Chapter 974 Do You Want to Celebrate the New Year Together?

As the general manager of Torch Group, Chang Haonan is not only the sponsor of this conference and competition, but also has a high reputation in numerical calculation and even the entire mathematics field.

Therefore, he can use it as a reason to invite someone specially.

Moreover, the conference communique is issued as a summary only after all the agendas are completed.

With Professor Harold Huang's level, even if he just reorganizes the paper published in JCAS last year and reports it, it is enough to cause a big enough response at the conference.

Besides, although the other party has been silent for nearly a year, it is impossible for him to stand still.

Even Chang Haonan is a little bit looking forward to whether the other party will have any new results that have not been published in this period.

As far as he knows, Professor Huang's research direction does not seem to be very popular in the United States.

This meeting can also be used to keep in touch.

When the conditions are ripe later, consider poaching him.

Nowadays, many foreigners come to China to cheat with unknown names, but there are too few with real talents.

Torch Group can set an example in this regard.

On the other side, Song Jingming also quickly wrote down Chang Haonan's request in a notebook, and then stuffed everything in his hand back into the briefcase:

"Then Mr. Chang, I have nothing to do today, but you don't forget to set questions. If there is an extra round of preliminary competition, you should add another round of question bank..."

"Don't worry about setting questions."

Chang Haonan replied:

"I have already prepared the questions for the finals. As for the preliminary competition... I think we can let the special guests of this conference, including myself, set a question each, and then randomly draw from them."

"That's good..."

As the main person in charge of the entire conference, including the competition, Song Jingming naturally knew that Chang Haonan was going to dig a hole for COMSOL in the final.

But he didn't understand technology and didn't know how Chang Haonan would operate specifically, so he could only follow orders when it came to questions.

…

After dealing with the matters at the Aviation Power Group, Chang Haonan got what he wanted and left early.

On the way, he asked Zhu Yadan to go to the Torch Laboratory.

In fact, there was no such arrangement, but just before Song Jingming left, he suddenly mentioned the competition test questions to Chang Haonan.

After the latter finished the questions, he put the floppy disk in the laboratory.

After thinking about it, he decided to go and get it.

After all, according to the schedule, after the annual leave is over, it is time to enter the preparation stage for the preliminary competition.

So the question-making matter really has to be done during the holiday.

Fortunately, for Chang Haonan, who has experienced many battles now, it doesn't take much effort.

The finals are troublesome because they need to specially design the subject areas related to the questions, and even some specific values, so that the calculation process involves high calculation weight problems, which can trigger the bug of the finite volume method.

There is no need to consider these in the preliminary competition.

Just grab two relatively simple projects from Liu Hongbo, and then abstract the problem a little.

About an hour later, two cars drove into the gate of the Torch Laboratory one after the other.

It was already the beginning of 2002, and the new site of the laboratory outside the Fifth Ring Road had been fully completed and put into use.

Since the test center of the laboratory belongs to a national basic science research platform, in addition to the teachers and students of Chang Haonan's research group, there are also many technicians from other units such as the Ministry of Science and Technology, Beijing Municipal Science and Technology Commission, and Huaxia Academy of Sciences working here.

Therefore, even though it was the 29th day of the twelfth lunar month, and Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics had already had its winter vacation, there were still many people coming and going in the laboratory compound.

"Professor Chang, Happy New Year..."

"Mr. Chang, Happy New Year!"

"Teacher Chang..."

Since getting off the car, Chang Haonan received New Year's greetings from almost everyone he met.

Although he could hardly recognize any of them, he had to at least nod his head to show his enthusiasm.

Walking all the way into the main building, he even felt a little sweaty.

The Torch Laboratory has a system of separate access to different areas. The ground part of the main building has the highest authority. Almost only people in his research group, as well as a few people from the Torch Group and the Academy of Sciences can enter directly.

Others have to apply in advance.

Therefore, unlike the situation outside, it seems deserted here.

"I've covered myself so tightly, how come everyone can still recognize me..."

Chang Haonan took off his hat and scarf and complained helplessly.

Zhu Yadan, who had been following behind him silently, showed an expression that couldn't bear to look directly:

"I think it would be strange if they couldn't recognize you, the leader..."

"And you have been dressed similarly since the beginning of winter this year... No, including the winters of previous years. Even if it is someone you are not familiar with, you should be able to remember him after seeing him a few more times..."

"Uh..."

Chang Haonan stopped in his tracks and looked down at the hat and scarf in his hand.

Although he didn't want to admit it, it seemed to be true.

If Zhu Yadan hadn't mentioned it specifically, he wouldn't even have noticed it.

"Actually, I have many sets of the same clothes to wear in rotation, I don't always wear this one..."

"Of course I know."

Zhu Yadan replied:

"But I can't control what others think..."

This answer made Chang Haonan feel a little worried——

In the eyes of others, I won't be the kind of sloppy person who doesn't change my clothes for a month...

But soon, he suddenly thought of another more important thing:

"Speaking of which, if I wear the same thing every day, will it affect your security work?"

"For example, someone can recognize you from a distance."

In fact, Chang Haonan didn't understand this. He just watched some assassination-related movies in his previous life, and similar things seemed to be mentioned in them.

"That's not true. If it really had any impact, I should have warned you long ago."

Zhu Yadan immediately shook his head:

"After all, you are in a generally safe big city rather than on the front line, so the focus of security is still on the schedule and itinerary. As for after you get off the car...even if you change clothes every day, as long as others look at your standing position, it will actually be... It’s easy to find key targets among the crowd.”

"Or in other words, if someone really pulls out a weapon within a dangerous distance, then the security work will be considered a failure..."

After some explanation, Chang Haonan relaxed a little.

It makes sense if you think about it carefully. When you speak on stage or attend some event, your name tag is written out and placed in front of you. You don't need to rely on your clothes to identify your identity.

Besides, no security guard can actually set up a sniper within 200 meters, right?

No way?

…

While chatting with Zhu Yadan, the two of them had already arrived at Chang Haonan's office and found the floppy disk box buried deep in the drawer.

In fact, at this moment, early forms of U disks have begun to appear on the market, but their application scope is relatively small and their stability is relatively poor, so they have not yet been fully promoted.

When storage pressure is not high, floppy disks still occupy a relatively mainstream market.

In fact, when Chang Haonan was just reborn, he thought about whether he should open a company in advance to register the USB flash drive and make a fortune from it.

However, before he had time to start doing this, he had already taken off within the Science and Technology Commission system.

Within the next two years, he even reached the position of chief planner of the Aerospace Power Group.

Considering that the USB interface flash drive patent ultimately belongs to a Chinese company, it would be a bit ugly if it were to compete with one of its own people again.

And there is a suspicion of bullying others.

So, in the end, it was settled.

"Professor Chang?"

Just as Chang Haonan was recalling the past in front of a box of floppy disks, a familiar crisp voice suddenly came from the door.

Chang Haonan, who was awakened, raised his head and found that it was Yao Mengna standing outside.

"Teacher Yao?"

Chang Haonan looked at Yao Mengna, who was wearing a beige windbreaker and slim jeans, and was a little confused:

"Isn't it already a holiday...you didn't go home this year?"

"Well... the previous project on polyphase diagram segmentation algorithm is about to be approved, so I have been busy in the laboratory for a few more days..."

Yao Mengna explained:

"I originally bought a ticket for today to go home, but... there was a sudden snowstorm over there, all flights were canceled, and train tickets were temporarily unavailable..."

At the end, there was a bit of grievance in the ending.

Zhu Yadan, who was standing next to Chang Haonan, could tell that this tone was at least 60% fake without even raising her head.

Even the fact that I can't go home may not be a real emergency.

After all, people who really want to go home should check the weather forecast in advance. How could they find out that they can't go back until the end of the day?

From this further speculation, even if Chang Haonan does not come to the Torch Laboratory today, I am afraid that he will receive a call from the other party complaining at the latest tomorrow...

But after thinking about it, she chose to shut up.

Judging from past experience, no matter what happens next, it has nothing to do with security work...

And Chang Haonan...

Of course not as sharp as Zhu Yadan.

Looking at the senior sister at the door, he almost said something mysteriously:

"Otherwise... go to my house tomorrow to celebrate the New Year?"