For the past two days, Chen Yushan had been panicking.
Ever since she handed in the chart last time, she didn't receive any new tasks from her supervisor.
Even though it was nice to be relaxed, it made her a little worried. She didn't know if she had offended Professor Parsi.
Compared to a supervisor, students were definitely a weaker group. If he accidentally offended the tutor, not to mention whether he would be able to live comfortably for the next two years, he might not even be able to graduate after two years.
Especially when Professor Parsi, who was sitting in the office, looked at her, she felt a little scared.
Just when Chen Yushan was hesitating whether she should take the initiative to ask, Ms. Parsi finally broke the silence for the umpteenth time.
"I heard that China's Chinese New Year is on the 28th?"
This is …
She's talking to me?
"It's different every year, but it's the same this year … Why?" Chen Yushan answered her boss's question as she muttered in her heart.
Professor Michelle Parsi looked at her expressionlessly.
However, at this moment, the wrinkles at the corner of her eyes suddenly blossomed into a caring smile.
This smile was so creepy that Chen Yushan almost jumped out of her skin.
Thankfully, she didn't really jump out of her skin. Otherwise, she would have offended this old woman.
Professor Parsi paused for a second and looked at the calendar on her desk. She then said, "Thank you for your hard work these past few days. It's Chinese New Year in two weeks. Starting from today until the Lantern Festival in China, you should take a good rest. "
Chen Yushan: "…?"
Could it be …
She's giving me a holiday?!
Happiness came so suddenly that Chen Yushan wondered if she had heard it wrong.
She just called home yesterday and told her that she wouldn't be able to go back for Chinese New Year.
Several master's students and PhD students who were also sitting in the office were looking at her with envious eyes.
Professor Parsi had never talked to her students like this before. For this strict woman, her students were her employees, and they were cheap labor with a monthly salary of 300 USD.
The younger and prettier the students were, the colder and harsher she was.
But now …
The sun had risen from the west!
Professor Michael Parsi paused for a second and said with a warm smile, "Oh yeah, one more thing. Regarding the Indian retail research paper, I've reconsidered. Your work played a big role in that paper, and a fourth author position doesn't reflect your contributions. I've decided to put you in the first author position."
Chen Yushan was still in shock. She looked at the professor and said, "But Professor, I only helped to collect the documents and draw the blueprints …"
"Just?" Michelle Passi looked at her seriously. Her expression was unprecedentedly serious. "Miss Chen, I have to tell you this. For a thesis, collecting documents and drawing were just as important as writing the thesis. This was definitely not something that could be summarized with just one sentence. This is for the sake of fairness. In this matter, I will stick to my decision and put you on equal footing. "
Chen Yushan: "???"
…
Three weekends after New Year's Day, Lu Zhou got on a flight to the West Coast.
He did not know if it was because his student's name appeared on the conference submission list, but the president of the American Mathematical Society, Mr. Francis, sent him an invitation letter and eagerly invited him to attend this conference at Berkeley.
Originally, Lu Zhou did not plan on attending this academic conference.
However, Mr. Francis was too enthusiastic. Since he was going to San Francisco anyway, Lu Zhou accepted his invitation and agreed to go there. He could also see how his little student's report was doing.
After all, this was her first report in her life. Lu Zhou was still a little worried.
After the plane landed at San Francisco International Airport, Professor Tao Zhexuan drove over to pick him up.
Since the academic conference last year, the relationship between the two had been good.
Because Professor Tao's research scope was very wide, they would occasionally encounter problems in number theory or functional analysis, and the two would discuss it on MSN. When Professor Tao heard that Lu Zhou was going to attend this academic conference at Berkeley, he immediately asked for his flight number and said that he could pick him up.
Sitting in the car, Professor Tao asked with interest, "I heard that you've been researching the Collatz conjecture recently?"
Lu Zhou smiled and replied, "Yeah, are you interested?"
"I'm more than interested. I tried to research it a long time ago, but unfortunately, I didn't succeed. My intuition told me that this was a complex analysis problem, but after in-depth research, I found out that it wasn't just an analysis problem, it was even related to the Langlands program," said Tao Zhexuan, who was driving. He smiled awkwardly and said, "But with your ability, it should be fine. You have the most say in additive number theory. If even you can't solve this problem, then I think this problem can only be solved by mathematicians two centuries later. "
Even though Tao Zhexuan's statement was a bit exaggerated, it was not by much. There weren't many people in the area of additive number theory. The more typical propositions were Goldbach's conjecture and Waring's problem.
Now that Goldbach's conjecture had become the Goldbach-Lu theorem, unless someone made an outstanding contribution to the Waring's problem, no one in the new generation of mathematicians could beat Lu Zhou in this area.
Lu Zhou smiled awkwardly and explained, "You're exaggerating … Actually, I'm not the one doing this research, it's mainly my students. I'm just giving them some suggestions, but I'm not sure if there will be any results in the end. "
"I see, I thought you were the one doing this research," said Tao Zhexuan with a slightly disappointed expression.
If Lu Zhou was the one doing this, he would be looking forward to it.
But now, it seemed like he did not have high hopes.
…
The hotel arranged by the American Mathematical Society for this academic conference was near the Berkeley campus. As a scholar invited to this conference, Mr. Francis had already booked a room for Lu Zhou. Lu Zhou could check in after registering at the counter.
Professor Tao sent Lu Zhou to the hotel entrance. Since Professor Tao still had a class to teach, he said, "Come visit me when you're free" and said goodbye to Lu Zhou.
After Lu Zhou left his luggage at his hotel, he did not stay in the hotel. Instead, he went downstairs and called a taxi.
Professor Sarrot's research institute was in the southern part of the San Francisco Bay Area. It was not far from here, so Lu Zhou planned on solving this problem as soon as possible.
While sitting in the taxi, Lu Zhou called Woolf and arranged to meet at the entrance of the research institute.
He originally thought that he would be there first.
However, when he arrived at the destination, Woolf was already waiting at the door.
Woolf greeted Lu Zhou and said, "I didn't expect you to come today. If you told me earlier, I would have gone to the airport to pick you up. "
Lu Zhou said concisely, "Because something happened, I had to change my schedule. Let's not talk about this for now, let's deal with this. "
Lu Zhou did not stay at the entrance for long. He asked Woolf to lead the way and walked into the research institute.
Compared to other large research institutes, this private research institute was undoubtedly much smaller. It was only the size of a three-story building. It was located in a remote area, and the nearby transportation was not convenient.
However, even though it was small, it had everything.
At least from the equipment on the list, this research institute could complete all of the experiments that Lu Zhou needed to do.
When Lu Zhou arrived at the office on the third floor, he was about to say hello to the person in charge here. He then looked at Professor Sarrot, who was sitting on the sofa.
The moment their eyes met, the two of them were stunned at the same time.
Professor Sarrot didn't expect his research team to be bought by Lu Zhou. After realizing this, he was pleasantly surprised.
Lu Zhou also did not expect Professor Sarrot to be the "lithium-air giant" that he met at the MRS Conference. He thought the name sounded familiar …
Lu Zhou calmed himself down and confirmed that he was not mistaken.
Then …
Without hesitation, he turned around and left.
However, before Lu Zhou could take two steps, he heard Professor Sarrot's screams.
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