The talent placement problem was solved. After New Year's Day, the new researchers would arrive, and the research plan could be put on the agenda.
As for coordinating the work of the new researchers, making them quickly adapt to their new roles and positions, arranging the work and projects of the various research groups, as well as the allocation of some of the important equipment, this was a test of Yang Xu's management ability.
Lu Zhou walked in the hallway outside the principal's office and took out his phone to call Wang Peng. He told him to drive to the side of the road outside the administrative building.
However, when Lu Zhou hung up the phone, he suddenly had a strange look on his face.
Speaking of which, after working for so long, he even solved the dormitory problem for his employees. However, he still didn't have a place to stay in Jinling, so he had to stay in a hotel all day.
Lu Zhou couldn't help but smile and shake his head.
I'll take some time to look at a house.
…
Lu Zhou went downstairs and sat in Wang Peng's car. He was about to put on his seatbelt when he suddenly received a call.
When he saw that it was Xiao Tong, he picked up the call and put the phone next to his ear.
"Bro, where are you?"
Lu Zhou: "I'm going back to the research institute, why?"
Xiao Tong looked around and asked, "Are you going to the gala after New Year's?"
Lu Zhou: "What gala?"
Xiao Tong said bashfully, "Yeah, the Annual Person Gala."
Lu Zhou could not help but smile when he heard about the Annual Person Gala. He tried to act cool in front of his sister.
"If everything goes well, your bro is going to give out the award."
Xiao Tong said, "Really?!"
Lu Zhou: "Yeah … Why?"
"Nothing! I'm hanging up, bye bye! "
Lu Zhou: …?
Xiao Tong didn't give Lu Zhou any time to ask questions. She immediately hung up the phone.
When Lu Zhou heard the busy tone, he put down the phone in his hand.
He looked at the screen in confusion. He still didn't understand why this guy suddenly called him. What was he planning to do?
Wang Peng: "Sister?"
Lu Zhou put away his phone and said, "Mhmm."
Wang Peng, who was holding the steering wheel, sighed with emotion. "It's really nice."
Lu Zhou smiled and shook his head. "You won't feel that way when you really have one."
After driving for Lu Zhou for so long, Wang Peng and he were almost familiar with each other.
In addition, their age difference wasn't that big, and neither of them was that kind of rigid person, so they were relatively casual when they talked. Occasionally, when they were chatting and bragging, they would also talk about personal matters.
Of course, Lu Zhou didn't ask about his specific position because there was no need to ask. It was just like how Wang Peng never asked about his research.
Wang Peng: "Not necessarily."
Lu Zhou: "Are you an only child?"
Wang Peng sighed and said, "My family is part of the government, so I can't escape."
Lu Zhou nodded and expressed his understanding.
Speaking of which, his father's factory was also part of the government.
He didn't remember how his father and Xiao Tong survived, but he heard that his family was in a lot of trouble.
Wang Peng: "When I get married, I plan on having a second child. What about you?"
Lu Zhou coughed and said, "It's too early for me to think about this."
…
On the first Friday after the New Year's holiday, Jin Ling University's 2018 Annual Person Award Ceremony was held at the new campus auditorium.
On the way to the auditorium, Lu Zhou unexpectedly bumped into an acquaintance.
"Brother Yan?"
"Brother Lu?" Yan Xinjue stopped walking and looked back. His eyes lit up as he asked, "Why are you here?"
"Principal Xu invited me." Lu Zhou walked up and smiled as he said, "Brother, why are you here?"
If he remembered correctly, after he received his graduation certificate, Yan Xinjue also graduated from Academician Lu and received his PhD.
After that, he received a fellowship from CERN, the European Center for Nuclear Research. He then went to Switzerland and began to work on synchrotron radiation sources and electron injectors for X-ray free electron lasers. From pure theoretical physics research, he began to work on the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) and the future Large Hadron Collider (FCC).
Later on, because the two's research fields didn't overlap and they were quite busy, they rarely contacted each other.
Now that Lu Zhou met Yan Xinjue at the Jin Ling University campus, he suddenly felt a sense of familiarity.
Yan Xinjue smiled and said, "I just came back to China a few days ago. It's the Annual Person Award Ceremony, so I came over for dinner. Oh yeah, I heard you plan on returning to China. "
Lu Zhou smiled and nodded.
"Yeah, latest this year. After I finish my work at Princeton, I plan on resigning and going back to Jin Ling University to teach. What about you? Are your studies and work at CERN going well? "
Yan Xinjue sighed and buried his chin in his scarf as he said, "There are too many nutty people, the pressure is huge. Every day there is like an alarm clock."
Lu Zhou deeply sympathized with Yan Xinjue's sigh.
After all, CERN was the holy temple of theoretical physics, so it was normal to have nutty people …
Lu Zhou changed the topic and asked in a casual tone, "Has there been any interesting discoveries at CERN recently?"
Yan Xinjue: "Not recently, the laboratories there are basically closed. However, at the end of August, we successfully observed the decay of the Higgs boson into a pair of bottom quarks. This is definitely an exciting discovery. Especially according to the observation data on the ATLAS and CMS detectors, the confidence level exceeded 5σ for the first time! At the end of the year, almost half of the big names in theoretical physics went to Switzerland … I thought I would see you there, but you didn't go. "
"I happened to be in Stockholm at the time," said Lu Zhou as he smiled embarrassedly.
Yan Xinjue patted his head and realized what was going on.
"I almost forgot, you even won the Nobel Prize … Oh, should I change the way I call you in the future?"
Yan Xinjue was so nutty that he was embarrassed to call Yan Xinjue his junior.
Lu Zhou smiled and joked, "Sure, you can ask Old Lu to kick me out."
Yan Xinjue: "Don't, forget about it. Old Lu might hate you and kick me out."
After Lu Zhou arrived at the auditorium, he greeted Principal Xu, Academician Lu, and Professor Tang. He then walked to the guest seats under the guidance of the staff.
Not long after, a youthful dance song opened the curtain of the award ceremony.
Lu Zhou looked at the girls from the Academy of Fine Arts and thought back to his past two awards ceremonies. He applauded and could not help but feel emotional.
"It's been so many years, it's still the same youthful dance. I didn't expect it to never change."
Yan Xinjue, who was sitting next to him, coughed and said, "It's been 15 years, it hasn't been that long."
Emm …
I think so?
He did not know if it was because of Shi Fei's wedding, or because of the Fields Prize and the Nobel Prize, or maybe it was just his mentality that had changed …
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