The top student must be diligent

When Hu Chengbo heard that he could add Xiao Yi's WeChat, his eyes lit up and he immediately took out his phone: "Okay, okay, I'll add you right away. My name is Hu Chengbo."

"Hu Chengbo..." Xiao Yi was stunned, "Chengbo?"

He almost couldn't hold it in and started coughing.

Hu Chengbo's eyes turned resentful.

"Hahaha!"

The others in the lab burst into laughter, including Gong Weihua and Zou Qiao next to him.

"Sorry, sorry, that, I didn't mean it."

Realizing that this was a bit bad, Xiao Yi quickly apologized.

Hu Chengbo waved his hand: "It's okay, I'm used to it."

Then he glared at the others in the lab: "What are you laughing at? Don't you know to ask for WeChat?"

Hearing the words of this senior brother, the others reacted one after another, and then quickly rushed up and added WeChat with Xiao Yi.

In this way, Xiao Yi quickly got into a group with them.

Of course, Gong Weihua and Zou Qiao also quickly integrated into it, and it was even easier than Xiao Yi.

After all, although Xiao Yi was the same age as them, and even the youngest, the others were already in their twenties, while Xiao Yi was only eighteen, but in the eyes of others, Xiao Yi was always a mathematician who had been famous in the mathematics world for a long time.

There was still a sense of distance.

Of course, Xiao Yi did not care about such a sense of distance.

After all, as Xun Yong said, he would probably only stay here for a year at most.

He would probably only be a passer-by in this laboratory.

…

Time passed quickly again, and it was a day in mid-October.

In Xiao Yi's dormitory, he was sitting at his desk, continuing to think about the mass gap problem.

The desk was filled with various draft papers, and the ground and the trash can next to it were filled with a lot of crumpled papers.

These draft papers were filled with his thoughts and research on this problem from various angles.

But it must be admitted that the Millennium Problem is worthy of being the Millennium Problem.

It is much more difficult than any problem he has ever studied.

This problem, in particular, almost encompasses both the top mathematical problems and the top physical problems.

If you want to solve it, it is basically impossible if you cannot achieve success in both fields.

"At first, I thought about it from the perspective of lattice QCD, by discretizing spacetime and verifying the existence of the mass gap through numerical simulation... However, although numerical simulation provides a lot of evidence, these evidences cannot constitute a strict mathematical proof, and can only be regarded as an auxiliary verification."

"Then I tried the Schwinger-Dyson equation. By analyzing these equations, if a non-zero solution of the gluon self-energy function can be found, this will indirectly prove the existence of the mass gap. However, although some solutions have been found, these solutions are too complicated and cannot be directly converted into mathematical proofs."

"Then there is the renormalization group method, which analyzes the behavior of Yang-Mills theory at different energy scales... This is a good direction. The renormalization group flow shows a non-perturbative fixed point, suggesting that there may be a mass gap. Unfortunately... this thing may be more difficult than finding an analytical solution to the NS equation."

Xiao Yi sighed.

"Then there is also the use of AdS/CFT duality, through the duality relationship between conformal field theory and anti-de Sitter space to understand the non-perturbative properties of Yang-Mills theory, but again, this is too complicated."

He knocked his head. The above four points are the four angles he has tried in this period of time. Although there have been breakthroughs, they have all completely stuck him at a certain point.

"Maybe, only if the BUFF is upgraded to level 5, there will be a chance to solve these points that are stuck for me?"

He shook his head helplessly.

At this time, the dormitory door was knocked.

He opened the door in confusion, and then saw Academician Pang Cheng from the Institute of Physics walked in, followed by several people from the research group.

"Teacher Pang, and Senior Brother Xu, Junior Brother Cai? Why are you here?"

He has now changed his name to Teacher Pang Cheng because he is now a doctoral student at the Institute of Physics. After all, it was the Institute of Mathematics and the Institute of Physics that agreed to let him become a graduate student of both institutes at the same time.

And Pang Cheng is his doctoral supervisor in physics.

When Academician Tang Yifang of the Institute of High Energy Physics learned about it, he complained that he didn't tell them about such a big thing earlier and didn't choose their Institute of High Energy Physics.

Xiao Yi had no choice. After all, his current dormitory was so close to the Institute of Physics and the Institute of Mathematics, so it would be more convenient for this Ph.D. in Physics to be in the Institute of Physics.

Pang Cheng smiled and said, "Of course there is good news. Our project has been completed and it has been submitted to Nature. We can wait for good news."

"Oh!" Xiao Yi raised his eyebrows: "It is indeed good news."

After all, he is also one of the co-first authors of this project.

Pang Cheng did not take the first author, but the corresponding author.

At this time, there was a knock on the door again.

As a result, it was Academician Xi Lan who came.

When he saw Pang Cheng, he immediately glared: "Pang Cheng, why are you here?"

Pang Cheng narrowed his eyes and said, "Don't you know that I am Xiao Yi's mentor? Isn't it normal for me to come to my student?"

Xi Lan's fists clenched immediately.

With a cold snort, he pushed Pang Cheng aside, then smiled at Xiao Yi again and said, "Xiao Yi, I'm here to give you something."

Then, he took out an envelope and handed it to Xiao Yi, "Open it and take a look."

Xiao Yi took the envelope in confusion, and when he opened it, he was stunned.

"Invitation letter to the National Science and Technology Awards Conference?"

Chapter 167 National Natural Science First Prize!

The National Science and Technology Awards Conference is the most important event in the scientific community of China, and it is also the most concerned conference for all scientific and technological talents in the country.

Five major scientific awards will be presented at this conference, including the National Highest Science and Technology Award, the Natural Science Award, the Technological Invention Award, the Science and Technology Progress Award, and the International Science and Technology Cooperation Award.

Among them, the Natural Science Award, the Technological Invention Award, and the Science and Technology Progress Award are known as the three major awards in China. It can be said that they are related to the titles and honors of domestic scientific researchers.

For example, if you want to be selected as an outstanding young scholar, then a natural science award or a technological invention award is basically indispensable. Even if you don't have these awards, you must have at least some achievements of the same level.

In addition, these awards also greatly affect the subject evaluation of major universities. If the school wins more awards in this regard, then the score that can be pulled up during the subject evaluation will be more.

Of course, subject evaluation and the like have nothing to do with the institute.

Looking at the invitation letter in his hand, Xiao Yi asked in confusion: "Why did you suddenly send me an invitation letter?"

"The conference will be held on the 2nd of next month. It's normal to send you an invitation letter now. Anyway, you can just follow us to participate."

Xi Lan smiled and said: "I guess you should have a chance to win some awards."

Xiao Yi touched his cheek.

It should be... okay?

"Xiao Yi should go with our Institute of Physics at that time, and you should go to the Institute of Mathematics separately."

At this time, Pang Cheng next to him began to argue with Xi Lan again.

Xi Lan also declared the sovereignty of the School of Mathematics over Xiao Yi without any surprise, saying that their Institute of Physics was just a "spare tire".

Just like that, the two big guys in the eyes of others quarreled again.

Xiao Yi and Xu Zhiqiang looked at each other, and finally shook their heads helplessly.

...

Time passed quickly again, and it was November 2nd.

The National Science and Technology Awards Conference was also officially held on this day.

The venue of the meeting was in the Great Hall of the People, and martial law had already begun near the Great Hall of the People.

After all, among the people who will be present today, there are almost thousands of the best scientists in the Republic, in addition to various big leaders, martial law must be imposed.

At this time, several queues were formed at the entrance of the Great Hall of the People, and the participants were entering the venue in an orderly manner.

At a glance, the academicians can basically be called outstanding young scholars and Changjiang scholars, and they are everywhere.

These scholars also greeted each other, and at the same time, they could not help but test each other's possibility of winning the award.

All of a sudden, these other big names in the eyes of others seemed to have become students, and now it was the time when the exams had just been completed and the results were about to be released.

"Academician Wang, I'm afraid you can at least get the first prize of the National Natural Science Award this time!"

"Hey, what is Academician Liu talking about? My project is really bad, and it won the first prize of the National Natural Science Award. I'm so lucky to get the Progress Award."

"Hey, isn't this Professor Sun? Long time no see, long time no see. Can you tell me the bottom line? Is the first prize the goal this time?"

"Hey, Professor Zhao, are you kidding? If I can get the first prize today, I will treat you to dinner at Shangjing Restaurant later. Do you think it's okay?"

...

In a row of queues, Xiao Yi was standing in the middle, waiting to enter the Great Hall.

If his face looked a little strange, listening to the Yangtze River Scholars and academicians around him denying that they could win the award, he always felt like he was back in high school.

Well, I can only say that modesty is a long-standing and beautiful virtue of the Chinese nation.