Public opinion is still slowly fermenting.

In the era of the Internet, when an event attracts the attention of public opinion, more people will join the discussion, and public opinion will continue to ferment.

The participation of the media and the participation of online media people will bring more analysis and reporting, which will also make more people pay attention to it and make public opinion hotter.

As the center of public opinion, Donggang University is also under tremendous pressure.

Donggang University is one of the top universities in China, and has a certain influence in the world, and the school itself is very topical.

An important reason is that Wang Hao's achievements are too big.

In other words, if an ordinary faculty member is dismissed by a university, most people know and ignore it at all, Donggang University has more than 5,000 faculty members, and an ordinary faculty member is really 'small', because being dismissed by the university because of something is really just a trivial matter.

Wang Hao is different.

The research of 'Atin constant' is considered to be the top mathematical achievement, and he himself is also considered to be the 'star of mathematics' in China, and the future 'Fields winner', and the newly completed research on Mersenne primes, which has found several Mersenne primes in a row, has been continuously reported by the international media, and has a greater influence than the research of 'Atin constant'.

The media at home and abroad have begun to use the 'Wang's conjecture' to describe the results of his research on Mersenne primes, and the International Mathematical Society is waiting for the official announcement of the results.

This made Donggang University, which fired Wang Hao, seem to have become a laughing stock in the university circle, and they even dismissed a promising genius mathematician because of an error in experimental data that was 'not investigated in detail'.

Regardless of whether the data error is Wang Hao's fault or not, it will have a negative impact on Donggang University.

What's more, public opinion generally believes that there must be a problem in it, otherwise why would the problem be attributed to an assistant researcher who has just entered the laboratory for three months without a detailed investigation?

Assistant researcher, to put it bluntly, is an intern, a problem in a project, it is attributed to the intern?

There must be a problem!

Under the tremendous pressure of public opinion, the leadership of Donggang University organized an internal meeting in the Academic Affairs Building the next morning.

Among them, the highest position is Dong Jin, vice president of Donggang University, who is the vice president with the highest real power in the university, and also serves as a member of the city.

As the real vice president of Donggang University, Dong Jin does not know much about the matter itself, and the problems in the materials laboratory can be said to be internal research and development problems, and they are not involved in anything else, and it is impossible for him to notice the dismissal of a small lecturer in the school.

Now it's different.

This small lecturer has achieved various achievements, has a great academic reputation, has a certain influence in the world, and has also brought huge public opinion pressure to Donggang University.

Dong Jin knew that he had to come forward, otherwise the reputation of the school would definitely be greatly affected.

This was a meeting about the laboratory incident, and the main persons in charge of the materials laboratory, Chen Jianlin and Ma Wenjun, were all called over, and only Zhou Xiaolong did not come to participate because he was absent from leave.

Because it's an internal event-specific meeting, there aren't so many cumbersome beginnings.

When the others were almost here, Dong Jin asked Chen Jianlin directly, "Professor Chen, tell me, what is the specific situation of this matter?" Until now, all I know about what is said on the Internet. ”

The others all looked at Chen Jianlin.

Chen Jianlin stood up with solemnity and said solemnly, "We have also noticed the public opinion outside. But there was nothing wrong with the thing, I led the research, and then I found the initial experimental data errors. ”

"There are two main people in charge of data work on this project, one is Professor Ma Wenjun, and the other is Wang Hao."

"It's Professor Wang Hao." The Director of the Communications Section reminded me.

Now it is an internal meeting, but if it is rumored that Donggang University does not respect Wang Hao, it may cause new public opinion problems.

"I'm sorry, it's Professor Wang Hao."

Chen Jianlin also corrected his title and continued, "On this project, Wang Hao is in charge of the calculation work, Professor Ma Wenjun is in charge of data analysis, our internal investigation, synthesizing the initial experimental data, found that there was an error in the data submitted for analysis, and it was not a mistake, it was a series of calculation errors, and it was because of this that the matter would ferment and be reported in the media." ”

"I remember that at that time, the school was also forced to dismiss Professor Wang Hao."

Huang Yichun, the director of academic affairs, nodded, "There is a problem with this matter, the data error is very serious, and it has been reported in the media, so we held a meeting and decided to dismiss Professor Wang Hao." ”

Dong Jin looked at Ma Wenjun, "Professor Ma, you can talk about it." ”

Ma Wenjun stood up and said, "That's right." I'm in the materials lab, and I'm mainly responsible for data analysis, which is more about data mining to draw conclusions to guide the experiment forward, and I need to work on the data that is submitted. ”

"If there is a problem with the submitted data, then my work will not be meaningless at all."

"Three months, a lot of energy, when I said that the data was wrong, I was also very uncomfortable......

Ma Wenjun made a simple statement.

After Chen Jianlin's explanation, the matter has nothing to do with him, and he needs to express the frustration of a 'normal experimental participant' about the error of the experimental data.

Next, several people who participated in the decision to dismiss Wang Hao at the meeting talked about the situation at that time.

Dong Jin synthesized all the contents, considered it comprehensively and made a decision, "Since this is the case, let's investigate." ”

"We will find funders, and then invite experts from other schools to set up an investigation team for the incident, and you must fully cooperate with the laboratory, and others must also cooperate with the investigation. In this way, it can also give an account to public opinion. ”

"There's no problem with the lab."

"There is no problem on the academic affairs side, we all make decisions based on the situation."

Others have taken a stand.

After the meeting, a group of people came out of the teaching building, and they happened to meet Pan Weiguo by the flower bed.

Pan Weiguo glanced at the crowd, and immediately noticed Huang Yichun, and subconsciously said, "Huang Yichun? ”

"Whew!"

He pointed at Huang Yichun's nose and scolded, "The sinner of Donggang, the villain who looks like a dog!" ”

This sentence of pointing at the nose made several people next to him stunned, how much hatred and hatred does a professor in a university have to point at the nose of an academic director and scold?

After Pan Weiguo finished scolding, he noticed Dong Jin who was walking in front, and he was a little panicked, and immediately explained, "Principal Dong, I just don't like him, and he decided to expel Wang Hao." ”

Dong Jin has a good temper, he will not deal with a professor, not to mention, the other party is scolding other people, he reassured, "Regarding this matter, we have discussed it just now, and we will give an explanation to other faculty members of the school and the society." ”

"Okay, Principal Dong, I believe you!" Pan Weiguo glanced at Huang Yichun hatefully again, and then left quickly with his bag.

Huang Yichun's face turned black when he was scolded, and he felt that he had lost a big face.

Dong Jin asked, "Who was that person just now?" ”

A director of the propaganda department said, "I know Professor Pan Weiguo, who studies mathematics, has a smelly and hard temper, and he was Professor Wang Hao's mentor during his doctoral studies. ”

Dong Jin nodded knowingly, turned to Huang Yichun, and asked, "Why did he scold you?" ”

Huang Yichun pursed his lips for a long time before saying, "At that time...... It was I who announced the expulsion of Wang Hao. ”

Dong Jin didn't say anything after hearing this, but turned around and muttered, "The sinner of Donggang? Sinners ......"

He shook his head as he spoke, feeling that the description was apt.

If you decide to fire an ordinary faculty member, it is a trivial matter, but the situation is different when the dismissed faculty member quickly achieves results in the field of research and is noticed by the whole world, and the future can be said to be limitless.

If he can really get Fields in the future, he will become the first Fields person in China, and he will definitely gain great prestige and influence.

Eastport University could have a future Fields winner, but it was expelled from the school's management students.

In the future, when the other party achieves other achievements and wins heavyweight awards, Donggang University will definitely be turned out and continue to laugh at it, right?

This will become a stain on Donggang University, a laughing stock to be mocked!

Sinners in East Harbor?

That's not an exaggeration!

Huang Yichun noticed Dong Jin's reaction, and knew that he must have left a very bad impression in the heart of the vice principal, and his political and political future is really difficult to say.

However, he is more worried about another thing.

In the matter of the material laboratory, it is good that the problem cannot be found, but if it is found to have nothing to do with Wang Hao, he will definitely be implicated.

It's like a point of view on the Internet, the leadership of a department has made a wrong decision, which has brought losses to the department or the country, and should also bear a certain responsibility.

Under the pressure of boiling public opinion, he is likely to be disciplined, suspended, or even demoted for this?

Or, early retirement?

Now I can only pray that the materials laboratory can't find any problems.

……

Soon.

Donggang University issued an official announcement, announcing the formation of an expert team to investigate the 'super compressive alloy material' project in response to Wang Hao's response to the telephone interview.

The investigation team is composed of three external experts and personnel sent by the funding department, and the results of the investigation will be announced as soon as possible.

As soon as this announcement came out, public opinion calmed down a little.

A lot of people are starting to wait for the results of the survey.

Wang Hao also noticed the announcement of Donggang University, which is related to his reputation, and he also looks forward to what conclusions the investigation will draw, but thinking of the treacherous and cunning Ma Wenjun, he still feels that it is unlikely that anything will be really investigated.

It's been nearly 10 months, and it's been a year since the so-called 'data went wrong'.

For such a long period of time, there will be no problem if there is a problem.

He didn't think much about it at all, but focused on his own business--

Negotiation!

Specifically, he watched Su Yingxue negotiate with the penguin's representatives from afar, while he sat with Zhu Zhen, the penguin's manager, drinking coffee and chatting a few words and waiting for the result.

Su Yingxue was arguing with the penguin representative, "You also know the meaning of this number. It is capable of calculating the largest prime number in human history, more than 100 million prime numbers, and you should know very well what that means. ”

"When the time comes, the media around the world will report on it, how much is this propaganda worth?"

"Moreover, this is an honor that will go down in history, if you are not sincere, we can cooperate with Abayun, I believe they will definitely be interested."

"It's clear to everyone that Penguin needs ...... more than Abayun"

Zhu Zhen and Wang Hao were sitting in the hall more than twenty meters away, and they could clearly hear Su Yingxue's sonorous and powerful voice.

Zhu Zhen smiled bitterly, "I thought he was a little girl at first, but I didn't expect it." Professor Wang Hao, you really found a master negotiator. ”

"I'm fighting for my own legitimate interests." Wang Hao said with a smile, "Cooperation is a win-win situation, you can't say that you always take advantage and let me suffer, right?" ”

"That's for sure. We hope to cooperate more in the future. Zhu Zhen nodded.

Soon the negotiations were over.

In fact, it was just a matter of selling a number, Su Yingxue and the representatives of the other party argued with reason, laid out facts and reasoned, and finally finalized a total of 18 million cooperation fees.

Wang Hao handed over the numbers to the Penguin Group, and the Penguin Computing Center will verify the largest Mersenne prime in human history and the first prime number exceeding 100 million digits according to the numbers.

The Penguin Group paid 8 million for this to be owned by Wang Hao personally.

In addition, an additional $10 million will be added to the Mason Mathematics Science Laboratory after one year.

Penguin Group is definitely more inclined to sponsor the laboratory, because the sponsoring laboratory has the name of sponsorship, which can also be regarded as scientific research investment, and it is worth spending some extra money.

If it is to give money to Wang Hao personally, it is purely to pay for it.

Therefore, for the latter one, they agreed without much thought at all, and being able to continue to sponsor the Mason Digital Science Laboratory also means that they can continue to cooperate with Wang Hao in research and development in the future.

They have already tasted the sweetness of cooperation, and each of the scientific and technological achievements is related to the Penguin Group, and they can feel that they have invested a lot in scientific research support.

This 'reputation' is very important for big business.

After everything was negotiated, Zhu Zhen didn't stay to eat, so he left with a USB flash drive.

There is only one encrypted number in the USB flash drive, even if it is lost, it doesn't matter, Wang Hao can dictate it directly.

The USB flash drive is just a symbol of cooperation.

……

Talking about a 10-million-level cooperation is definitely something worth celebrating.

That night, Wang Hao and Su Yingxue had a big dinner to celebrate, they went to the most luxurious hotel in Xihai, ordered a few expensive dishes, and opened a bottle of red wine for thousands of yuan.

Wang Hao picked up his wine glass and pointed to Su Yingxuedao, "Manager Su, thank you so much today, if I come by myself, it is normal to ask for two or three million less." ”

"At that time, I thought about talking about cooperation with penguins, and the first thing that came to mind was you, thank you so much, I toast you!"

Su Yingxue blinked her eyes wide, and a smile appeared at the corner of her mouth, "Teacher Wang Hao, you are too polite, we have known each other for a long time, we can always be called 'friends', right?" In the future, I may have something to ask you for help with. ”

Wang Hao smiled, "Don't call me teacher, just call me by my name, it sounds weird." ”

"You're welcome. When you call me, you call me by name, right? ”

Su Yingxue also picked up her wine glass as she spoke, "Cheers to our friendship!" ”

"Cheers!"

The young men and women went to the hotel to have a big meal together, laughing and talking, very dating, but another person appeared at the door, which quickly ruined the atmosphere completely.

It's Xia Guobin.

When Xia Guobin walked in, he found that there were only Wang Hao and Su Yingxue, and the two were still talking and drinking red wine, and they almost turned their heads and walked away.

When he was beckoned in, he couldn't help but smile bitterly, "You two young people eat together, and what are you calling me a bad old man." ”

Su Yingxue glanced at Wang Hao, her face turned slightly red, but she quickly returned to normal and regained her generous temperament.

Wang Hao was very indifferent, he said, "It doesn't matter if I am, it's Su Jing...... Su Yingxue is going to call you. ”

Su Yingxue nodded and said, "I was thinking, last time in the laboratory, didn't you say that you had something to find Wang Hao, and you were embarrassed to speak?" Taking advantage of this opportunity, I was cheeky to act as a middleman. ”

Wang Hao was also puzzled when he heard this.

Xia Guobin is familiar with him, it's good to find something directly, why are you embarrassed to speak?

Could it be...... Borrow money?

Wang Hao thought about it and subconsciously clenched his fists, thinking that the other party would borrow tens of thousands of yuan, and if he borrowed it, he would borrow it, if it was tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands, what reason should he use to refuse?

"Manager Su, thank you so much."

Xia Guobin nodded towards Su Yingxue, sat down and hesitated for a moment, and then sighed and said, "Wang Hao, that's the case." I have an old friend who is doing research on metal materials, and he has a big project in his hand, but he has not made progress for a long time, and the main problem is the data. ”

"As you all know, materials science research, to put it bluntly, often depends on luck, maybe a certain element ratio, or an additional process may have results."

"But in many cases, even if you do it scientifically, it is difficult to produce results, and the main problem is that one is the limitation of manufacturing technology, and the other is the problem of experimental data."

"Most of the time, the experimental data is meaningless, and even if it fails this time, it is difficult to say that it has accumulated failure experience, because this failure and the next failure may not even have anything in common."

"He asked me about the microsphere project, and then I talked about you, and he also wanted to ask you to help with data analysis, and the cost was easy to say."

Xia Guobin finished the matter in one breath.

Wang Hao was a little puzzled and said, "It's good to just say no to this kind of thing?" ”

Xia Guobin shook his head with a wry smile, he took out his mobile phone and found a picture, handed it to Wang Hao and said, "Look at it yourself, and you can understand why I can't speak." ”

Wang Hao took the phone suspiciously, and saw that the picture showed a screenshot of the project introduction, and the project name at the top was simply written in seven types--

Super compressive alloy material.

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