Chapter 401

Under the click of photos, the four mathematicians smiled and accepted the trophy from President Kenneth.

The four Filipino Award winners, led by Francisco, gave short acceptance speeches.

The content of the description, presumably, is also thanks to this, thanks to that, and so on.

Cheng Nuo stood in the corner, staring at the radiant four people in front of him with envy.

I don't know when I will reach such a height.

When the four Philippine laureates step down from the stage, the opening ceremony of the International Congress of Mathematicians will be over.

In addition to a few small-scale lectures, this afternoon and tomorrow will be another important project of the International Congress of Mathematics - academic reports.

Unlike ordinary presentations within the university or at academic exchange meetings, it is a great honor to be able to give an academic presentation here.

Therefore, the more than 180 mathematicians of this International Congress of Mathematicians are selected from the top mathematicians in 19 research fields of mathematics.

Almost all of them are at the top level in their respective fields.

There are two types of academic research reports: one hour and forty-five minutes, and the former is naturally higher than the latter.

For mathematicians who have no hope of competing for the Fields Medal, or who have passed the prescribed number of years for the Philippine Medal, it is a lifelong honor to be able to give academic presentations at the International Congress of Mathematicians.

In this year's conference, 185 speakers were invited, including 16 Chinese mathematicians, a record high.

You must know that in the early days of the 21st century, in the international congresses of mathematicians, only two or three Chinese mathematicians were invited to the conference. It is not easy to reach this level now.

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There are more than 100 academic presentations in total, and it is impossible for that group of mathematicians to participate in every one, not to mention that some academic reports are held at the same time.

The arrangement of more than 100 academic reports was already in hand at noon through Tan Weiwei's relationship.

Overall, the schedule is tight. Because there will be lectures and academic exchanges later.

Cheng Nuo certainly doesn't plan to listen to all the academic reports.

Pick up the important ones and listen to them that you are interested in, as for those academic reports that are not in your research direction or are not very famous by the invited speakers, Cheng Nuo naturally skips them directly.

It is worth mentioning that the thirteen Filipino laureates who participated in this International Congress of Mathematicians, oh no, seventeen to be exact.

Ten of the 17 Filipino Award winners were invited to be academic speakers.

Except for a Philippine Prize winner who studied mathematics and physics, the topic of the report was a little different from Cheng Nuo's research direction, and the other nine reports, no matter what, Cheng Nuo still had to listen to them.

If you don't do anything else, you should pay tribute to the heroism of the big guy.

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In the first session of the afternoon, Cheng Nuo listened to the academic report of Professor Billy, a current Philippine Prize winner at Princeton University.

It has to be said that the attractiveness of the Philippine Prize winners is extremely high among mathematicians.

The small auditorium of more than 300 people was almost completely full, except for a row of seats in the back.

Professor Billy, who was only sixty years old, slowly walked up to the podium with the support of an assistant, and Cheng Nuo, who was standing in the corner of the auditorium, saw the opportunity and sat on the empty seat in the last row.

However, a few mathematicians noticed what happened to Cheng Nuo, but they didn't care, they just thought that the waiter was tired from standing and sat down to rest when he saw that there was an empty seat.

However, if you go on a business trip to Philadelphia later, it is better not to stay at this Jinkai Hotel.

The waiters dare to be lazy, and the service of the hotel will not be good.

Tan Weiwei's uncle would never know, because this incident lowered the evaluation of their hotel by several mathematicians, but even if he knew, I am afraid he would not care. Rich and rich!

Professor Billy is a top expert in algebra theory.

In that year, it was precisely because of his significant contributions in the direction of group theory and cohomology algebra that he was named a Fields Medal winner.

Therefore, the core of his academic report is still algebra, but with a little addition of arithmetic geometry.

The name of the academic report is "Some results on affine Deligne-Lusztig varieties", which translates to "Results of a class of affine DL cluster varieties".

The so-called affine DL cluster belongs to a class of algebraic clusters. An algebraic cluster, on the other hand, is a set of common zero-point solutions to the set of polynomials in algebraic geometry.

Affine DL cluster is a concept proposed by the Chinese mathematician Danton Coreller a year ago, and after a year of development, it has become one of the hot issues in the field of algebraic geometry.

Cheng Nuo had little contact with algebra before, so he only knew what affine DL clusters were in general, but Cheng Nuo didn't know much about their specific properties.

The content of Professor Beer's academic report on the stage is to introduce the latest progress of affine DL clusters through Lie algebra using Lie groups as the starting point.

Even if he sat in the last row and couldn't touch the big guy in the front row, Cheng Nuo still raised his head and listened with relish.

Most of the mathematicians in the back row came to see Professor Bill, and because of the wrong major, they didn't pay much attention to what he taught.

When they were distracted, they subconsciously glanced at the waiter and saw the waiter listening carefully with his neck straight.

They were stunned for a moment, then laughed dumbly.

Does this waiter really think that he can become a mathematician by listening to an academic report here and receiving the influence of a math boss?

Not to mention anything else, what Professor Bill said above, that waiter can understand one-tenth, oh no, one percent, then their group of mathematicians can collectively buy a piece of tofu and die.

"If you have any questions, you can raise your hand and ask them, or you can write them down on a small piece of paper and upload them to me, either way. Professor Bill finished the content of the PPT and asked everyone present with a smile.

As the big man of the Philippine Award, Professor Bill, the invited speaker, naturally gave an one-hour academic report, but it certainly could not be a neat one-hour academic report.

Fifty minutes have passed since the report, and the remaining ten minutes or so are reserved for questions from everyone.

Cheng Nuo, who gained a lot after listening to a report, suppressed the excitement in his heart while precipitating the content of the report.

Cheng Nuo, who didn't know much about the direction, was naturally full of confusion now.

However, he could not ask a question blatantly, so he had to tear off half of the paper from the notebook he had brought with him, write down the content of the question he was going to ask, stand up, pretend to be passing by, and hand it to the mathematician in front of him. "Sir, please pass on. ”

"Oh, good. The mathematician subconsciously took it and handed it to the man in front of him.

After a few seconds of froze, the mathematician seemed to think of something and turned his head sharply.

Looking at the empty seat behind him, the mathematician felt a chill down his spine.