Chapter 298: Columbia's Gathering
"Mr. Wu is early!" Yesterday, I received an invitation from Wu Dayou, and Wu Chien-shiung came to Wu Dayou's residence early in the morning, in fact, the place where she lived was not too far from here.
"Haha, Kenxiong, you're early!" Wu Dayou, who was sitting on the sofa, saw Wu Jianxiong who was brought in by the servant and said happily.
"Sir, do you have any distinguished guests coming today?"
"Haha, nothing, it's just that it's rare for everyone to get together, and it's still so together, just take the opportunity to get together and talk!" Professor Wu Dayou doesn't leak any words.
"Haven't Mr. Yang and Mr. Li fallen out yet? Isn't it a bit bad to call them together? Wu Chien-shiung said with a worried face. There have long been rumors in the physics community that Yang Chenning and Lee Tsung-dao fell out because of their papers and discoveries, and although they won the Nobel Prize in physics at the same time, they almost had a sense of old and dead life.
As a mutual academic friend of the two, Wu Chien-shiung knows a lot about this, but he is unwilling to get involved, and this kind of thing is useless. Both of them are stubborn temperaments, and neither of them wants to admit defeat like this, and they both think that they have been violated. It's better to let them solve their own affairs.
"Don't worry, I'm not here to mediate the conflict today, but to do an academic discussion with them, and by the way, introduce a child to everyone to get to know each other!" Wu Dayou revealed his tone slightly.
"Oh, which kid got into your eyes?" Wu Chien-shiung didn't want to go deeper on this issue, so he naturally changed the topic and asked.
"You'll know when he arrives!" Wu Dayou smiled and sold Guanzi.
Although Wu Chien-shiung was very curious about the identity of this person, he still didn't ask in the end. Anyway, I'll be able to see it later, so I won't be in a hurry like this.
Then the two began to talk about each other. After a while, Professor Lee Tsung-dao arrived here. Then Yang Zhenning also came here. The atmosphere was a little awkward when the two met, but it didn't last long. Professor Ding Zhaozhong, who won the Nobel Prize and presided over physics experiments, was a very easy-going person, and his arrival alleviated the awkward atmosphere.
At about half past seven, Steven Chu and Gao Kun came here together. One of these two people is a senior researcher at Bell Labs, and the other is a senior employee of ITT, both engineers and other people, and the two have a lot to talk about.
At around 7:50, Cui Qi came to Professor Wu Dayou's house alone. His face was a little serious, a little different from what he usually looked. Historically, this year has been an extremely important one for him, as he began experiments with electron quantum fluids, laying the groundwork for winning the Nobel Prize in Physics 16 years later.
"Sir, now you ought to tell us who's coming today, right?" After seeing that all the Chinese scientists at Columbia University had come recently, Wu Chien-shiung asked again.
"Hey, teacher, did you invite someone today?" Yang Zhenning asked suspiciously, he is now a professor at New York University at Stony Brook, not far from here, so he came here.
"I didn't invite it, but this little guy took the initiative to come and visit, and the request delivered yesterday said that he would come to visit today. I thought that we hadn't been together like this for a long time, so I agreed by the way, and I just happened to introduce you to you! Wu Dayou explained with a smile.
"Oh? Who is he? Ding Zhaozhong asked curiously when he heard this. He didn't pretend to be high-profile, but this room full of top physicists, and even Li Yizhe didn't come, obviously it was a big gathering of physicists, and if ordinary people came to visit, it was impossible to join them, because they couldn't understand it, and how could they communicate together. It can be seen that the person who came must be a young colleague.
"Cui Qi should know him, after all, he is also your alumnus!" Wu Dayou glanced at Cui Qi with a smile and said. At this time, he was a professor of electrical engineering at Princeton University.
"Augusta College or the University of Chicago?" Cui Qi asked suspiciously. It seems that the current University of Chicago and Augusta College have not produced any powerful young people.
"It's Princeton University!"
"Princeton? You're talking about that little guy in Junxin, right? Cui Qi understood. Although he only joined Princeton University this year, he met Junxin once at the induction ceremony, and the two had an in-depth exchange, so they naturally got to know him well. "Isn't he defending his PhD dissertation recently? How did you come to New York? ”
"It's him!" Professor Yang Zhenning suddenly said that if it was Junxin, it would have passed. After all, the superstring theory, the most popular grand unification theory in physics today, is his masterpiece. Because it is designed to be related to his own major, Yang Zhenning still pays high attention to Junxin's thesis.
"I remember he was an undergraduate at Princeton, right? Aren't exchange students generally undergraduates? Wu Jianxiong also obviously knows something about Junxin, but she met Gu Yuxiu and Gu Lao.
"He has made great achievements in mathematics, and some of the most important achievements are world-class, and it is impossible for Princeton to turn a blind eye to such achievements, so he arranged for him to defend his doctoral dissertation on an improvised basis, which is no different from directly awarding him a doctorate in mathematics!" Cui Qi explained with a smile, "But in the end, he gave the results of his recent research, the breakthrough in Langlands' program attracted the attention of the academic community, and finally his doctoral dissertation defense was on an unprecedented scale, so it stands to reason that he should still be in Princeton, how did he come to Columbia?" ”
"I guess I want to relax in New York!" Wu Chien-shiung said with a smile.
"Hehe, I didn't expect that I haven't been back for so long, it's really surprising that our country has produced such a top talent!" Lee Tsung-dao couldn't help but say. A few years ago, he returned to China, and at that time he questioned Premier Zhou about China's education and talent problems, and he could not have imagined that a few years later, he was deeply disappointed that such a genius had been cultivated in education.
"I heard Professor Ramos from the Department of Mathematics of our university say that if this year's Fields Medal can break through international restrictions, then Junxin will definitely win a Fields Medal medal." Cui Qi added. In fact, when comparing the Nobel Prize with the Fields Medal, although the former has a greater influence, everyone in the industry knows that I am afraid that the person who wins the Fields Medal is higher in pure academics. Because the Fields Medal takes four years to select a maximum of four people. There are fewer than one reviews a year, which leads to the fact that the people who can win the Fields Medal are among the top.
"Sir, Mr. Junxin is here!" Just as the crowd was chatting, the servant came in and said.
"Let him in!"