Chapter 105: Toronto

In front of Professor Searle, Junxin calmly said that he was Junxin, not someone else's successor, and so on, which couldn't help but impress Professor Searle. Decades later, in Professor Searle's memoirs, he recorded the incident in detail and circulated widely.

Declined Professor Searle's invitation to stay for dinner, in the past and present life, Junxin was really not used to the taste of French food, so after leaving the École Normale Supérieure in Paris, Junxin stopped a taxi, came to the vicinity of Chinatown, had dinner and visited the scenery of Chinatown, so he left here with a slightly disappointed mood, and took a taxi back to the hotel near the airport.

Chinatown is well-known in most parts of China, because in the eyes of the Chinese public, it is a place where overseas Chinese people gather and live, but in Junxin's view, Chinatown is becoming more and more like an overseas commercial street.

In my previous life, I had visited Chinatown in New York a few times, but at that time, I had been studying abroad for a few years, so I didn't feel that I was a little disappointed in this life because I had lived in China for too long and didn't have a sense of novelty in Chinatown.

After a night of silence, Junxin and Zhang left the hotel early the next morning, boarded the plane to Canada, and because they had contacted the organizing committee of the conference in advance, they would get off the plane at Toronto Pearson International Airport, the largest international airport in Toronto. Therefore, after the airport was built in 1939, which ranked 27th in the world, Junxin and Zhang also spent a lot of effort to find the reception staff of the organizing committee, a second-year graduate student from the School of Chemistry of the University of Toronto, one of the four major colleges in Canada, a beautiful and scholarly Ms. Laura Jennifer.

The University of Toronto is one of only two non-American institutions in the Association of American Universities. The University of Toronto is second only to Harvard University in North America in terms of the number of scientific papers published each year, and ranks among the top five in the world in terms of the number of citations. Major contributions: the discovery of stem cells and insulin, the invention and development of electron pacemakers, multi-touch technology, electron microscopy, anti-load clothing, the complete theory of NP, and the discovery of the first verified black hole.

To be honest, this is also an important reason why Junxin will come to participate in the International Union of Crystallography. Guy is also one of the world's most famous places in mathematics, and Fields, the founder of the Fields Medal, is from the University of Toronto. In China, because of Mr. Qian Weichang, one of the three coins, the University of Toronto is also famous.

However, what interests Junxin the most is the college system of the University of Toronto. This reminded him of the four houses in Harry Potter that he had watched. Unlike Hogwarts, however, the University of Toronto has seven houses.

"Oh, Dear, I can't believe you're so young!" After hearing Junxin's self-introduction, Laura naturally knew which of the two would attend the International Union of Crystallography Congress.

"You know!" Junxin shrugged his shoulders and said, "Being young may be the biggest reason why they don't believe me." ”

"But I repeated your experiments and found that the conclusions I got were exactly the same as yours, and although the data was slightly different, the analysis results thought that it was a problem with the accuracy of the instrument." Laura shook her head, still amazed.

"I think if you can look at it from a mathematical point of view, maybe it will be more helpful for your research," Junxin suggested. Crystallography is arguably one of the most mathematically dependent branches of chemistry, especially geometry and calculus.

"Thank you for your advice, I'll consider your opinion!" Laura glanced at Junxin gratefully, and then said, "You two, please have it here, my car is parked in a nearby garage, so I have to walk a little bit." ”

"It's okay!" It's one of the busiest airports in the world, and if you want to get through it quickly, it's a good idea to drive around.

The three of them chatted while walking, and in the chat, Junxin knew that Laura Jennifer in front of him was a student of Trinity College, currently studying chemistry at St. George's College, doing research in crystallography, this time the International Federation of Crystallography was held in Toronto, because it was a summer vacation, the organizing committee of the conference borrowed the conference room and auditorium of the University of Toronto as the venue, not in a hotel. Therefore, the volunteers are all students from the School of Chemistry and some volunteers from other departments who have stayed at the university.

However, the place where the participants will be located is not the student residence hall of the University of Toronto, but the on-campus hotel of the university. It's like a guest house or hotel on campus in China.

The hotel is very large, it is the school property of the University of Toronto, in order to show the sincerity of the conference, all the best floors have been vacated, Junxin and Zhang live in a one-bedroom two-family room, Junxin's room is a room with a balcony near the lake, there is no doubt that the organizing committee of the conference to Junxin's treatment is really high.

Taking advantage of the time when Director Zhang and Junxin were cleaning up, Jennifer naturally lost no time in asking Junxin for some things. This has become a common practice at international conferences, and the scientists who attend the conference are generally happy to answer questions from the young people who host them. This kind of thing Junxin did many times when he was a student at Princeton, but Jennifer's advice seemed a bit out of place.

Junxin didn't think twice about some of the questions raised by Jennifer, especially when he wanted to participate in the Crystallography Federation some time ago, he made up for the crystallography evil, with the accumulation of fifty years ahead of the times, and Jennifer's questions were naturally handy.

At first, Jennifer was still skeptical about Junxin's level, but as the problem gradually deepened, the surprise on her face never stopped. The questions he asked were relatively simple at the beginning, but the more he got to the back, the more difficult the questions became, some of them were even questions that he had only studied during this time, and even questions that his mentor was studying, but these questions that seemed to her to be extremely cutting-edge and difficult were so simple in the eyes of this young man who was even younger than him.

"I can't believe you're so knowledgeable!" By the end of the question, Jennifer had already regarded Junxin as a mentor-level figure.

"Oh, you've won the prize!" Junxin wiped the sweat from his head, "Most of my suggestions are actually from a mathematical point of view, maybe they are just a little enlightening to you, so you don't have to worry about it." ”

"Anyway, your guidance is of great reference value to me, thank you."

"Okay, I'm going to rest now, and I'll get in touch when I have time." Junxin yawned and said, after a long journey, he was indeed very tired.

"Then I won't bother you, I wish you a good rest." Jennifer said goodbye with great interest, "In the next few days, I will be your guide, and you can find me if you have something." ”

"Ah, thank you!"