Xiao Ran thought that he would at least have to pay a lot of attention to pull Senior Brother Kong Jiyuan on his thief ship, but he didn't expect that he agreed very simply.

After getting rid of Senior Brother Kong, Xiao Ran found Senior Brother Liu Wenhai non-stop and told him about his establishment of a scientific research team.

Although Xiao Ran was a little disappointed, he could also understand it, after all, Senior Brother Liu and Senior Brother Kong were completely different, Senior Brother Kong belonged to the lowest level of the laboratory, consumables, and Senior Brother Liu was the backbone of the laboratory, the backbone, and the next step was the leader of the project or the head of the research team, the future could be seen at a glance, how could he come out and work alone with him.

A research laboratory is a hierarchical and functional pyramid structure, which is usually composed of the following levels: laboratory director, project leader, research personnel, and research assistants at the bottom.

Taking Lao Tian's laboratory as an example, Lao Tian, as an academician professor of Yan University, is naturally a well-deserved director of the laboratory and an academic leader, located at the top of the pyramid, usually the founder or academic leader of the laboratory, with high academic prestige and influence, responsible for the overall strategic planning, resource allocation and external communication of the laboratory.

Then there are the team leaders like Professor Luo, who are usually the leaders of each research team or research group, who are responsible for specific research projects, manage their researchers, and communicate and coordinate with top leaders.

Researchers at this level are the backbone of the laboratory, responsible for specific experimental design, data analysis, and paper writing.

Finally, there are the lowest-level scientific research assistants like Senior Brother Kong Jiyuan.

In the pyramid of scientific research, everyone is trying to climb upward, seeking better opportunities and greater development space, Senior Brother Liu is currently doing a good job in the laboratory of Laotian, and in a few years there will be a chance to go further and become the leader of the laboratory, how can he give up the existing stable prospects and join Xiao Ran, a laboratory that has just started and lacks resources.

However, Senior Brother Liu did not completely refuse Xiao Ran's request, and he promised to help train his team when he had time.

Senior Brother Liu is a very capable person, and with his guidance, his laboratory can at least take a lot of detours in the early stage.

This is not a surprise for Xiao Ran.

After saying goodbye to Senior Brother Liu, Xiao Ran immediately ran to see Director Tian again, after all, he dug the corner of Lao Tian quietly, and he should have said something to Lao Tian in both a matter of affection and reason.

Entering Lao Tian's office, Director Tian smiled and motioned for him to sit casually, and then joked with a smile: "How does it feel to have your own laboratory in your freshman year?" ”

"It's not bad, but it's a little bit more expensive." Xiao Ran said honestly.

Hearing this, Lao Tian was immediately overjoyed, "Who made you ask for your own hardships and suddenly wanted to build a laboratory by yourself, you are so good at building a laboratory?" ”

glanced at Xiao Ran playfully, said Lao Tian leaned on the office chair, unscrewed the thermos cup and took a sip of water, and asked, "What is the matter with you coming to me this time?" ”

Xiao Ran sat on the sofa opposite Lao Tian, "I came to you for Senior Brother Kong's business."

"Jiyuan?" Lao Tian was stunned for a moment, and then frowned: "What trouble did he get into?" ”

Xiao Ran Khan: "Senior brother, he didn't get into trouble. I'm here to tell you that I've invited Brother Kong to join my lab. ”

Lao Tian's brows suddenly soothed after hearing this, "Hey, what should I do, Ji Yuan is willing to go to Ling's laboratory to help, let him go." As he spoke, he took a sip of tea and asked in a casual tone, "What have you been studying lately?" Is there something new to come up with? ”

Seeing that Lao Tian didn't take it seriously, Xiao Ran also relaxed, and hurriedly took out a paper and project application from his backpack and pushed it in front of Lao Tian, and said with a smile: "This is a paper I am writing recently, which is about organic solar cells, and there is also a funding application, hoping to get some financial support from the school." ”

Xiao Ran's answer caught Lao Tian off guard, and he couldn't help frowning and asking. "How did you start working on chemical energy?"

The tone was a little angry.

In Lao Tian's view, Xiao Ran's talent is obviously in mathematics, he is only in his twenties now, he is in the young adult period of his life, the development and function of the brain are at their peak, people at this age are usually quick thinking, strong memory, can process complex information more efficiently and carry out innovative thinking.

It was the golden age of scholars to produce academic results, and there are too many academic giants in history who have achieved brilliant achievements during this period, Einstein published four important papers at the age of twenty-six, including the special theory of relativity, Bohr proposed his atomic model in his twenties, and Galois founded group theory in his twenties, which is the cornerstone of modern abstract algebra.

Taking advantage of this golden period, Xiao Ran didn't want to continue to work on mathematics, so he actually went to study chemical energy!

Isn't that nonsense!

Lao Tian put the thermos cup on the table, and his tone was rarely serious, and it could even be said to be harsh.

He said, "Xiao Ran, what do you think? Now that you're in the prime of your academic career, you should focus on what you do best, mathematics.

Instead of wasting time on what to study organic solar cells! ”

Xiao Ran was a little stunned by Lao Tian's tone, he didn't expect Lao Tian to have such a big reaction to his research direction.

"But teacher, didn't I build a laboratory just for scientific research, otherwise why would I spend so much money to build it?"

Director Tian was slightly stunned, and after thinking about it carefully, there seemed to be nothing wrong with this.

However, he was still a little unhappy, sighed, and said earnestly: "Xiao Ran, I understand your thoughts, however, scientific research is not a simple thing, it requires long-term investment and concentration, you are now in a critical period of your academic career, you should seize the opportunity, focus on what you are best at, and strive to make greater breakthroughs in this field." ”

Xiao Ran's eyebrows jumped, and his heart said that my math skills are all Lv5, how can I break through?

He also wants to break through, but he needs 10 million reputation points, where can he find so many reputation points!

Lao Tian, you're embarrassing me!

Of course, if you think so, you can't say that.

Xiao Ran coughed dryly and said with a smile: "Teacher, I understand what you mean, however, I don't think that researching organic solar cells is a waste of time, on the contrary, I think this is a field with great potential and application value, and I hope to make some contributions in this field to promote the development of science and technology." ”

He paused for a moment and continued, "Of course, I'm not going to give up on math either. In fact, I plan to apply mathematical methods to the study of organic solar cells in the hope of achieving some breakthrough results. I believe that mathematics, as a universal tool, can provide strong support for my research in this field. ”

"Forget it, don't talk about this, you can understand it yourself." Director Tian sighed, shook his head, and then put the thermos cup on the desk: "That's okay, so be it." ”

Xiao Ran estimated that Lao Tian was a little unhappy with his choices and ideas in his heart.

But there's nothing he can do, he can't let his buddies not use it!

Forget it, after the organic solar cells come out, just find a conjecture to prove it, and let him coax Lao Tian to play, so that he can also know that he is not doing his job.

"Teacher, then I'll go first!"

After Xiao Ran said hello, he left Lao Tian's office.

After Xiao Ran walked away, Lao Tian realized that Xiao Ran's thesis and funding application were still on his desk.

"I'd like to see what you think of so-called organic solar cells!" Lao Tian picked up Xiao Ran's paper with some annoyance and read it.

glanced at it, and suddenly, Lao Tian, who was furious, suddenly let out a sigh, a little uncertain.

raised his head to look in the direction where Xiao Ran had gone, and looked down again after a moment.

This time, instead of a casual glance just now, I took a closer look.

It took about thirty or forty minutes for Director Tian to read Xiao Ran's paper.

He got up and made himself a cup of strong tea, sat back in his chair, sipped his tea, and muttered in his heart: How can this Xiao Ran's talent in chemical energy seem to be quite outrageous?

Thinking about it, I finished drinking a cup of strong tea.

Director Tian got up again to refill the water, and by the way, he found Xiao Ran's funding application.

After hesitating for a moment, Director Tian sandwiched the application and Xiao Ran's paper together and put them in his briefcase.

Two days later, the meeting of the project application committee of Yanda was held as scheduled.

As the top 2 universities in China, Yanda and Huaqing continue to occupy the first and second positions in the national education and scientific research funding.

In this year's financial allocation, Yanda and Huaqing are also the only two universities with more than 5 billion grants, and the remaining universities are only hovering between 3 billion and 4 billion at most.

However, although Yanda Huaqing occupies the largest share of education and research funding every year, the pressure on the allocation of resources within the university is also huge, and the school's own funding is often unable to meet the needs of many scientific research projects.

Who thinks they have little funding for their research?

Therefore, the allocation of funds to Yanda has always been a war without gunpowder, which has also led to the formation of a set of unwritten unspoken rules in the allocation of funds by Yanda.

First of all, Yan University's research projects can be roughly divided into two categories: one is the key support of large projects, which are usually led by the university's top professors or teams, and the research direction is closely related to the long-term planning of the university, and has high academic value and potential application prospects.

For such projects, schools usually give maximum financial support to ensure that they can move forward smoothly and bring greater reputation and benefits to the school.

On the other hand, there are many small projects applied by ordinary teachers and students, and due to limited funding, these small projects often need to go through more rigorous screening and evaluation when applying for funding.

In this process, the innovativeness and practicality of the project, as well as the applicant's academic background and research ability, will be important considerations, but there are also some unknown "pluses".

For example, if an applicant is able to establish a good relationship with a leader or professor at the university, their project may receive more attention and care during the review, and this network is deeply ingrained within Yan University, and many people will spend time and effort to build such a network before applying for funding.

In addition, there are projects that are not brilliant in their own right, but are funded because they are related to certain hot areas or topics, in which case the name and description of the project are often deliberately packaged as highly relevant to the hot field in order to attract the attention of the reviewers.

"Let's get started." The chairman of the meeting, Qiu Lao, glanced at the watch on his wrist and announced the start of the meeting on time.

With the crisp voice of the note-taker, one application project after another was quickly reviewed, and the professors either raised their hands in agreement or ignored it, and everything was proceeding in an orderly manner.

Director Tian half-squinted his eyes, he sometimes raised his hand in agreement, and sometimes took a sip of tea from a teacup, looking leisurely and complacent.

Finally, near the end of the meeting, the clerk's voice suddenly screamed, and after two seconds, he hesitated to say: "The next applicant is Xiao Ran, a first-year student in the Department of Mathematics, who applied for experiments related to organic solar cells, and the application fund is 500,000 yuan." ”

Although Xiao Ran's name and papers had been distributed to each professor in advance, not many people actually read them carefully, and at this moment, hearing the name of this first-year student, many people showed a look of surprise.

"Raise your hand if you agree." Chairman Qiu Lao said succinctly.

Director Tian looked around at the professors at the conference table, and then raised his hand without hesitation.

At the same time, he raised his hand.

Yang Deyi, another deputy director of the Department of Mathematics, couldn't help frowning slightly when he saw this, he and Director Tian are both deputy directors of the School of Mathematics, and they have not had a good relationship all along.

Xiao Ran's name, he has heard a lot recently, is a rare mathematical genius.

It's a pity, I heard that this Xiao Ran and Lao Tian are relatively close.

Thinking of this, Yang Deyi quietly gave a look to a young professor beside him, and the young professor understood, immediately stood up, and objected: "Chairman, I don't think we should agree to this appropriation.

In fact, my team already has a project on organic solar cells, which is currently being tackled and is making good progress, and I don't think we should agree to this funding allocation in order to avoid wasting money and duplicating research. ”

Director Tian frowned when he heard this, he didn't expect that someone would jump out to oppose Xiao Ran's application at this time.

He glanced at Yang Deyi, and knew in his heart that this was the other party deliberately finding fault, frowning, he coughed lightly, and a professor also stood up.

"Professor Du, there is some truth in what you said, but I don't completely agree with it, scientific research needs to be constantly tried and innovated, and young people's innovative spirit should not be stifled for fear of wasting funds.

Moreover, judging from Xiao Ran's paper, he has unique insights and ideas on organic solar cells, and his research direction and methods are not the same as those in your lab, so I think we should give young people a chance. ”

As soon as the professor's words fell, the conference room sounded as if the horn of a charge sounded, and as soon as he sat down, someone refuted his words, and then someone spoke to refute what the previous person said.

The entire conference room suddenly became a mess.

"Enough!" Qiu Lao spoke, and everyone suddenly fell silent.

After saying this, Qiu Lao paused, as if he was considering whether a bowl of water was flat or biased to one side, and at this moment, he seemed to feel that the name Xiao Ran sounded a little familiar.

After thinking for a moment, Qiu Lao suddenly asked the recorder next to him: "This is Xiao Ran, who is the student who proved Kratz's conjecture?" ”

"That's right, Dean!"

"It turned out to be him!" A smile tugged at the corner of Qiu Lao's mouth, and then he said conclusively: "For young people, there must always be more tolerance, but 500,000 is indeed more, give him 200,000." ”

(End of chapter)