However, all good things must come to an end. After all, Fefferman was the head of the mathematics department. There were a lot of things in Princeton waiting for Fefferman to deal with.
After Lu Zhou sent Fefferman to the airport, he watched as Fefferman carried his suitcase to the security checkpoint.
"Have a safe trip."
"I will." Fefferman smiled and made a farewell gesture. He continued, "If there are any new discoveries, please be sure to contact me."
Lu Zhou smiled and nodded.
"Of course."
Over the next few days, Lu Zhou basically went back and forth between Zhongshan International, the Institute for Advanced Study, and his Jin Ling University mathematics department office. Since the number theory and computational materials science classes had been completed, there was nothing to worry about at the school until next month's exam week.
Over the past few days, Lu Zhou was either researching his own research project or guiding his students to complete their academic tasks.
To be honest, he felt a sense of accomplishment as he watched the little sapling he had cultivated grow healthily.
Mathematics department office.
Lu Zhou called Han Mengqi to his desk.
"I have good news for you."
Han Mengqi looked at the mysterious expression on Lu Zhou's face and asked suspiciously.
"… What good news?"
"This morning, I received an email from the ACS-Nano editorial department. Your thesis has passed the review!" Lu Zhou had a smile on his face as he said, "Congratulations, you're now a scholar with a top thesis."
The second Han Mengqi heard this news, she was stunned for a second. She suddenly had a look of joy on her face.
"Really?"
"Of course it's true." Lu Zhou smiled and said, "This is the result of your hard work for the past six months … What do you think? Are you excited? "
Han Mengqi nodded excitedly.
"Yeah! Super excited! "
ACS-Nano had an impact factor of around 14. As one of the top journals in the materials science field, it was not easy to pass a thesis.
The reviewer for Han Mengqi's thesis was the deputy editor, Ali Javey. He was also a big name in materials science. Lu Zhou exchanged emails with him at an academic conference.
Although the reason why the thesis was passed so quickly might be because his name was on the corresponding author list, the quality of the thesis itself was unquestionable.
After all, fame was only one aspect, the academic community was ultimately determined by strength.
When Lu Zhou saw how excited Han Mengqi was, he was sincerely happy for her.
All in all, the students that he had brought along were not bad.
In addition to Han Mengqi's thesis, two PhD theses on number theory and computational materials science were also published in SIAM-revie, which had an impact factor of 4, and Nano-Today, which had an impact factor of 17.
Wu Shuimu was ecstatic to be able to submit a thesis with an impact factor of over 10.
Even though this thesis was a nanomaterials project at the Jinling Institute for Advanced Study, he still put in a lot of effort into this project.
As for He Changwen's thesis, other than the fact that Lu Zhou guided him a few times, he basically completed the rest of his thesis independently.
The impact factor of mathematics journals was generally low. Also, the impact factor was not linked to the actual impact factor, so the impact factor did not reflect the actual level of the journal. Even though SIAM-revie wasn't one of the top four journals, it was considered one of the best journals in the Chinese Academy of Sciences.
There was also a thesis by Feng Jin, which had an impact factor of around 1-2.
This thesis was still in the peer review stage, but the results would be available in early June.
As for the other three mathematics and computational materials science graduate students, Lu Zhou didn't blame them for not being able to complete the thesis.
After all, there were differences between people. Not to mention that Jin Ling University's student pool couldn't compare to Princeton's. He never expected his students to be talented, as long as they could complete their tasks step by step, that was enough.
Lu Zhou went to the cafeteria to eat a bowl of barbecued meat on rice. When he returned to his office, he saw that it was almost time, so he changed into a handsome suit. He sat on the sofa in his office and accepted an interview appointment from the British Nature Weekly.
He had received a lot of interview invitations, both from domestic media outlets and foreign media outlets.
Lu Zhou knew that the public was curious about his research content, so he selectively accepted some interview appointments from qualified media outlets.
For example, Nature Weekly was one of them.
This kind of publication under Nature was much more professional than the Daily Mail, even if it wasn't academic in nature. At least when it came to reporting on academic figures and major scientific breakthroughs, this type of magazine had a certain degree of seriousness.
When the Nature Weekly reporter and photographer arrived at the mathematics department, Lin Yuxiang warmly invited the two into her office and poured them two cups of coffee.
Belinda turned on the camera, adjusted the recording pen, and sat in a dignified posture. She smiled and spoke.
"Hello, Mr. Lu Zhou."
"Hello."
Belinda smiled and said, "Do you remember five years ago? We met once at the CERN headquarters in Switzerland. At that time, you were an intern at the European Nuclear Research Conference. I interviewed you because of the discovery of the 750 GeV characteristic peak. "
Lu Zhou smiled and said, "No wonder I thought you looked familiar when you first walked in."
Belinda smiled and said, "I still remember Professor Grayer from CERN praising your talent in physics. What made you embark on the path of mathematics?"
"In the beginning, maybe it was because my major was mathematics." Lu Zhou thought for a bit and said, "After in-depth research, I became interested, so I wanted to study mathematics."
Belinda asked in surprise, "That's it?"
Lu Zhou smiled and nodded. "Yes, that's it."
Belinda flipped through the notebook in her hand and said, "So far, the general solution of the Yang-Mills equations has been found. According to my understanding, there is still one most critical problem that hasn't been solved, which is the Yang-Mills existence and mass gap. Many physicists have said that whoever can solve this problem has the hope of picking up the most dazzling holy grail in modern physics … What I want to ask is, why do they say that? And, what is the difficulty of solving this problem? "
This question wasn't easy to answer.
After all, most people didn't understand what the Yang-Mills existence and mass gap was, let alone understand the difficulty.
After thinking for a bit, Lu Zhou spoke.
"If we want to understand the strong interaction Yang-Mills existence and mass gap, it means that we have to explore the world of hadrons under the strong interaction described by the third-order special unitary group gauge theory. For this unknown world, the minimum frequency required for the high-energy light beam to explore it is the minimum mass times the square of the speed of light/Planck's constant. "
Lu Zhou paused for a second and continued.
"Referring to the minimum mass value in the experiment, the order of magnitude of this minimum frequency is 10 ^ 24Hz. Such a high interaction coupling degree indicates that the world of hadrons is completely different from the world we are familiar with. Understanding a world that we are not familiar with is a meaningful and challenging thing in itself. The changes it can bring to our civilization are no less than the discovery of a habitable galaxy. "
"In short, we will understand how massless bricks stack up with particles, and how the four fundamental forces we are familiar with can be unified in a field we don't understand."
Belinda had a surprised look on her face as she continued to speak.
"So your goal is to unify the four fundamental forces?"
Lu Zhou smiled and said, "This isn't my goal, this is the goal of the entire physics community."
Belinda immediately asked, "Then how do you think we should achieve it?"
Lu Zhou thought for a bit and said, "Before unifying gravity with the other three fundamental forces, I think it is important to achieve internal unification between the three fundamental forces.
"The Yang-Mills equations are the first step to the Grand Unified Theory, and establishing the relationship between the strong interaction and electromagnetic force will be an extremely important piece of the puzzle, or rather, the last piece of the puzzle to unify the three fundamental forces … After all, Weinberg and others' electroweak unification theory has unified electromagnetic force and weak interaction by adding a Higgs field to it."
Belinda had a thoughtful look on her face as she continued to speak.
"So in your theory, the electromagnetic force will act like a bond, uniting the weak interaction and the strong interaction?"
"Yes." Lu Zhou leaned back in his chair and said jokingly, "Then I'll take two of its friends to find the most unsociable force of gravity … But I don't think I'll ever see that day."
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