After listening to Lu Zhou's words, Lu Kaimin pondered for a while.

After a moment, he said.

"Thank you for your valuable advice, we will consider it seriously."

Lu Zhou nodded and did not continue to speak.

He doesn't need to rely on gimmicks to get funding, so he is more straightforward.

Out of responsibility, he put forward his opinion, and as for whether to refer to it, it is not his business.

Moreover, Mr. Lu certainly cannot just listen to his side of the story, but also synthesize the experience of many experts. When it comes to specific production, performance, safety, etc., engineers in the battery field have more to say.

A group of people continued to eat, and the rest was basically about life and family life.

Except for being frantically tested by Mr. Lu and Dean Li by the two old guys who used the tone of the elders to ridicule the younger generations, "whether there is a partner" and "domestic or foreign", they didn't talk about any serious topics.

After chatting with Mr. Lu, Lu Zhou suddenly found that he was still a little difficult to calm down, but he seemed to have adjusted unconsciously.

It's not that learning makes a sense of mission.

But he suddenly discovered that at some point, it was not only academics in the academic world who listened attentively to his reports, but also his opinions went beyond the academic circle.

The rise and fall of a company, the development strategy of a country, and even the future of the world are all imperceptibly influenced by his thesis.

There is not even a need for a thesis.

It is no exaggeration to say that he only needs to move his fingers and shout "lithium empty battery is good" on his neck, and a batch of scientific research funds will pour into this direction immediately tomorrow...... Of course, if you do this, you will definitely be scolded by people who really understand.

For the whole world, what he has done may be just a small work, but the changes he has brought can be seen with the naked eye.

In contrast, the shock brought by 400 million seems to be less exciting......

emmm……

All right.

If there is, it's only a little.

……

The next day, the MRS meeting continued, and Lu Zhou paid attention to many interesting reports.

This is a great opportunity to be exposed to the frontiers of research, and anyone who intends to make a difference in this field will not miss this opportunity.

And it's not just about communicating academic issues.

At the conference, he also met a lot of interesting people, especially a man whose life was full of legends.

This man was the legendary David Shaw (. Sha) – It's hard not to mention the name when it comes to computational chemistry.

He became a professor at Columbia University before he was 30 years old, and he has made a name for himself in the academic community as a top expert on hypermassive parallel computing.

However, Columbia University is located in New York, and there is an outbreak of business elites everywhere, tens of millions of dollars a minute, living a life of all kinds of flowers, drinks, and beautiful women......

If a normal man stays in such an environment, his mentality will change.

David Shaw is no exception, after sitting on the professor's cold bench for several years, he finally couldn't sit anymore and entered the big dye vat of Wall Street.

Everyone thought that he might end up like those professors who couldn't bear the loneliness, silently drowning in this big dye vat.

The end result, however, was a surprise to everyone, and in less than a decade, his name had become a legend on Wall Street.

Through his self-created large-scale parallel computing high-frequency trading model, David sheared $4.1 billion of wool in the capital market and entered the top 500 of the global wealth list.

Obviously, at this time, he has got everything he wanted but couldn't get.

If that's all there is to it, his legend will remain on Wall Street at best, becoming one of the chicken soups for incentive fund men.

However, just when he had reached the peak of his life, he suddenly had an epiphany.

Yes, this guy suddenly found that this kind of life is not what he really wants!

And his epiphany was not just a talk like a teacher in a mountain village.

At the peak of his life, this bull man suddenly killed a horse pistol, took off his suit, and returned to academia strongly.

For him, who is no longer short of money, he no longer has to kneel and lick the officials of the NIH and NSF to ask for a pitiful funding, he will use the money to smash wherever he is lacking, and he does not care about the business prospects outside of academia.

Can't do supercomputing in computational chemistry?

Rent one? Buy one?

No, he built one himself!

Then, the "Star Destroyer" in the world of molecular dynamics, the famous supercomputer Anton, was born.

To be honest, I don't dare to write like that.

“…… You are a genius in mathematics, I am a genius in massively parallel computing, and we can work together to build a new framework for the whole of computational chemistry. Think about it, 100 years from now, when people think of computational chemistry, they will think of the two of us, and we will be the founders of this discipline! ”

At the official party held by MRS, David, who was sitting opposite, chatted with Lu Zhou.

Although most people who call themselves geniuses will be seen as a sign of narcissism, perhaps because he has been on Wall Street for a long time, when this benevolent brother says this, it is as natural as breathing, and it does not make people feel disobedient.

Regarding the blueprint he described, Lu Zhou joked with a smile: "Then after 100 years, a group of young men complained to the textbook, saying what the hell this guy wrote?" ”

"That's right, that's how it feels," David snapped his fingers and said with a laugh, "How's it going, are you interested?" ”

"I'm really interested," Lu Zhou said with a smile, "If you have more specific ideas, you can come to Princeton to find me." ”

"No problem," David grinned, "if you find any interesting mathematical models that require supercomputing while doing polymer experiments, you can come to me in New York." ”

Hearing supercomputing, Lu Zhou's heart moved slightly, and he said: "In fact, I have always been interested in supercomputing, and I even plan to buy one myself. ”

"It's a good idea, but it's not a small amount of money," came to mind, and David continued, "By the way, did you sign a patent license agreement with Umicore?" ”

Lu Zhou: "I signed a letter of intent, what's wrong?" ”

David poured himself a glass of red wine and said slowly: "If I were you, I should consider the issue of taxes at this time." ”

Lu Zhou frowned slightly: "Still need to pay taxes?" ”

David said in an affirmative tone: "Of course, as long as this money enters the United States, it will definitely not escape the eyes of the tax office, or the nose...... Truth be told, their noses are smarter than dogs. And you're a professor at Princeton now, and I'm guessing you've definitely changed your visa type. ”

Lu Zhou nodded with a serious expression.

Indeed, his annual salary as a mathematics professor is subject to taxes. It's just that the 400,000 yuan that Princeton gave him is an annual salary after tax, so he hasn't paid attention to this aspect.

Lu Zhou asked, "Is there a way to avoid it?" ”

David smiled confidently.

"It's easy, you can just find an island and open an account. Of course, my suggestion is that you can set up a patent management company directly in the Cayman Islands and hire a few accountants for a little interest in your bank account. Microsoft and IBM do exactly what they do when they get their intellectual property revenues, and there are a lot of firms on Wall Street that handle such cases. ”

"As long as the flow of money happens in the accounts between offshore companies, the money has never entered the United States, and there has never been an actual operation here, and the federal tax office will not be able to control your head."