The day before Qin Ke's birthday is Wednesday, which means tomorrow, the 24th, is Thursday, a normal school day.

This period has also entered the final review stage, and many subjects have begun to focus on, especially in the first semester of their sophomore year. Qin Ke and Ning Qingyun have taken many liberal arts courses, including business management, securities investment,

Intellectual property law, scientific and technological development and human civilization, psychology, appreciation of Chinese studies, etc.

These courses have a lot of content to memorize. For Qin Ke and Ning Qingyun who usually have limited free time, it is important to use the class time as much as possible to absorb, digest and recite the key points. This can reduce the review time in the evening and weekends, so

After discussing it, the two decided not to take a day off these two days. They would go out to have a meal together in the evening as a pre-celebration, and they would make up for it with a date at the weekend.

Now is the last elective course in the morning, "Securities Investment". The reason for taking this course is relatively simple. The two of them still have more than 3 million US dollars in a securities custody account in a bank in the United States. They plan to use the money to invest in securities.

Those who make money in the U.S. stock market are just because the U.S. stock market has been very depressed in the past six months and has even hit new lows. They will not act rashly without mastering the theoretical knowledge, but maintain the strategy of cash being king.

It's interesting to say that just by holding cash, the statistical function of their accounts tells them that their return rate is better than % of American investors. This shows how bad the market is.

Although this "Securities Investment" elective course did not make the two of them become value investors or technical investors, it still allowed them to learn a lot of basic knowledge about securities.

This is enough for the two of them. Qin Ke and Ning Qingyun are neither interested nor have so much time to become investment masters. They are more interested in using mathematical methods to obtain relatively stable investment returns that exceed the market.

, make some money from the U.S. stock market to support their own scientific research and experiment funds in the country.

Especially the recent purchase of new equipment for the Lime Plant Cultivation Laboratory made both of them realize that if they want to do scientific research freely in the future and build a larger and more advanced laboratory, the money spent will be astronomical. With Lime Technology currently

The financial resources are unable to support large laboratories, and even medium-sized laboratories are somewhat reluctant.

But the two of them don’t want to make too much money from domestic people through scientific research results, and they don’t want to cut off domestic investors’ leeks in the domestic stock market. So the best way is to make more money through high overseas patent licensing fees and foreign stock markets.

I have accumulated some research funds.

Qin Ke quietly handed a note to Ning Qingyun: "I think after learning this, we can almost try to build a mathematical model for investment. Start after the final exam?"

With the basic knowledge of securities investment, coupled with the detailed transaction data, stock rise and fall data, and financial data in the stock software, it is basically enough for them to establish mathematical models and write programs for autonomous trading.

"Okay." Ning Qingyun was also very interested.

Compared with computational seed science, it is actually easier to establish useful mathematical models in trading markets with huge data like stocks. Ning Qingyun prefers this kind of research that applies what she has learned, which is what she learned from functional analysis and mathematical modeling.

Very good reason.

After class, Qin took Ning Qingyun's hand and walked to the cafeteria. He was still surrounded by familiar classmates, such as Li Xiangxue, Hua Manting, Jiang Zhenjie, Ximen Hui, Gu Yanfei, Ren Jianan, etc.

Now that the weather is too cold, there are not many people who can insist on attending classes every day. At the critical time of focusing on the elective courses that originally had more than 60 people, the attendance rate is only about 60%, and it is even less in normal times. However, students in basic science classes

Under the leadership of Qin Ke and Ning Qingyun, they still maintained their usual class rhythm and were considered to be the class with the best academic style in the entire school.

Because the temperature was too low and it was snowing lightly, no one spoke a word along the way and hurried to the canteen.

When they pushed the door open and entered, the warm air hit their faces, and everyone felt that their almost freezing bodies had relaxed.

After everyone prepares their own meals, they sit together to have a "dinner" together.

After continuing to complain about the unusually cold winter, everyone turned the topic back to the school's daily news.

Jiang Zhenjie was the most active, and he was also familiar with the people in the student union, and his new girlfriend from the animation club loved gossip, so Jiang Xiaopang suddenly became the most informed among everyone.

He said mysteriously: "Have you heard that Chen Licheng, the youngest associate professor in the Department of Mathematics and a returned doctor from overseas, recently broke out in a big scandal?"

Qin Ke was stunned, Chen Licheng? Senior Chen?

He and Chen Licheng were close friends. The two met in Qin Ke's online academic live broadcast room when he was a sophomore in high school. Chen Licheng, who was still studying for a Ph.D. at MIT at the time, met him and kindly invited Qin Ke to join his scientific research team.

Later, Chen Licheng returned to Qingmu University to teach, and had dealt with Qin Ke several times. In October last year, when he was studying the formal solution of the steady-state Schrödinger equation, he fell into a Zeno-like situation because he was anxious to produce results.

"Turtle" problem, Qin Ke once came to help him solve the problem.

In Qin Ke's impression, Chen Licheng had the unique arrogance and unwillingness to admit defeat unique to a genius. He had a strong personality, but he was upright and sincere and friendly to others. He really didn't expect that Chen Licheng would cause any big scandal.

Seeing everyone looking at him curiously, Jiang Zhenjie said even more mysteriously: "This matter has been rumored for a few days, but the school has been suppressing it and not making it public. Instead, they gave Professor Chen Licheng a chance to prove his innocence.

What a pity..."

Gu Yanfei has a straightforward personality, and she is the most impatient. She said anxiously: "Fat Jiang, please stop showing off and tell me what's going on? Is there another scandal with a female graduate student?"

Generally speaking, young, unmarried male professors with promising prospects and good looks are most likely to attract female students. It is not surprising to have scandals. There have been rumors that Chen Licheng received several love letters and dated female students before.

However, Chen Licheng denied it and once said that he would abide by the ethics of teachers and would never associate with female students.

Jiang Zhenjie shook his head: "It's not these, it's the academic misconduct scandal of plagiarized papers."

"How can this be?"

Now everyone was even more surprised. Qingmu University is quite rigorous in academic studies. Everyone knows the serious consequences of plagiarism. How could Chen Licheng dare to put himself in danger? Moreover, Chen Licheng has been known as a mathematical genius since he was a child. His popularity in the school is as high as

The reputation is quite good.

"Although it's incredible, it's almost confirmed." Jiang Zhenjie sighed:

"The thing is like this. At the beginning of last month, Professor Chen Licheng submitted an article to the core domestic journal "Xia Guo Applied Mathematics and Communication". You should have heard of "Xia Guo Applied Mathematics and Communication", the impact factor ranks first in the country

The most professional mathematics journal. Originally, "Xia Guo Applied Mathematics and Communications" had been drafted and printed and was going to be put on the market. However, last week another core mathematics journal "Xia Guo Mathematics Practice" published a paper with Chen Licheng

The paper submitted by the professor is almost identical! And various evidences show that this paper was submitted nearly a month earlier than Professor Chen Licheng, and Professor Chen Licheng’s paper had not yet been completed at that time.”

Everyone was in an uproar.

Originally, some people wanted to say whether Chen Licheng's paper was leaked or something, but they were speechless after hearing the last sentence.

One paper has been completed and submitted in advance, and the other has not been completed at that time and was submitted a month late. It is almost clear whose ownership rights should belong to it.

"In other words, Professor Chen plagiarized other people's papers and also submitted them?" Ximen Hui said disappointedly. She had taken the mathematics elective course offered by Professor Chen Licheng and respected the young and promising Professor Chen. At this time,

A feeling of shattered idols.

Qin Ke frowned even more. He knew Senior Chen Licheng better. With Chen Licheng's aloofness and strong will, he would rather die than commit such academic misconduct that was degrading to his dignity.

Next to him, Ning Qingyun knew that Chen Licheng and Qin Ke had a good relationship, and couldn't help but ask Fatty Jiang: "Isn't this impossible? If Professor Chen really plagiarized other people's papers, how could he submit it to "Xia Guo Applied Mathematics and Communications"

"?"

Jiang Zhenjie shrugged his shoulders: "The current theory is that Professor Chen's research encountered a bottleneck at the time. He accidentally discovered that others were doing similar research, so he secretly copied it and planned to publish it first, but he did not expect that others would submit it earlier.

It was only then that the 'crash incident' occurred. "Xia Guo Applied Mathematics and Communications" had to withdraw Professor Chen's manuscripts and reprint them all, causing the release of the latest issue to be delayed by nearly a week. The editor-in-chief was very angry and has already

The problem has been reported to the school and the school is required to deal with it seriously. The school is still studying how to deal with Professor Chen, and the most likely possibility is to expel him."

Everyone sighed.

"Xia Guo Applied Mathematics and Communications" has suffered heavy losses this time, both financially and in terms of reputation. If the school does not deal with Professor Chen Licheng seriously, it will not be able to explain to "Xia Guo Applied Mathematics and Communications" and the mathematics community.

It is really sad to think that a young associate professor who originally had a bright future went astray and ended his academic career.

Qin Ken raised his eyebrows and said, "Zhenjie, do you know what Professor Chen himself said? Didn't the school give Professor Chen a chance to explain?"

"Professor Chen Licheng insists that he completed the paper independently without any plagiarism, and that more than 90% of his paper was completed a month before submission. Because an old man in his family died of illness, he took a period of leave and returned to his hometown for funerals.

He completed the rest of the research and then submitted it for publication. Maybe during this period, his paper was plagiarized and he completed it before submitting it for publication."

Jiang Zhenjie shook his head and sighed: "But the current evidence is very unfavorable to Professor Chen. It is said that Professor Chen's paper was completed independently, and no other people participated. The only person who knew about it was his colleague, Su Yongfeng, an associate professor in the Department of Mathematics.

.Professor Chen said that he had discussed it with Su Yongfeng several times, but Professor Su said that he had only discussed it once recently... This made Professor Chen very passive."

"This is not the worst." Jiang Zhenjie put down the tachyon and said: "The person suspected of being plagiarized is Professor Zhang Chi from the School of Mathematics at Yanda. Professor Zhang Chi has been famous for many years and is very influential in the mathematics community. He has separately spoken out and wants to be held accountable.

Professor Chen is responsible for academic misconduct. In short, Professor Chen is doomed this time."

Everyone sighed greatly, but after all, the matter had nothing to do with them. Most people had never been in contact with Chen Licheng, so they sighed twice and stopped discussing it.

Qin Ke hurriedly finished his meal, found an excuse to leave, and went to the corner to dial Chen Licheng's number.

There was a message on the other end that the phone was turned off.

He thought for a while and simply called Wei Yuanfu, the chairman of the mathematics department. This time the call was quickly connected.

"Is it Qin Ke? How can I help you?" Wei Yuanfu's voice sounded heavy and tired.

"Hello, Director Wei, I would like to know something about Professor Chen Licheng. He is my friend. I don't think he would plagiarize other people's academic achievements."

"Qin Ke... I don't suggest you get involved in this matter. Although I don't want to accept such a scandal in the mathematics department, the matter has basically been verified. Except for Chen Licheng himself who refuses to admit it, all the evidence points to him.

It is indeed academic misconduct.”

Wei Yuanfu said bitterly: "Professor Zhang Chi of Yanda University has now posted this matter on the Internet, and also initiated many connections to spread the matter, causing heated discussions. The school is under great pressure and has to deal with it quickly and strictly. Now Chen

Licheng has been suspended, and the school will give out the final solution tomorrow... Alas, I personally invited him to return to school to teach. When things have developed to this point, I don't want the worst outcome, but the department has tried its best.

, don’t set yourself on fire."

After the call ended, Qin Ke felt a little heavy.

He still didn't want to believe that an arrogant scholar like Chen Licheng would do such a thing, especially Chen Licheng's insistence on refusing to plead guilty, which made Qin Ke even more convinced of this.

Although Wei Yuanfu expressed his inability to do anything, Qin Ke still wanted to meet Chen Licheng to learn the details and see if he could help Senior Chen.

This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! After the meal, Qin Ke said goodbye to everyone as usual.

Ning Qingyun glanced at his face and whispered: "Do you want to take care of Professor Chen's matter?"

Qin Ke nodded without hesitation: "Senior Chen is my friend. I can feel his love for mathematics and I believe in him. If he is expelled with such a stigma, his life will be ruined, Xia

The Chinese mathematics community will also lose a dazzling star of tomorrow."

"Then let's go together." Ning Qingyun smiled brightly: "You believe in him, and I believe in you."

Qin Ke's heart warmed, he held the girl's little hand tightly, pulled her, held an umbrella together and walked into the wind and snow, towards Chen Licheng's scientific research laboratory.
To be continued...