mathematical Physics of the Academy of Sciences are very concerned about the development of the Shen Qi Mathematical and Physical Research Center, and Shen Qi also talked about the current situation of the center.

After the conversation, Shen Qi himself concluded that my center is currently in the guerrilla stage, and it is not a regular army.

"Shen Qi, you can apply for the State Key Laboratory. Academician Pan, who had entrusted Shen Qi to solve the quantum key problem, said.

"I have such an idea, and I have mentioned it, but there is no reply from above. "There are many academicians, divided into different levels such as Ben, Qi, and Niu, and Shen Qi is considered a Ben-level academician in the minds of others.

Other Ben-level academicians are in charge of state key laboratories in various fields.

When Shen Qi first returned to China, he had no money, no people, and no scientific research results, so he was naturally embarrassed to mention any state key laboratory.

After several years of development and gradual growth, Shen Qi put the plan of the State Key Laboratory of the Center on the agenda.

The current working model of the center is that the project dominates everything.

In the N-S equation project, Shen Qi pulled Witten and worked hard with Zhou Yu'an and Xiao Junlong for a year.

In the mathematics unification project, Shen Qi pulled Li Zhenqiang and his wife, and the project has been established for a year, and there has been no specific progress.

M theory project, Shen Qi once again pulled Witten, and at present, Sha Dongdong and Qu Yang are following up the approval progress of the project report.

The FASTER project team specializes in condensed matter physics, and only this project team is a bit of a regular army.

So Shen Qi laughed and said that his center was a guerrilla army.

And now, Shen Qi is ready to complete the transition from a guerrilla army to a regular army and set up a state key laboratory.

The State Key Laboratory under the control of Ben-level academicians is basically equivalent to an independent research institute in terms of funding, equipment, and the number and quality of scientific researchers.

The structure of the State Key Laboratory is usually that the big boss is an academician, and there will be a few Changjiang Scholar professors under the big boss, who are the small boss.

Each Changjiang Scholar leads a scientific research team, the backbone of which is a young associate professor and young and middle-aged professors.

The associate professors and young and middle-aged associate professors in the team form different research groups according to their professional directions.

The work in the research group is postdoctoral fellows, doctors, and graduate students, which can be understood as part-time jobs.

There is a world of difference between scientists and scientific research workers, Shen Qi and their center, there are only two people who can be called scientists, he and Witten.

The entire Shen Qi Mathematical Research Center, which currently has the prototype of the State Key Laboratory, is the FASTER project team.

The ultimate setting of the FASTER project team is the "State Key Laboratory of Condensed Matter Physics", which is Shen Qi's idea.

The team of the FASTER project team has been set up, and in the past few years, it has focused on the research of condensed matter physics, and has produced several scientific research achievements and patents.

The upgrade of the FASTER project team is actually the upgrade of scientific research talents.

Shen Qi has a reserve candidate, Tang Yuan.

Tang Yuan has been rated as an associate professor, and he is at a critical stage of his career, and is currently undergoing the transformation from a senior scientific research migrant worker to a small boss of scientific research contractors.

Shen Qi summoned Tang Yuan to the director's office alone and asked, "To what extent has that NMG paper been advanced?"

"It's about to be finalized, this time we're amazing, we don't have to vote, we ask for a manuscript from other journals. Tang Yuan was designated by Shen Qi as the corresponding author of this paper, the first author was Yang Dingtian, and Shen Qi's name came last.

Foreign journals or research institutions are not too aware of the system of every academic institution in China, and when they look at a paper, the most important thing is the corresponding author, and then the first author.

The corresponding author is responsible for the overall control of a project, and the first author is usually the specific executor of the project.

Shen Qi no longer needs to rely on the signature of the corresponding author and the first author in the mathematics and physics circles to brush up his prestige, the reason why he signed at the end is because of the integration of Xueba, and the second is to hang his name, and the article is easier to publish in well-known journals, which is beneficial to other members of the FASTER project team.

"Tang Yuan, you have a good character, your academic level is stable and improving, do you have the confidence to lead the FASTER project team?" asked Shen Qi.

Tang Yuan nodded and said, "Under the guidance of Professor Shen, of course I have confidence. ”

"I mean, if I'm not in the country for a long time, you lead the team alone, is there any problem?"

"Where are you going?"

"That's not the point, the point is the last sentence I just said. ”

"It should ...... It's not a big problem. "Tang Yuan is a spirit, Boss Shen is going to promote me to be the team leader?

Counting Shen Qi, the concurrently team leader, there are a total of 12 people in the FASTER project team.

Except for Yang Dingtian, the remaining 10 team members are all from Yan University Institute.

In fact, Yang Dingtian was also born in Yan University, he studied in the School of Physics for undergraduate and graduate degrees, and his doctor followed Shen Qi.

Tang Yuan was quite familiar with this group of people, and there were two researchers chatting in the smoking room before, and they had some opinions about Yang Dingtian, but they had no opinion on Tang Yuan.

The interpersonal relationship is good, which is Tang Yuan's advantage.

Whether Tang Yuan's academic level can reach a new level needs to be continuously observed.

In any case, Tang Yuan is conscientious and diligent in his academic attitude, and Shen Qi decided to give him a chance, or opportunities and challenges coexist: "I plan to establish the State Key Laboratory of Condensed Matter Physics in the center, and the FASTER project team is one of the team, and a new condensed matter physics team may be formed in the future." There are many research directions in condensed matter physics, and you are in charge of the FASTER project team, which mainly focuses on amorphous materials. ”

Tang Yuan has been in the circle for so many years, he knows the rules of the game, Director Shen is to promote himself to be the small boss of the State Key Laboratory.

The small bosses who lead the team are basically Changjiang scholars, or they are cattle people who are invited back from abroad. These people are academician reserves, always ready to go to the next level and be promoted to the real bigwigs.

"Thank you, Director Shen, I'll do my best!" Tang Yuan is still under pressure and motivated.

Shen Qi made it very clear that in the future, a competition mechanism will be introduced in the center, and more than one condensed matter physics team will simultaneously promote research in related directions.

In order to build the State Key Laboratory of Condensed Matter Physics of the Shen Qi Mathematical Research Center, Shen Qi must dig up some elites from the outside to achieve talent upgrading.

Once this State Key Laboratory is approved, the funding will be implemented according to the new standards, and Shen Qi and they will be able to do something more significant.

In addition to fan letters, Shen Qi occasionally receives manuscripts of academic papers, which are sent by the journal and invite Shen Qi to be a reviewer.

Ordinary journals are also reluctant to find Shen Qi as a reviewer, and they are all internationally renowned academic journals, including mathematics journals and physics journals.

The job of reviewer is unpaid, and the reviewer does it entirely with a sincere academic zeal.

Of course, most of the top authorities have this enthusiasm, and they will review other people's manuscripts when time permits.

Shen Qi has two manuscripts in front of him, one from the Annals of Mathematics sponsored by Princeton, and the other from PRL, sponsored by the American Physical Society.

Shen Qi first reviewed the mathematical manuscript, which was a thesis manuscript in the direction of number theory.

In recent decades, Fermat's theorem has been solved, the Riemann conjecture has been solved, and Gochai has been solved.

There is only one conundrum left in the field of number theory, the BSD conjecture.

Many scholars have tried to transform and cross borders in other fields, and mathematicians who still insist on the superhard field of analytic number theory are as precious as treasures.

The corresponding author of this number theory paper is Salim-Ohayon, and the mailing address is MIT.

This is a single-blind review operation, Shen Qi knows the basic information of the author of the manuscript, and the author does not know who the reviewer is.

Looking at the name, Shen Qi felt that the corresponding author of MIT should be an Arab, or an Arab.

This paper is analytic number theory, and it is very hard written, which really tests the hard analysis ability of the reviewer.

It is not uncommon for reviewers to not be able to understand the manuscript, but fortunately, this number theory paper was handed over to Shen Qi, and he reviewed it with great interest.