Chapter 901 The One-Year Deadline Has Arrived!

In short, although Chang Haonan only released a trailer for his new paper, it has caused quite a stir in both the academic and business circles.

In addition to COMSOL, several other similar products have also found technical experts or technical teams at the fastest speed to track and analyze his research dynamics.

Of course, because most competitors do not specialize in two-phase flow, they either try it out or, like COMSOL, continue their original development route after a wave of analysis.

Only ANSYS, which developed Fluent in the early years, saw the potential behind this paper.

But it also encountered a similar problem as Professor Jameson -

I really can't think of how to accurately and efficiently generate unstructured grids in the Cartesian coordinate system.

In theory, in this case, since others have published their papers, they can either poach people with high salaries, or even if they can't poach them, they can provide the author with a research topic.

But this time the situation is too special -

The person who wrote the paper is the boss of the rival company.

It's so funny, how can you poach him?

So for now, we can only wait and see what the Torch Group can do next.

Some science and technology media have re-heated the heat of this matter with headlines such as "Poincaré Conjecture Prover Releases arXiv Again".

However, we can't blame these media for making trouble out of nothing.

The main reason is that the timing is too coincidental.

You know, the proof of the Poincaré Conjecture has been left unfinished -

A year ago, the Clay Mathematics Institute made it clear that although the Poincaré Conjecture was proved almost at the same time as the official announcement, it is still one of the "Millennium Mathematical Problems".

In other words, the two provers can share a huge prize of 1 million US dollars in total.

According to the rules set at the time, the money will be officially awarded one year after the paper is published.

If the proof process still fails to gain consensus in the mathematical community after one year, then it will be delayed until it is officially recognized.

Of course, Chang Haonan and Perelman's proof process was recognized in less than a month, so it did not trigger the latter clause.

Now, the one-year deadline has come.

Everyone is ready to see whether the Cray Institute is really prepared to pay as promised, or just talking big.

...

However, compared with the disturbances from the outside world, Chang Haonan himself did not care much about the aftermath of this submission.

During this period, he was reviewing the manuscripts in the editorial mailbox to decide which of them would be published in the first issue of the JCAS journal -

Normally, this work does not require the editor-in-chief to be responsible for it personally, but after all, this is China's first attempt to enter the international mainstream academic community, so it is normal to have a higher standard.

However, the actual situation is that everyone in the editorial department is much more optimistic.

After all, Chang Haonan's signboard is really good in China.

Many people even turned their papers originally planned to be submitted to the top journals in the field to the JCAS editorial department.

For example, Professor Feng Qi of the Institute of Technical Physics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences submitted the gene sequencing and analysis results of rice chromosome 4.

Although it is only 4 pages, it is an important part of genome sequencing work.

The results are definitely worthy of being published in Nature or Science.

This is definitely full support for the work.

In addition, there are many names that Chang Haonan is familiar with.

Xu Yang, who has been running between the Institute of Computing Technology and Torch Group, has developed a high-dimensional observation method for linearized water wave problems with distributed or point measurement functions.

Professor Lin Guofan of Jincheng University proposed a new meteorological theory for the formation mechanism of major weather disasters in southern China...

In short, although the overall strength of the Chinese academic community is still relatively weak at the beginning of the 21st century, it is more than enough to concentrate the strength of research institutions across the country to support a quarterly journal.

Of course, since it is a journal for international distribution, it is naturally impossible for it to contain only articles by Chinese scholars.

As more and more people see Chang Haonan's papers on arXiv, some foreign researchers have also submitted articles to the editorial department.

However, foreigners will not have any special feelings for your new journal.

So the quality of these papers is unexpectedly uniform -

If they all submit to top journals, there will be no chance, but they are not willing to submit to some small journals. It just happens that there is a new platform with such a big boss, so why not try your luck.

This is in line with Chang Haonan's initial positioning of JCAS.

But compared with those obviously high-end submissions in China, it is inevitable that they feel a bit tasteless and a pity to throw them away.

Therefore, when Yuan Xiangya specially rushed to Chang Haonan's office to visit, the latter was comparing two papers from the same school on the screen with a tangled face, and he couldn't make up his mind for a while.

"Professor Chang, no, Editor-in-Chief Chang, you have been working hard recently."

The former put some gifts he brought next to the desk, and then sat on another office chair opposite.

Chang Haonan raised his eyelids, confirmed that there were no sensitive valuables, and then took them directly without hesitation -

During this period, his identity was like a chief editor and a workhorse, and it was natural to accept some nutritional supplements from the other party.

In fact, Yuan Xiangya is also a member of the editorial team.

It's just that there are too few papers related to his field of expertise, so he has a lot of time.

"Don't mention it. I never expected that there would be so many submissions. In addition to sleeping and eating these days, I have been reading papers almost all the time. I feel like my brain has gone numb..."

Chang Haonan said, closing both papers, and then dragged one of them into the folder named "Issue 1".

Of course, the other article will not be rejected, but it will probably have to wait until the second issue in August to be published...

"In fact, the real submissions are more than ten times more than what we saw."

Yuan Xiangya has experience in the editorial department of journals before, so he has much more experience than Chang Haonan in this regard:

"Those whose contents are too outrageous, or are just fake, and whose data can be easily seen to have problems at a glance... have actually been picked out by the editors below."

"So there's still so much left?"

Chang Haonan was immediately shocked.

"no way……"

Yuan Xiangya replied in a helpless tone:

"We didn't expect Professor Chang to have such a strong appeal. It was indeed a bit of a mistake. We knew we should have published it bimonthly... and the quality of the submissions was much higher than we thought before..."

"Forget it, after all, it's just starting out, so it's better to be steady."

Chang Haonan was relatively calm about the current situation, so he waved his hand:

"Our journal is now like Zou Ji. His wives, concubines, and guests all say that he is more beautiful than Xu Gong in the north of the city. It does not mean that it is true. If you look at more submissions, you will find that the high-level ones are all Chinese scholars at home or abroad. , it has a filter on our journal and cannot be regarded as normal. "

With that said, he reopened his mailbox and prepared to check the next email.

However, at this moment, the coherent movements suddenly stopped.

"I am worried that the publication interval of the quarterly journal is too long. Some authors cannot wait three months and may withdraw..."

Yuan Xiangya was still chatting normally, but halfway through, he found Chang Haonan staring at the computer screen in a daze.

"Professor Chang."

"Professor Chang?"

He called twice in succession.

"Um?"

Chang Haonan woke up and looked at Yuan Xiangya:

"Ah... I'm sorry, I was a little confused just now. What did you just say?"

"It's okay...it's not an important topic."

Yuan Xiangya shook his head:

"Have you... seen any particularly heavyweight paper content again?"

He is still more concerned about journal matters.

"That's not true...actually it has nothing to do with the journal."

Chang Haonan raised his hand and touched his chin:

"The Clay Mathematics Institute sent me an email saying that the award is ready."

Yuan Xiangya didn't even react when he heard this sentence:

"What……"

However, before the word "award" came out of his mouth, he had already realized——

"etc……"

"So...the $1 million for the Millennium Math Puzzle?"

Chang Haonan nodded, then shook his head:

"Strictly speaking, it's $500,000..."