"Junxin, the person recommended by Professor Liang is here, do you want to go and talk?" As soon as Junxin returned to the Institute of Mathematics, Xu Jiang had already brought someone over and waited in Junxin's office.

"You've brought people here, what else do I have to say?" Junxin shook his head and said with a wry smile, "Hello, professor, what do you call it?" ”

"Hello, Director Jun, I am Zhang Yang from the Institute of Chemical Engineering, Professor Liang has already told me some information about the establishment of the laboratory, I am very happy to be able to join this team, I hope to take care of it in the future."

Junxin looked at the person who introduced himself, and there was a strong bookish air in the person, as well as the unique characteristics in the laboratory. The people in the Chemical Industry Institute are all hands-on experts, which Jun Xin does not doubt, but the bookish atmosphere on his body means that this person also has a relatively deep theoretical foundation.

"Professor Zhang doesn't have to be like this, it's easy on my side, as long as we can complete our tasks well and quickly, everything is easy to talk about." Junxin nodded and said, "I'm younger than you, so you don't have to call me director, just call me by my name." ”

"Okay, I'll be rude once." Professor Zhang responded with a smile, and it seemed that he was not a rigid person.

"Sit down, it just so happens that you and Professor Xu are here, and the three of us will work together today to finalize some things in the laboratory. If you and Professor Xu have any thoughts on the laboratory, you can tell me now. ”

Xu Jiang and Zhang Yang glanced at each other, and Xu Jiang said, "I want to know what your position is in the laboratory?" ”

"Positioning?" Junxin was slightly puzzled.

"Yes, positioning. This is important. Xu Jiang opened his mouth to explain, "The so-called positioning is what is the goal of this laboratory, how to obtain funding, what direction to develop, what to focus on, and so on. ”

Junxin was silent for a moment and said, "Although I haven't thought about this question carefully, I can also have a rough answer." ”

"Since its establishment, the goal of this laboratory has been to become an international center for quasicrystalloid research. So far, in fact, we have a large gap with foreign laboratories, and it is difficult to achieve this goal, but I hope you can overcome it, after all, we still have the advantage of time. ”

"The laboratory is actually a combination of applied and theoretical research, and I am actually in charge of theoretical research with Professor Xu, but because of the nature of my work, I prefer mathematics, and Professor Xu is also pure chemical research. The application of this piece of research will be left to Professor Zhang. ”

"Because of its particularity, people do not know much about quasicrystals, so the early research will be based on theoretical research, and the application can follow up, and the later stage will be mainly based on applied research, but the theoretical research can not be less."

"Based on the above, my idea is that the positioning of our laboratory will be a basic research laboratory, but unlike those pure basic research, we will gradually increase the research of applications."

Xu Jiang and Zhang Yang listened very carefully, and only after Junxin finished speaking, Zhang Yang asked, "What percentage of your investment in application in the early stage?" ”

"In the early stage, the laboratory funding will occupy a part, and the theoretical research will be added to the part of the funding approved by the Department of Mathematics, and the two will add up to more than 75 percent of the total funding, and in the first year, our applied research will occupy about 25 percent, but this proportion will gradually expand, and it is expected that by 1990 or so, the applied research will be on par with the theoretical research funding."

"I don't have a problem with that!"

"Then I have another question, does the school have any hard requirements for our laboratory, such as publishing articles or something?" Professor Xu asked, holding his glasses.

"Well, you don't believe this if you want to say no." Jun Xin smiled bitterly and said, "But the principal is very open-minded, he didn't put forward hard requirements for my laboratory, but although the school didn't have it, our laboratory has its own." ”

"Tell me?"

"Our lab has just been established, and it takes up too many resources from the school. Although, in the case of a Nature article, these resources are completely sufficient. However, it has never been my character to lie on the credit book, so within a year, our three research groups must come up with enough results, and my bottom line is that SCI articles should not be less than four points. ”

"This..."Zhang Yang hesitated a little. It's not that he can't do it, the rise of a new discipline, as long as you grab the time, even if you do applied research, it is possible to produce results, but the problem is that with Junxin's distribution method, the resources occupied by applied research are relatively insufficient, and if you want to post a 4-point article in a short period of time, it may be easy to do it decades later, but China in the 80s is indeed a bit difficult to be strong.

Regarding Professor Zhang Yang's question, Junxin naturally understands that applied research has always been the kind of research that is time-consuming, labor-intensive, and slow-yielding. Taking quasicrystalline research as an example, Shechtman discovered aluminum-manganese alloys in 1982 and published his article in 1984. However, it was five years later in 1989 when French and Japanese scientists made new quasicrystals in the laboratory. This also shows the difficulty of quasicrystalline research.

But for the team led by Junxin, this may be a good thing. Quasicrystals have been rejected by the chemical community since their discovery. Shechtman, who was originally in the research team at Johns Hopkins University, was kicked out of his own research team because of his mainstream ostracism.

But quasicrystalline research is so disruptive that the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, when awarding the 2011 Nobel Prize in Chemistry to the 70-year-old scientist, said: "Nevertheless, his discovery has prompted scientists to rethink their understanding of the structure of solid matter." ”

"I know Professor Zhang's worries, but your task this year is not heavy, and my requirements for you are only that the two of you can work as a team to publish a SCI article above 4.0 by the end of the year, there should be no problem, right?"

Professor Zhang and Professor Xu glanced at each other, this condition was too simple for them, and Professor Xu couldn't help asking: "More than one million dollars a year, just for a 4-point article?" ”

"Naturally not!" Junxin shook his head and said, "If our laboratory wants to become bigger and stronger, how can a 4-point article be enough?" But you don't have to worry about it this year, before the paper came out, I had borrowed Professor Chen's laboratory to do some experimental verification, and completed two papers based on experimental research and the derivation of some experimental phenomena. ”

"Where?"

"A mathematical one is about the functional distribution of quasicrystals, I plan to find a mathematical journal to publish it, and the rest is a chemistry paper, just publish it in JAM!"

At the same time, there was a trace of speechlessness in their hearts...