"Jun, the time for the dissertation defense is half past one tomorrow afternoon, how about it?" Professor Thurston said with a smile.

"It's ready, and there won't be any problems!" For this, Junxin had already been prepared, so he didn't take it to heart, and said with a relaxed expression, "Am I going to participate in the dissertation defense alone?" ”

"You're alone!" Professor Thurston nodded and replied, "The other graduate students at Princeton, while they are highly academically literate, are generally not academically competent enough to have a large group of top mathematicians serve as members of their dissertation defense committee. ”

Junxin nodded, although what Professor Thurston said was a little contemptuous of other graduates, but this is also human nature. It is unlikely that all graduate students will have the same knowledge base as he did, and be able to write something that will impress most of the world's mathematicians. To put it bluntly, it's as if all the students who can get into Princeton University's mathematics department are geniuses, but those geniuses haven't reached the point where they can immediately produce world-class results. They also lack the necessary foundations.

"Okay, has the booklet of the paper been sent?" Junxin didn't continue to dwell on this issue and continued to ask.

"Naturally, although your paper has a lot of pages, after removing some other things, the real body part is actually only more than 120 pages, although these are a lot, and although the time is also very rushed, but the time to copy these papers is enough. The papers have been sent to the professors. ”

"Okay, it looks like I'm going to recharge my batteries too, so I'll go back and rest first, and I'll go to the venue by myself tomorrow." Everything else had been arranged, and Junxin no longer had to worry about the trivial matters in the next arrangement, and stretched out and said to Professor Thurston.

"Tomorrow afternoon, at half past one, don't forget to go to the first lecture hall of the Department of Mathematics, which is the place where this special thesis defense ceremony will be held."

"This is something that has been said for a long time, and I will naturally not forget it." Junxin nodded, said hello to Professor Thurston, and walked outside. At the welcome party in the following evening, Junxin only needs to show up, and he doesn't need to go to great lengths to communicate and discuss everywhere as before, which is a rare opportunity to relax.

Princeton's university is not very large, because it does not have a large number of people, and a school of no more than 10,000 people can only be considered a pocket-sized university anywhere. However, Princeton's area is not small, although it is not as good as the world's famous universities, but it is far more than some comprehensive universities, so every important department and college of Princeton University is very well established.

Take Princeton's mathematics department as an example, mathematics is the least number of students in any university in the world, because mathematics is extremely high-end calculations and extremely sophisticated skills, not everyone can become mathematicians, and even among those mathematicians, there are only a very small number of people who can achieve achievements. Generally speaking, becoming a top mathematician often depends not on hard work, but on talent.

Therefore, there are very few people in the mathematics department, and generally speaking, the mathematics department of the university is often a more miserable department. But Princeton is completely different from other schools in that they place a strong emphasis on the mathematics department, and even the school's oldest building, Nass Hall, once housed the offices of the school's mathematics department.

Although the development of mathematics in the United States started late, the Department of Mathematics at Princeton University was definitely one of the first universities in the United States to start working on mathematics. That's why Princeton has become one of the two centers of mathematics in the world with the back of the Princeton Institute for Advanced Study.

Because of the small number of students, but the education funds are very large, the various colleges of Princeton University are very perfect, and the Department of Mathematics is even more so, not only has a very complete group of teachers, but also has some extremely complete hardware facilities, and it is not surprising that the auditorium of the Department of Mathematics has such a strange existence.

Of course, Junxin is no stranger to this auditorium, although he has not given a speech or made an academic report in this auditorium so far. But it was in this auditorium that he attended the presentations given by scholars from all over the world at Princeton. Of course, the last time he participated in an academic presentation event, he did it directly in the school auditorium in Princeton, so I don't talk about that.

To be honest, the professors of the school had some opinions about using this auditorium as Junxin's graduation thesis defense, but when they looked at the first draft of Junxin's thesis, all the opinions disappeared.

As the most influential program after the Irish Program and the Hilbert Program (which has not yet reached that extent), the Langlands Program is indeed an important research object in the development process of mathematics, although the position of Langlands in the history of mathematics is not comparable with the Klein of the Irish Program and the Hilbert Program of the Hilbert Program, but the Langlands Program is still remembered because of its rich content and far-reaching foresight, and it is mentioned to the point of being compared with his two predecessors.

Although Princeton University and the Institute for Advanced Study (IAS), the de facto geometry center of the world, have produced a large number of experts in geometry, they are not without geometricians. Therefore, Langlands himself, who put forward the highly regarded Langlands program, was a researcher at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, and can be regarded as Junxin's predecessor.

After the program came out, people thought that it would take at least 30 years to make a preliminary analysis of the contents of the program, but by Junxin, it had only taken five years to make a worldwide achievement of this program, so that they were amazed at the efficient research of Junxin on the one hand, and at the same time, they raised their hands in favor of holding Junxin's graduation thesis defense in the auditorium of the Department of Mathematics, which is still unprecedented in the history of Princeton University.

However, Junxin is not a researcher of Princeton University history, so he has never paid attention to the question that he may have created history. Perhaps in his eyes, the so-called making of history is just to defend his dissertation in a slightly larger place.

With such an indifferent mentality, Junxin rarely didn't think about anything, so he walked along the riverside of the school, quietly savoring this rare calm.