In the southern United States, in Durham, North Carolina, next to Duke University.

It was already ten o'clock at night, and Laurent Lane turned on the computer in the study while his wife was going to put the children to sleep.

In the eyes of many Chinese people, Americans will have a clear separation between life and work, so they will never work overtime, let alone bring work home.

But that's a bit of a stereotype.

In fact, as long as the gap between the rich and the poor is widening in countries and regions, there are definitely people who will be involved. It is nothing more than a question of how much overtime is and whether it is mandatory.

For example, Laurent Lane never minds coming to the study to deal with some work if she can't sleep after spending time with her family at night.

For many, academic journal editing is a decent career, but it can be difficult to maintain it.

Laurent Lane's annual salary fluctuates around $80,000.

But after paying all kinds of hateful taxes and insurance, there are probably only more than $70,000 left.

The year before last, his wife gave birth to another daughter for him, making him a successful man with both children and daughters, but the corresponding price was that his wife quit an administrative job in the school in order to take care of the two children. That's $40,000 a day for a family to lose income for at least the next six to seven years before their daughter goes to school.

His salary is barely enough for a family of four. If you want to live better, you need to perform better.

Then sacrificing thirty minutes to an hour a day to deal with some piled things up is a good option.

At least at this time, I can maintain a relatively smooth communication with some European counterparts.

Although there are fewer hours in Europe, there are always professors who are engaged in academic research who are enthusiastic about their studies and always maintain their diligence.

This is also the reason why Laurent Lane is highly regarded by editor-in-chief Joe Berner.

After all, there are currently seven editors in the editing room, and only Laurent can be so diligent.

……

As usual, Laurent first opened the submission system and reviewed several piled up manuscripts.

Then I sent a message urging the reviewers who had not responded for a long time, and finally opened the public mailbox of the editorial room.

It didn't take long for Laurent to discover something interesting.

There were several more obviously agitated letters in the background, and the title was also very interesting, complaining to the editorial office that the latest article published on the official website was very likely to be suspected of academic misappropriation.

The reasons given did surprise Laurent.

The school revealed that the work of this article, that is, the student named QiaoZe, is just a high-school student who is about to enter college and has not received a day of college education.

A lot of pictures were given as evidence in the annex, and the complainant also thoughtfully translated all the Chinese in those pictures into English.

It is hoped that the Duke Mathematics Journal will temporarily remove this paper from the shelves and confirm that there is no academic encroachment before resuming it.

Well, there is some justification for this questioning.

It is indeed difficult to imagine that a high school student can independently complete a thesis of this level under the guidance of a professor.

But obviously, as an editor of a journal, Laurent certainly can't take the paper off the shelves without more empirical evidence.

But he thought it was interesting.

After hesitating for a moment, Laurent opened WhatsApp and sent a message to editor-in-chief Joe Berner: "Joe, have you slept? ”

Soon received a reply: "Yes, I haven't slept yet, what's the matter?" ”

"Is it convenient to answer the phone now?"

"Of course."

After receiving this last message, Laurent dialed directly.

"Joe, the backend mailbox suddenly received several complaints, all of which said that the newly published paper may involve academic misappropriation. The reason given was that in the first paper, the person named Qiao Qi (transliteration, not a clerical error) was just a student who had just graduated from high school and had not received formal higher education. ”

"Oh? That's interesting, you know? Laurent, just twenty minutes ago, Sumant was still calling me and saying the same interesting thing. ”

"What's the matter? Joe. ”

"This morning, the official website of the Pure and Applied Mathematics Newsletter also published a paper "A Mathematical Architecture for Self supervised 3D Point Cloud Prediction", guess who the first author is?"

"Hmm...... I remember Ackerman of Cohen University working on this topic all along? ”

"Haha, yes, but one of the works on this paper is his student, Corey Durant. Do you remember this young man? ”

"Of course...... Corey...... He was probably the youngest Ph.D. to give a solo presentation at Princeton, and although he only had half an hour left that day, it has to be said that he performed very well that day. He's an impressive lad. ”

With these words, Laurent Lane thought of the meeting room in the neoclassical building made of red brick two years ago, in which Ackerman Cornet, who had just won the Gauss Award, introduced his students to all of them.

A handsome boy with blonde hair who was just nineteen years old.

The face that was full of youth and youthfulness at the same time even made Laurent Lane feel a little jealous.

On top of that, the boy is only 19 years old and can already talk in front of a crowd of editors and mathematicians.

It was so impressive that Laurent Lane even remembered the day the kid was talking about a very large generation subset of a class of abelian groups.

At the end of the final question-and-answer session, when the staff opened the window of the conference room and a ray of sunset was reflected directly on that face, Laurent Lane thought to herself that it was good that his daughter had just been born, otherwise he would have been completely fascinated by the confident and handsome young man on the stage.

"Yes, indeed a promising child, and so handsome, he is more of a movie star than a mathematician! But do you want to know what Sumant just talked to me about? Joe Burner's tone was full of mockery and gossip, and a sense of impatience to share it......

"Of course, I'd love to know." Laurent Lane immediately asked.

Not only to shoot the editor-in-chief's sycophants, but also because he was really hung up with an appetite.

After all, as the editor-in-chief of a mathematics journal, the gossip threshold is still very high, so what the two of them discussed just now should be interesting.

"To put it simply, Sumant suspects that Corey Durant's paper is plagiarizing the one you just mentioned. Of course, not all plagiarism, only a tiny part of it, but you know, Sumant happens to be the reviewer of this paper, and he has reviewed the same manuscript twice, so he is naturally more familiar with it...... He even gave some proof. After the paper was rejected by the Pure Mathematics and Applied Mathematics Letters, Ackerman is likely to be one of the reviewers of this paper...... How is it? Did you find it interesting? ”

Laurent Lane nodded subconsciously.

However, he soon realized that he was on the phone, and the other party could not see his movements, so he added: "Of course, this is too interesting." This is equivalent to two papers being suspected of academic misconduct, one for academic misappropriation and the other for plagiarism. But I'm sure even Professor Sumant can't produce any real evidence, right? ”

"Haha, yes! After all, it's just a small lemma proof. Even if this proof process is very ingenious, and the ideas of the two articles are so consistent, who is to say? It's a pity, it's all old fritters, and if Sumant can come up with more ironclad evidence, the mathematical community will be lively! Believe me, if the Sumant had launched a fight, in order to defend their own students, the Germans would have broken out! Maybe it will turn into the showdown of the century between Berkeley and Cohen, which must be exciting and interesting! ”

Laurent Lane didn't know how to answer this.

What do you say?

As a senior editor-in-chief of a well-known journal, Joe Berner's status in the academic world is not comparable to that of his junior editor.

So the editor-in-chief can happily and explicitly look forward to a showdown of the century between top universities and top mathematicians, but he'd better be honest.

And the young man named Corey Durant made a good impression on him, and he really didn't want Sumant's analysis to be right.

Although in the editor's position over the years, there are not very visible things in the academic aspect, Laurent Lane has seen a lot. But he still felt that the young, sunny child should not be involved in such dirty things.

Not to mention the fact that the foundation-oriented basic mathematical theories have progressed more and more slowly over the years, and the hope lies in the younger generation of mathematicians.

So Laurent Lane subconsciously decided to bring the topic back up.

"So Joe, what do you think should be done with these complaints and inquiries? Should we send an email to the corresponding author to express our concern? ”

"Oh, of course, why not? You know? It's interesting. One high school student, maybe not yet twenty years old, and the other one is also very young, if I remember correctly, he should be 21 years old this year, and they are still working in the same field. Know what I'm sorry for? It would be nice if Corey's paper was also published in our journal, so I could send two emails to both of them to provide corroboration that the paper itself did not involve academic misconduct. It's so much fun! The lifeless academic world needs stories like this to inject a little bit of life, really, I want to see fireworks, what about you? ”

"You're right, Joe...... Even made me look forward to it. But I'd better send an email to the Huaxia people first, hey...... I'll have to figure out how to phrase it, in case the author, who is not yet twenty years old, is also a genius...... Joe, you said that we are not even afraid of offending those old men, but we must not offend the rising stars......"

"Haha, yes! Alright, you go get busy! Keeping your mindset and looking forward to something new happening every day is the best way to stay young. You know? Laurent, your biggest problem is that you're too old! You should learn from me. ”

"Of course, I will!"

Finally hanging up the phone, Laurent Lane sighed.

Anyway, Joe is actually a very good guy, at least good to him, but it's just too bad to laugh.

And it always seems to be looking forward to seeing with your own eyes how things that seem beautiful are destroyed......

Well, you can't complain about your boss.

Putting all the thoughts behind her, Laurent began to carefully phrase the letter of inquiry.

I have to say that Laurent belongs to the kind of good old man who is very gentle, even if it is a question, he does not want the other party to feel aggressive.

He has always believed that milder wording can make the other party more willing to give an explanation of the situation.

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Soon, the email was edited, which basically meant that the author could give some evidence to ensure that the paper was written by himself and would not involve academic encroachment.

Of course, Laurent also knew that it was ridiculous to ask the author to follow the evidence that the paper was written by herself. Therefore, it is also useful to give a useful suggestion, you can fax a text similar to a guarantee, and agree that if the article is suspected of embezzlement, the editorial office will also approve it.

It's not a big deal, everyone just goes through the process.

After doing this, Laurent stretched.

It's time to sleep.

……

Huaxia, Xilin University.

I didn't see it before, so I came to meet it, and as the host, it was naturally impossible to continue to pretend to be deaf and dumb.

At noon, the school arranged a grand reception ceremony.

After all, Yu Hongwei still has this face.

Originally, Chen Yuanzhi and Yu Hongwei both wanted to call Qiao Ze to have this meal together, but fortunately, several teachers who were familiar with Qiao Ze were there, and Li Jiangao made a phone call, and after confirming that Qiao Ze didn't want to come to the banquet, he directly helped Qiao Ze decline the invitation.

Not necessarily, not really.

Qiao Ze must come to eat this meal, it will only make everyone feel uncomfortable.

That guy always has a way to convey his unhappy emotions to everyone around him quietly. Make everyone less happy.

Facts have also proved that everyone chatted much more happily than Qiao Ze's dinner.

It's just that after saying goodbye, after taking a few steps, Chen Yuanzhi's face turned cold, like an ice cube.

"Xu Dajiang, Yang Lichun, I don't care what kind of bad ideas the two of you are playing, hurry up and solve this matter for me, and quickly take it out if you have any backhand. Especially you, Xu Dajiang, Xu Dajiang, you really impress me! You also heard Su Lixing's words just now, right? People don't want their daughters to be exposed too much! Besides, you didn't think about what Li Jiangao thought when you did this? What did José think? ”

"Headmaster, the solution is obvious. If there are doubts, we will just calm them. On behalf of the School of Mathematics, I accept any investigation from the school and the higher authorities. It starts with me, if there is a problem, what to do and how to deal with it. As for Jiangao and Qiao Ze, I will apologize. But one thing, now we can be regarded as leaders in the School of Mathematics, right? If it is still according to the development model of the previous marginal faculties, I am afraid it is too unfair, right? ”

"Ahem, Lao Xu, you don't have to say a few words first. That one...... Principal, our Propaganda Department will take action immediately and will do our best to minimize the impact! ”