Qin Ke nodded and said: "We received the invitation letter more than a month ago. It's next Monday, right? Are you going too?"

Qin Ke and Qingjun are no longer very excited about winning awards. Not to mention international awards such as the Craford Award, Breakthrough Prize in Mathematics, and Fields Medal, domestic awards in the past six months alone have been overwhelming.

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Ali Damo Academy’s “Green Orange Award”, Qiushi Science and Technology Foundation’s “Qiushi Outstanding Young Scholar Award”, Xia Guo Science and Technology Association’s “Youth Science and Technology Award”, Xia Guo Youth League’s “Young Scientist Award”, Xia Guo Times’

"Xia Guo's Most Influential Person of the Year", Xia Guo's "Excellent Youth Model" by Xia Guo's Propaganda Department... He has received a total of 19 domestic awards, large and small, in half a year. It can be said that he has unlimited glory.

If most of these awards were not sent to Qingmu University in person by the awarding organizations, Qin Ke and Ning Qingyun would not have time to receive so many awards.

But these domestic awards are far less important than the National Science and Technology Awards.

The National Science and Technology Award is a national-level award, awarded by Xia Guo, which means that academic research achievements are recognized by the country, so it is the most valued academic honor in the domestic scientific research community.

The National Science and Technology Awards include the National Highest Science and Technology Award, the National Natural Science Award, the National Technological Invention Award, the National Science and Technology Progress Award and the International Science and Technology Cooperation Award.

Lifetime achievement awards such as the National Highest Science and Technology Award will basically only be awarded to elderly scientists and academicians who have made great contributions to national scientific research. Only a maximum of two candidates can win the award in a year.

For example, at the age of 71 this year, Qin Ke’s teacher, Academician Jiang Weixian, was nominated for the country’s highest science and technology award, and this is considered a relatively “young” candidate. Most candidates are over 80 years old, and more than 90 years old.

It’s not like there are no year-old candidates.

Next is the National Natural Science Award, which only rewards scholars who have made significant scientific research achievements in basic research in mathematics, physics, chemistry, astronomy, earth science, life science, etc. and applied basic research in the fields of information, materials, engineering technology, etc., divided into

First and second prizes.

Due to the particularity of the highest science and technology award, the Natural Science Award has become the most desired academic honor for young and middle-aged scholars and even most scholars and researchers under the age of 70, and the competition is extremely fierce.

Especially for the first prize, the number of places is very tight every year. Generally, only one is awarded. Both places are rare exceptions. The selection is strict and it is better to miss the prize than to overdo it. In the fifth and sixth prizes, because there are no qualified project candidates, the vacancies are directly left.

Therefore, being able to win the first prize of the Natural Science Award is the top honor in domestic academic circles.

After the Natural Science Award comes the Technical Invention Award, which mainly rewards scientific research and technical personnel who use scientific and technological knowledge to make major technological inventions and innovations in products, processes, materials and systems.

Qin Ke and Ning Qingyun developed the Lime operating system in their senior year of high school, making great contributions to the country's first national operating system with completely independent intellectual property rights. They could have won the National Technology Invention Award, but because

Due to various factors such as age and environment, it was finally changed to the "National Youth Science and Technology Innovation Award Special Prize".

As for the Science and Technology Progress Award, it is awarded to scientific research and technical personnel who have made outstanding contributions in the application and promotion of advanced scientific and technological achievements, and the completion of major scientific and technological work plans and projects. It is a science and technology award with wide coverage, and is one level lower than the Invention Award.

, after all, you can win this award even if you introduce technology from abroad, digest it, absorb it and promote it. The originality requirements are not that high, and your status in the domestic academic community is naturally inferior to the Natural Science Award and the Technology Invention Award.

The International Science and Technology Cooperation Award is prepared for international friends and international organizations, so I won’t mention it in detail.

You can see the weight difference between several awards from the number of awards given in previous years.

Generally, the highest science and technology awards are 0-2; the National Natural Science Award is 0-2 first prizes and 40-50 second prizes; the Technical Invention Award is 2-3 first prizes and 50-60 second prizes;

The technical progress award includes 1 to 2 special prizes, 10 to 20 first prizes, and 100 to 150 second prizes...

According to online rumors, Qin Ke and Ning Qingjun's Qingba projects "Proof of Hail Conjecture" and "Proof of Goldbach Conjecture" were also nominated for the first prize of this year's National Natural Science Award.

Especially after Qin and Ke won the Fields Medal, many netizens felt that it was certain that they would win the first prize in the Natural Science Award.

I have already won the Fields Medal, but the country is too embarrassed not to give me the first prize of the Natural Science Award?

However, the rumors are just rumors. This time Qin Ke and Ning Qingyun received invitations to participate in the awards ceremony. It did not indicate whether they had won awards or what awards they would receive.

"I also have an invitation letter, but I am just a guest attending the ceremony. And you are there to receive the award." Academician Guo Weiyang sighed with a smile:

"Young people are scary. I was already 35 years old when I won the National Science and Technology Progress Award. But I can't compare with you. After all, you won the Fields Medal at the age of 20."

He looked at the two of them: "Lao Jiang and I, as well as Academician Tian Jianlan, and your teacher Wang Heng, have jointly recommended you to be candidates for the first prize of the National Natural Science Award. It's hard to say whether you will get it, but

You are almost certain to win the second prize."

Of course Guo Weiyang also heard the rumors on the Internet, but the first prize of the Natural Science Award has always been awarded only to the field of applied research. The results of Qin Ke and Ning Qingyun are almost all concentrated in the basic theory of mathematics, which adds a lot of variables.

, no one knows whether the superiors will make an exception for Qin Ke.

Moreover, he is well-informed and knows that many of the older generation, either out of fear or jealousy, do not approve of awarding the first prize of the Natural Science Award to Qin Ke and his wife early.

"As an excuse, Qin Ke and Ning Qingyun have won the Fields Medal at a young age and have been repeatedly exposed and praised by the national media. Under such circumstances, they are awarded the second highest science award.

won the first prize of the Natural Science Award, will that add fuel to the flames and lead to the story of "injuring Zhongyong"?

This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! However, there are also seniors who strongly support Qin Ke and the two, and believe that such talented scholars should be treated specially and not let them feel cold.

All in all, there is a huge quarrel now over whether Qin Ke and Ning Qingyun will win the first prize or the second prize. Academician Jiang Weixian has been on a business trip for nearly a month. It is not just a business trip, he is also working hard after work.

Contact friends from all walks of life to secure resources for the two disciples and increase the probability of winning the first prize of the Natural Science Award.

Similarly, regardless of his old age and frailty, old academician Wang Heng secretly came to the capital to visit many important people, also to build momentum for his two disciples.

Of course, these matters have not been made public, and Guo Weiyang will not elaborate on them with Qin Ke and others, causing trouble for the two students.

Guo Weiyang encouraged him warmly: "In short, regardless of whether you can get the first prize this year, when you can really crack the n-s equation, it will have a great promotion effect on the country's fluid mechanics. By then, this first prize will definitely fall to

On your heads."

Qin Ke smiled: "We will definitely work hard."

Although he didn't know that Teacher Jiang Weixian and Teacher Wang Heng were working on their affairs, he knew it.

Others don't know about "Mr. Q"'s participation in the research and development of domestic EDA, but Uncle Yang, who is in charge of scientific and technological lines, knows clearly that this is an achievement in the application field. Last week, Uncle Yang called him and Ning Qingyun to mention it.

Let’s talk about this natural science award and say, “Don’t worry, no one can take it away from you.”

Guo Weiyang was very satisfied with the reaction of the two people: "Okay, the task of the 'Turbulence Group' has been completed ahead of schedule. It will be free research time until the Spring Festival. You can focus on the n-s equation, or you can participate in the 'Air Turbulence and Climate Prediction' on your own.

The experiments of other groups in the research group will increase our knowledge.”

As he was talking, he remembered something and said: "Lao Jiang asked me to tell you that you don't have to take any final written exams this semester. If you submit a paper that can be published in a core domestic physics journal, you can get full marks for this semester's exams."

.You guys work hard."

Are papers published in core domestic journals considered an exam?

Qin Ke couldn't help complaining in his heart. Ordinary doctoral students can graduate by publishing a paper in a core domestic journal, but he and Ning Qingyun can only get the results of one final exam... Academician Jiang Lao's requirements for them are really high.

Scary.

However, this opportunity was rare. Qin Ke thought of his special mission, "It's time to make your international voice heard in the physics community", so he took the opportunity to ask: "Academician Guo, can we use the data in the laboratory to write a paper?

"

"Yes, but please note that many tasks and projects of our research group are marked as confidential, and these data cannot be used to write papers for external publication. I suggest that you use the laboratory instruments to redesign them and conduct research that is consistent with your paper.

Experiments, so that the experimental data does not have to worry about trouble involving sensitive data. Just when the turbulence team is free, I can ask them to assist you in the experiment. As for the cost, you don't have to worry about it. You two allowed the 'turbulence team' to complete the task half a year ahead of schedule.

, save a lot of money, you can do any experiment within 10 million yuan."

Ten million……

Qin Ke and Ning Qingyun looked at each other and sighed again that it was great to work with the right boss. You must know that Professor He Liangfu was almost driven crazy due to lack of project funds, so he had to turn to them for help in order to get through him.

The two computational materials science uses mathematical modeling to reduce the number of experiments and save experimental costs...

After leaving Academician Guo Weiyang's office, Ning Qingyun asked: "Qin Xiaoke, why don't we write about the n-s equation in our paper? This is the most worry-free and labor-saving."

"Well, let's just write a paper on physical theory related to the n-s equation. However, our goal cannot be set in the core domestic journals. If we want to write, we must write a better paper that can be published in "Physical Review Letters", "Applied Physics Letters" and "Journal of Physics"

"or "Nature Physics", the four top international journals." Qin Ke planned to take advantage of this opportunity to complete a quarter of the special tasks first.

Ning Qingyun was shocked by Qin Ke's goal: "Directly challenge the top international physics journal? Is it too difficult?"

Qin Ke said confidently: "We have published papers in domestic core physics journals before, so it is not too challenging. Since Teacher Jiang has high hopes for us, let's surprise him."

Ning Qingyun was indeed inspired by him, clenched her fists and said, "Okay, let's work hard together!"

After the two returned to their seats, they discussed for a while, then opened arxiv to search for relevant papers, and finally decided on the topic of the paper - "Research on the Changing Characteristics of Large-Scale Circulation Forms Using the N-S Equation".

Large-scale circulation is one of the important features of turbulent thermal convection. Both of them have read relevant experimental content in the historical materials of the "Turbulence Group". At present, no one in the entire physics community has used the n-s equation to analyze the large-scale characteristics of turbulent thermal convection.

Circulation is studied.

Qin Ke has also seen relevant theories in the system's S-level knowledge "Exploration and Detailed Solution of Nonlinear Partial Differential Equations "Navier-Stokes Equations"". Writing the theoretical part is not very difficult. The difficulty lies in

How to design an experimental plan and verify the conclusions derived by the two people through the n-s equation through actual experiments.

Ning Qingjun suggested: "We have seen the historical data of the research group before. Under large prandtl numbers (pr), the flow pattern of thermal convection changes more obviously. Experimental observations will be clearer. Should we start in this direction?

"

Qin Ke readily agreed, and the outline of the paper was quickly drawn up.

Postdoc Deng Zhaoliang asked curiously: "What are you discussing?" He sat on the seat next to Qin Ke, so although he was not a member of the "Turbulence Group", he was familiar with both of them.

Qin Ke smiled and talked about the content of the final exam assigned by Teacher Jiang, and Deng Zhaoliang said:

This chapter is not over, please click on the next page to continue reading! "You are so miserable. Academician Jiang Lao is indeed very strict. When I studied with him as a doctoral student, I published three papers in core domestic journals before I successfully obtained my Ph.D.

Degree certificate. You are the close disciples of Academician Jiang Lao. You may have to submit ten papers before you can graduate with your doctorate..."

After that, he comforted: "However, Academician Jiang is very responsible. He often helps us correct the shortcomings and errors in our papers. We can learn a lot from him. In most cases, he is not even the corresponding author. My three

Each paper was signed only by myself. Such a conscientious mentor is so rare, so I applied to stay as a postdoctoral fellow after graduation. Please do your best."

Qin Ke had a good impression of Deng Zhaoliang, who had a cheerful personality, so he suggested: "Senior Deng, when we do experiments, do you want to help? You can write a second work in our thesis."

"Experiment? No problem. As for the name, I don't need to do it. I will be very satisfied if I can increase my experimental experience." Deng Zhaoliang has several first-author papers in domestic core journals, and he no longer cares about the second-author papers.

Qin Ke's lips curled up, but he did not tell Deng Zhaoliang that this paper was published in a top international journal. Even if it is a second paper, its influence is even greater than that of a first paper in a core domestic journal.

Let’s give Senior Deng a surprise then.

…

In the next week, Qin Ke and Ning Qingyun devoted themselves to writing this paper. With their mathematical skills, they wanted to work out a special solution to the n-s equation under large pr number turbulent thermal conditions. It took a long time.

It took a lot of time and effort, but the results were very satisfying. It only took the two of them four days to complete the special solution of the n-s equation and the derivation of the changing characteristics of large-scale circulation patterns. The next step was to design the experimental plan.

But with the arrival of the National Science and Technology Award Ceremony, the two temporarily put aside this paper and went to attend this conference that attracted great attention from the entire academic and scientific research community.
Chapter completed!