Chapter 121: Degrees

After putting down the phone, Junxin sighed and shook his head, Professor Cheng was as cautious as ever, and he didn't tell Junxin any useful words, and the content of the keynote speech at the closing ceremony of the conference could only be thought about by himself.

There is no technical content in making a report, even an ordinary undergraduate can talk to a large group of professors for no other reason, but the information he has is not equal. If the undergraduate is in the mathematics department and the professor in the audience is a biology major, then when it comes to mathematical problems, even an undergraduate can give a lecture to those professors.

However, it is not possible for anyone to make a special report on the corresponding theme, especially the theme report of a large international authoritative exchange and cooperation organization. First of all, you are not dealing with a group of people who do not understand or have no expertise in the subject, on the contrary, this group of people knows the same amount of people in the world about these issues. Therefore, without a certain academic ability and network foundation, it is impossible to obtain the qualification of the theme report.

To be honest, Jun Xin is under more pressure in the face of this group of people, you know, the youngest age here is also twice as old as him, it is completely his father or even grandparents, and he wants to face them to make a special report, Jun Xin still feels a little unconfident.

But even if you don't have the confidence, Junxin has to bite the bullet. After returning to the hotel room, Junxin, who had no clue for the time being, turned on the TV and watched some news and programs related to the conference.

Far away on the other side of the ocean in Beijing, China, Professor Cheng of the Department of Chemistry of Mizuki University hung up the phone, his face was excited and excited, he walked back and forth in the office with his hands behind his back, thinking carefully about the information contained in what Junxin said.

"Xiao Zhou, when you go to the principal's office, you will say that I have something important to talk to the principal, and let him spare an hour or so in the morning." After thinking about it, Professor Cheng methodically called the teaching assistant in the office and instructed.

"Okay!"

"In addition, when you inform the principal, you will say that the matter is relatively big and needs the support of all the school executives, and if he asks what the matter is, you will mention it when the meeting is held."

"Well, I'll go!" After Xiao Zhou saw that Professor Cheng had nothing to say, he nodded and left the office.

"Xiao Liu, you go and gather all the teachers and professors of the chemistry department, let them gather in the school conference room later, you find a few more people, and you can bring those graduate students in the laboratory to help."

"Yes, Professor Cheng."

An hour later, when Junxin had turned off the TV and began to bite the pen and start thinking, the conference room of Mizuki University was already full. On the left are all the faculty members of the Department of Chemistry, mainly Prof. Cheng and Prof. Leung. On the right are the administrative, clerical and logistical staff of the school management, led by the two vice principals. As for the middle one, it was the headmaster who had already arrived early.

"Everyone is here, Lao Cheng, tell me what's going on!" Obviously, Professor Cheng's influence is still very great, and after some operation, almost all the people he can think of inviting have put down the work at hand and rushed over. You know, it's time to start busy.

"Okay, I'll just say it." Professor Cheng stood up and said, "This morning I received an ocean call from Junxin from Toronto, and there are two main messages related to our Mizuki University. ”

"First, he told me that a professor at Harvard University, the current president of the International Union of Crystallography, had submitted a proposal that would be held in Beijing for the next IU General Assembly in 1984. Jun said that he would win the opportunity for Mizuki University to hold this time, but he needed the school to provide all the logistics services and venues. ”

"Second, when Professor Watney communicated with him, he proposed to create a branch of the aperiodic crystal academic committee, but Junxin and Professor Watney finally concluded that it would be difficult for this conference to pass this matter, so Junxin hopes to speed up the research of the quasicrystalline project, in order to hope that the proposal to add a non-periodic crystal academic committee will be adopted at the next conference."

As soon as the two things were said, the school logistics administrators on the right were fine, but the professors on the left were very uneasy. "Boom", almost all of them exchanged out of shape.

It wasn't until the exchange was a little quieter that the headmaster asked, "What do you think?" ”

"I've asked Junxin about these two things." Professor Cheng sat down again and replied, "Regarding the first question, it is very likely that it will be passed at present, and it will require the logistical and administrative cooperation of the university at that time. Once every three years, Junxin has won the opportunity for our school to hold it, and I hope that all departments will cooperate. But the key question now is the second thing. ”

"There's too much pressure on Jun's side, isn't it?" Professor Liang asked.

"Yes, he is the first person to study quasicrystals, and the level of research is currently the first person in the world, if this proposal is to be passed, then his pressure will come. You must know that after all, he has just turned eighteen years old, and the youngest of those professors is a little more than twice his age, and his prestige and qualifications are insufficient, and it is difficult to control the scene. So, these three years will be a key point. ”

"Did he say how he wanted us to cooperate?" The headmaster thought for a moment and asked.

"Of the lack of seniority and prestige, seniority is the most troublesome thing, after all, his age is there, and his degree is low. I thought about it for a while, and planned to break the convention, wait until he returned to China, award him a master's degree in chemical crystallography, do research for two years with peace of mind, and wait until the next conference begins, confer him a doctorate, and hire him as an associate professor at the school to make up for his qualifications. ”

"Feasible!" Professor Liang was the first to stand up to Professor Cheng, "In fact, with the gold content of his article in Nature, there is no problem at all in awarding a doctorate, let alone granting a master's degree temporarily." ”

"I don't have a problem either!" Professor Chen, as the professor who discovered Junxin, if the two academicians did not compete with him, then the supervisor of Junxin's master's thesis must be Professor Chen's can't run, and the two academicians and his research direction are not the same, so the final title of mentor must fall on his head.

The other professors saw that the two bigwigs spoke in support, and no one expressed their opposition without opening their eyes, and they passed one after another.

The PhDs of the 80s were not as worthless as later generations, and most of the PhDs who came out of this era were veterans of the laboratories of various research institutes and universities after 30 years. There are also few schools that are qualified to award doctoral degrees. That is, Professor Cheng said this, if other people have this heart, they will not have that courage.