Chapter 194 Unexpected News

After chatting with Xu Xiao for a while, Xu Chuan hung up the phone.

He never interfered with his sister's choice, at most he gave his own ideas and suggestions.

If this girl can find a way in chemistry or biology, it would be great.

Mathematics and physics, or chemistry and biology, are all sciences, and there is no distinction between good and bad.

But when he goes back, Old Tang will definitely complain to him, right?

Xu Chuan suddenly thought of Teacher Tang from Xingcheng No. 1 Middle School and couldn't help laughing.

Speaking of talent, Xu Xiao must have talent in physics, otherwise Old Tang would not have planned to focus on training him before.

But I didn't expect that this girl would change her mind at the last minute and run to do something else.

Just thinking about it, the phone on the table vibrated again.

This time it was Chen Zhengping, the tutor of Nanjing University, who called.

"Hello, Xu Chuan, are you up?" Chen Zhengping's questioning voice came from the phone.

Glancing at the rising sun outside the window, Xu Chuan smiled and said, "It's already up."

Hearing this, Chen Zhengping smiled and teased, "You are too self-disciplined in your life. You have proved the seven major millennium problems, but you haven't held two parties?"

"If this happened to someone else, the buffet would have to last for three days and three nights."

Xu Chuan was a little embarrassed and said, "How can it be so exaggerated."

"Okay, let's talk about business." Chen Zhengping smiled and shook his head, saying, "When will you come back? The school will hold a graduation ceremony for you."

After a pause, he continued, "It's impossible for you to graduate from Princeton and I won't let you go here."

Xu Chuan was stunned for a moment and laughed dumbly. He almost forgot that he had not officially graduated from Nanjing University.

After thinking for a while, he replied: "At the end of the year, I will probably go back around the New Year's Eve."

Chen Zhengping frowned slightly and said: "You are back too late. The school will be on vacation at that time."

Xu Chuan said indifferently: "It's okay, I don't care about this."

Chen Zhengping held his forehead and said helplessly: "You don't care, but the school does. Besides, how can you give a speech to other students when you come back so late?"

"Uh." Xu Chuan was stunned again and said: "There is no need for a speech."

"Why is it unnecessary? This is the Hodge conjecture, one of the seven millennium problems. It is not an exaggeration to say that you are now the number one in the domestic mathematics community. Invite the number one in the mathematics community to give a speech. Other schools can't invite him even if they want to. They don't have this blessing."

After a pause, Chen Zhengping continued: "In addition, you have solved the Hodge conjecture. The school and the city have rewards, at least several million. Come back early to receive the award."

Hearing this, Xu Chuan was a little amused and shook his head and said: "Okay, then I will go back early."

In order to get him to go back and give a speech, the school began to tempt him with bonuses.

However, the rewards for proving the Hodge conjecture this time will definitely not be less.

Let alone other things, the Clay Mathematics Institute alone has a full one million gold prize.

As for the domestic rewards, whether it is Nanjing University or Jinling City, or even Jiangsu Province to the country, or even Xiangnan, it is at least several million, and it is not impossible to break eight figures.

This is the Hodge conjecture, one of the seven millennium problems.

Of course, what is more important is the influence and status brought by solving this conjecture.

Although the Fields Medal is not as famous as the Nobel Prize, a Fields Medal winner, whether in China or abroad, no university or research institution in the world will refuse his joining.

In China, this influence is even greater.

The first Chinese Fields Medal has a greater influence and significance than ordinary awards.

If Xu Chuan was not too young, he would even want to expand his influence and popularity.

Of course, it is not the kind of feudal superstition, but to try his best to expand his popularity and make him a figure like an academic model.

For a country, no matter in which aspect, the emergence of a world-class scholar can greatly enhance the confidence of the country and the people, and can also drive the development of the entire discipline in the corresponding field. Even derive to other fields.

For China, such a person is currently needed in the fields of basic science and natural science.

Those who returned to China before were once pushed to the altar, but they were restricted by various aspects and finally gave up.

Now a more suitable candidate has appeared, how can it not make people excited.

In the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton, Xu Chuan called a housekeeper to clean up his villa.

This villa is one of the benefits provided by Princeton after he was called a lifetime researcher at the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton.

Another benefit is salary, and there are two.

One is a full professor from Princeton University, with an annual salary of 600,000 Mi Jin.

The other is a lifetime researcher from the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton, with an annual salary of 400,000 Mi Jin.

The two salaries add up to a total of 1 million Mi Jin, which means that his annual salary is about 7.5 million.

This is just the salary, in addition to various other benefits.

For example, research project funds, housing subsidies, performance subsidies, allowances, project commissions and other subsidies.

Relatively speaking, this salary is amazing.

Even though he proved the Hodge conjecture, he didn't have many honors. The two top awards in the mathematics world are the Crafford Mathematics Award and the Morningstar Mathematics Award.

Even if he can get the Fields Medal next year, there is a good comparison standard for the Fields Medal.

For example, after Terence Tao won the Fields Medal in 2006, the salary offered by the University of California to keep him was only 800,000 yuan per year.

800,000 yuan per year does not sound like much for a Fields Medal winner.

But this number is actually very good. After all, this is reality. It is not like some βhu, where the average monthly income is over 10,000 yuan, or some audio, where the average annual income is one million yuan.

In fact, in China, people with a monthly income of over 10,000 yuan only account for about 0.5%.

According to the population of 1.4 billion, the number of people is only 7 million.

7 million vs. 1.4 billion.

This proportion is actually quite small.

The average monthly income of over 10,000 yuan and the annual income of one million yuan on the Internet are just the amplification effect of the Internet. Many things that you could not see or understand before can now be seen on the Internet.

Coupled with services such as big data inference, netizens who go online will have an illusion.

It has to be admitted that the Internet has a subtle influence on a person. Some extravagant social chaos on the Internet that is created to attract attention will give some people who have difficulty distinguishing right from wrong a wrong consumption concept.

In fact, in China, an ordinary university professor has an annual salary of about 200,000 or 300,000 yuan, and this is a professor at the 211 or 985 level.

If you don't go against your conscience to make some side jobs, your income will not be high.

Of course, university professors have fixed courses every week, and there is a lot of spare time. They can do their own things or earn extra money by relying on their abilities. Naturally, they don't just rely on their salary to live.

But this still cannot avoid the fact that the salary of domestic scientific research staff is relatively low.

If it weren't for this, there wouldn't be so many top talents in various fields such as scientists and professors going abroad for development or immigrating every year.

In the field of science, relatively speaking, the treatment in China is indeed weak, which is an indisputable fact.

Although there are some compensations in terms of reputation, honor, resources, etc., if the most basic food, clothing, housing and transportation cannot be solved, these things are not very meaningful.

After all, people always yearn for a better life.

In modern society, money is not everything, but it is absolutely necessary to live without it.

After the housekeeper cleaned up the villa, Xu Chuan started to move.

Compared with living in a dormitory of more than 20 square meters, he still prefers to live in a villa.

Especially since he chose this villa himself and lived in it for more than ten years in his previous life.

Although he estimated that he might not live there for a long time, at best he could live there until the International Mathematical Congress next year, but it was good to experience it again.

Moving alone is a very hard and troublesome thing. Even though he is a big man and does not have as many clothes, shoes, bags, cosmetics and other miscellaneous things as girls, he has accumulated a lot of things in Princeton for nearly two years.

Especially the various books, materials and manuscripts, the number is even more amazing, so he called Brother Lin Feng, who also works in Princeton, to help.

It took the two of them a whole day to move all kinds of things in the dormitory to the villa.

Brother Lin Feng, who was called to help by him, was so tired that he collapsed directly on the sofa in the living room.

After taking out two bottles of drinks from the refrigerator and throwing one to Lin Feng, Xu Chuan also sat on the sofa. The remote control in his hand turned on the TV on the wall, making the room sound.

"It's really enviable."

After unscrewing the drink and drinking half a bottle, Lin Feng breathed a sigh of relief, turned his head and looked at the empty living room and sighed.

Xu Chuan didn't understand what Brother Lin said for a while, and asked casually: "What are you envious of?"

"Of course it's a villa. You live in a single-family villa alone, and it's in Princeton. Who wouldn't envy it." Lin Feng said with a smile.

"What's the big deal? It's not my house. It's just provided by Princeton for living. You can also rent one." Xu Chuan said indifferently.

Hearing this, Lin Feng smiled bitterly and said, "Brother, this is Princeton. Do you know how much it costs to rent a villa here? At least several thousand dollars. I can't afford it."

After a pause, he continued, "Not everyone is as rich as you."

Hearing this, Xu Chuan asked in surprise, "I remember your salary is not low, right? Princeton's teaching assistants get at least 70,000 to 80,000 dollars a year, plus subsidies and benefits, and other income, so it's not a problem to rent a house here, right?"

This senior brother Lin has now completed his further studies, graduated from Witten, and accepted a job as an assistant professor at Princeton.

Compared to other students, he is still very impressive.

After all, not every student who comes out of Princeton can stay here.

"But I can't spend half of the money on renting a house." Lin Feng shrugged and continued, "And I'm going to go back to China."

Hearing this, Xu Chuan showed a trace of surprise on his face, and asked in surprise: "Go back to China? I haven't heard you say that?"

"And if you go back to China, what about your girlfriend? Aren't you planning to get married next year?"

Lin Feng smiled and said, "She is going back to China with me and is going through immigration procedures."

Xu Chuan was stunned, and gave a thumbs up and said: "Great! Senior Brother Lin."

Lin Feng took a sip of the drink and continued: "Speaking of which, my return to China this time has something to do with you."

"Huh?"

Xu Chuan showed a puzzled expression. How did this senior brother's return to China have anything to do with him?

Lin Feng explained: "Because of CERN, it is said that our country is about to become a member of CERN. So the country is recalling a group of foreign students and scientific researchers in this field."

"Of course, I don't know whether this news is true or not, but since there is news, it is likely to be true. Once this news is officially announced, a group of people will definitely be needed to participate in CERN's work."

"And I participated in your scientific research experiment on the mystery of the proton radius before, and I have work experience at CERN, so the people of the "National Talent Project" team found me some time ago and hoped that I could return to China to work."

"Kessler also had work experience at CERN before, so like me, he took the talent introduction plan and prepared to return to China to work with me."

Hearing this, Xu Chuan widened his eyes and said in surprise: "Oh my god, this Why haven't I heard about the news? "

Lin Feng looked over in surprise and asked in surprise: "You haven't been approached by the 'National Talent Project' team?"

"This shouldn't be the case. You are a formal researcher at CERN, and you have solved the mystery of the proton radius at CERN, and calculated the most ideal search decay channel for the Higgs and the third-generation heavy quark Yukawa coupling, and completed the observation experiment. "

"I thought you were the first to be approached."

Xu Chuan shook his head and said, "No one has ever approached me."

Lin Feng smiled and clinked his drink bottle with him, saying, "Maybe your achievements in mathematics are too outstanding, causing others to ignore your achievements in physics."

Xu Chuan smiled and said, "Congratulations, Senior Brother Lin."

Although I don't know how CERN agreed to China's joining, and I don't know what the country paid during the negotiation process.

But joining CERN as a member state is definitely great news for both the country and China's physics researchers.

For a country, if it joins CERN as a member state, then according to the CERN Charter, the annual contribution ratio of each member state determines CERN's share of the member state's industrial and technological equipment procurement, as well as the proportion of its international staff employed.

In other words, CERN will partially return the member state's contribution share in different forms to promote the member state's industrial and technological progress. At the same time, the larger the contribution share, the more helpful it is to expand the number of member states' national staff at CERN.

Therefore, the CERN member state payment is not a one-way flow, and it will have a joint compound effect, forming a feedback to the member states.

Of course, the treatment of member states in this regard is definitely not as good as that of member states.

But for China, even some of the technologies after the restrictions are a pretty good return.

And for Chinese physicists, there will be greater prospects for future development in the fields of high-energy physics, particle physics, and nuclear physics.

With the background of a member state, whether it is the application for the use of the LHC large blast collider or other scientific research work, it will be more convenient than a simple cooperative relationship.

And for Brother Lin Feng, the first batch of talents recalled by the country, no matter what, they can definitely develop a world in this new field.

The first comer always has the advantage. The first person to eat crabs can taste the deliciousness of crabs first. Whether it is on the path of scientific research, or in the future political management, or other aspects, this qualification alone is enough to develop something.