Chapter 973 Invite Him to the Meeting!

After the production of Turbofan 10 was successfully finalized, the project establishment work of Turbofan 20 and QC300 gas turbines...

Of course it won't start right away.

Chang Haonan is not a devil.

A buffer period must still be left for comrades.

Otherwise, he doesn't have to stress about completing the appraisal meeting before the Spring Festival.

The day after Chang Haonan returned to the capital from Shengjing, it was already the 29th day of the twelfth lunar month.

By the way, he also asked his parents to be brought to the capital.

In this current year, the management of holidays is not so strict, so the holiday starts from the first day of the first lunar month, but in fact many less important positions no longer work on New Year's Eve.

Basically, the twenty-nine is the last serious working day.

Since the lunar year and the natural year do not coincide, Chang Haonan doesn't have much to do such as year-end summary.

It is customary on this day to send written New Year greetings to leaders, subordinates or acquaintances in four capacities: myself, a professor at Beihang University, the general manager of Torch Group, and the chief planner of Aviation Power Group -

It is similar to the New Year greeting messages many years later. Although most cases can be dealt with with unified copy and paste, there are still some people who need to pay attention individually.

A handwritten signature is a great way to do this.

As well as deploying some businesses that cannot be suspended even during the Spring Festival holiday.

Such as external liaison and so on.

Other partners don’t celebrate the Spring Festival.

For such a large group, it is impossible to completely shut down.

When Chang Haonan finished processing the last congratulatory letter, he felt that his wrists were already a little sore.

So, he called Zhang Liangping and asked him to come over and take the letters and seal them separately.

Naturally, a dedicated person will be responsible for the subsequent letter delivery work, and Chang Haonan does not need to do it himself.

Next, just wait for Zhang Liangping to come over, and then simply arrange the work for the next few days to him, and today's task will be over.

As New Year's Eve approaches, even Chang Haonan is ready to catch a fish and go home early——

I worked overtime like crazy when the Turbofan 10 was not finalized. Now that the Turbofan 10 is finalized, if I still work overtime like crazy, then isn’t the Turbofan 10 finalized in vain?

However.

When the office door was knocked and then pushed open, Chang Haonan's heart, which had been released, suddenly sank.

Because, in addition to Zhang Liangping, standing at the door was Song Jingming, who was wearing a cotton coat and his shoulders were covered with snowflakes...

At this time, the latter ran over to find him despite the heavy snow, obviously it was impossible just to pay New Year greetings.

Zhang Liangping quickly collected all the letters on the table, and Chang Haonan motioned to him to go back first and talk about work later.

As a result, only Chang Haonan and Song Jingming were left in the office.

"Mr. Chang, I wish you a Happy New Year in advance!"

Song Jingming paid homage to Chang Haonan when he came up.

"Okay, happy New Year to you too."

The latter waved his hand and motioned for the other party to sit wherever he wanted:

"Let's talk about something..."

Seeing this, Song Jingming got to the point directly:

"That's right, we have basically completed preparations for the Numerical Algorithm and Computational Science Conference you arranged previously, and the plan is to hold it at the end of March."

"The entire process is basically in line with the highest-level academic conferences in other industries. There is nothing special about it. There are just two things that you need to confirm in person."

As he spoke, he took out a notebook from his pocket and opened it:

"The first is the numerical calculation competition before the conference. Since we promoted it at the end of last year, so far, the number of registered universities and research institutions has exceeded three digits, and many schools have multiple teams registered. The total number of participants It must be more than a thousand."

"Considering that the competition will be held offline, should we consider setting up a preliminary round or group stage in several locations, and finally select only the top one-fifth or one-quarter of the teams to participate in the finals?"

"After all...if there are too many people, it will also put pressure on our judging team and field management team."

As the chief planner and directly responsible person, Song Jingming still felt a little guilty about arranging foreigners on this scale.

I have never had any relevant experience in the past.

“There’s no need to make it so complicated.”

Fortunately, Chang Haonan has already considered these things relatively maturely:

"The preliminary round can be held online, with several relatively low-level questions set up, and each participating group submitting corresponding engineering documents, and we will evaluate the calculation results."

"Besides...what's there to worry about when there are so many people?"

Chang Haonan smiled:

"We don't have to pay for the contestants' travel expenses, food and accommodation. They come in large numbers and they always have to spend money in the surrounding areas. Wouldn't it actually boost the economy..."

Torch Group still has 100 million points of influence in the numerical computing business.

Regardless of competitions or conferences, except for a few big players, there is no need to attract foreigners to participate by issuing subsidies.

As long as you set an honor with enough influence and a bonus, that's enough.

However, after hearing this, Song Jingming frowned with concern:

"But Mr. Chang, our competition rules prohibit instructors from participating. If we adopt an online method, how can we prevent contestants from cheating?"

“It’s easy, no need to avoid it”

Chang Haonan gave the answer almost without thinking:

"Our preliminary round is not based on the overall proportion, but on the basis of the school or institution. That is, each school can only send one undergraduate group and one graduate group to participate in the finals."

"In this way, no matter what form they use to pass the preliminary round, they will have to see their true results offline in the finals. If they find the instructor to cheat during the preliminary round, it will only make their school more embarrassing in the final stage..."

This kind of thinking actually puts the pressure of preliminary selection on the school's head.

If the school does not want to embarrass itself in front of its peers, it must ensure that the team it sends is strong enough and naturally has incentives to fight against cheating.

Of course, it is impossible to completely guarantee fairness in online competitions.

But first of all, the fairness aspect is guaranteed by the finals, so it won't be particularly ugly.

Secondly...

The core purpose of this competition is not to sort participating schools into third, sixth, or ninth place, but to dig a hole for COMSOL to jump in——

Even if all foreign teams choose to use TORCH Multiphysics software to compete, Chang Haonan himself will specially arrange for a few obscure domestic schools to use competing products.

Combined with specially designed tricky questions...

In short, after the final results come out, everyone will notice the serious loopholes in COMSOL Multiphysics' CFD calculations.

As for who is the champion...

There is a high probability that no one will pay attention to it anymore.

…

"Then...there's another thing."

After writing down Chang Haonan's instructions, Song Jingming took out a folder from his briefcase and placed it in front of Chang Haonan:

"This is the list of special guests for this conference. Is there anything else you want to add or delete?"

Special guest, as the name suggests.

Compared with ordinary participants who submit their own applications and get approval, the people on this list are actively invited by Torch Group to attend the meeting.

Of course, there are definitely differences in terms of treatment.

At least it is impossible for these people to pay for their own food and accommodation like other participants.

Chang Haonan opened the folder and found a list of three pages, front and back.

In addition to the name and work unit, there are also main academic achievements, contact information, personal willingness to participate in the conference, and a headshot.

There are about a dozen or so people who have confirmed that they can come.

Basically, they are all the big guys in the field of numerical computing who are still active in the academic frontline——

This field is too close to engineering and relies more on experience than theory in most cases. Therefore, it is not as easy to produce many famous names as in subjects such as mathematics or physics.

Except for a few outliers like Anthony Jameson and of course Chang Haonan himself, few people can single-handedly make any huge results that promote the development of the entire research field.

Therefore, even Chang Haonan could hardly think of any missing candidates.

He closed the folder and prepared to end the conversation:

"That's it..."

However, at this moment, a name suddenly flashed in his mind.

Harold Wong.

It was the professor who contributed to the first issue of JCAS journal.

The other party used a method called "high-order flux reconstruction (FR)" to unify several compact and high-precision formats that have appeared in recent years.

This achievement did not cause much trouble at the time, and the number of subsequent citations could only be considered moderate, but Chang Haonan was very optimistic about its development prospects.

It just needs to further promote its application scope.

Originally, his plan was to invest some resources in this direction after the 2.0 version update of TORCH Multiphysics was completed.

But after that time, Chang Haonan seemed to have never seen papers published in the other party's name.

"Old Song."

He reopened the folder, took out a pen, wrote "Harrod. Huynh" at the end of the list, and handed it to the other party:

"There is a professor named Harold Huang at Ohio State University. I will send you his email address and research group URL later. You can contact him to see if he is willing to attend the meeting. If so, Together as special guests.”

"Harold Huang..."

Song Jingming took the folder:

"Are you Chinese?"

"It doesn't look like it."

Chang Haonan shook his head:

"It's probably just a coincidence of the transliteration of the last name."

"When I looked up information before, I seemed to have never heard of this name..."

Song Jingming frowned slightly, worried that there might have been some oversight in his work.

"You've probably never heard of it."

Chang Haonan leaned back in his chair, turned around and looked at the snowy scene outside the window:

"This guy is not very well-known in academia, and if he hadn't happened to contribute a paper, I wouldn't have known the name."

"But this kind of person is the one we should focus on..."

After confirming that it was not his fault, Song Jingming breathed a sigh of relief:

"Then, the reason for special invitation in the meeting communiqué..."

"Just write me to invite you."

Chang Haonan answered simply and neatly.