From all-round academic master to chief scientist

A week passed quickly.

Chen Mingkai’s graduation defense has begun.

The doctoral graduation defense of Beijing University is naturally very high in terms of standards, not to mention the defense of a doctoral student in the School of Mathematics.

As the first department of Peking University and the first of the four lunatic asylums, the first thing you have to face in the graduation defense here is the defense committee with very high standards.

Since he is the chief disciple of the famous Academician Lin Xiaolin and the first disciple to graduate, many professors came to participate in this defense. As for the defense committee, they are all academicians of mathematics. In addition to those from our school, there are also From other schools, even Academician Yuan Ya, the president of the Chinese Mathematical Association, also entered the defense group and became one of them.

The reason why so many of them came was largely to see what the level of the disciple Lin Xiao had trained was, and how the level of Lin Xiao's training compared to his own level.

For a scholar with a high level of academic ability, his educational ability is often not equally good, or even worse.

Just like pianists and piano educators, excellent pianists are often trained by excellent piano educators.

Therefore, many people want to see if Lin Xiao has any imperfections from this aspect.

However, there are also some people who want to find fault. After all, there are many people who admire Lin Xiao, and there are also many people who are jealous of Lin Xiao.

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The defense classroom is in a small lecture hall in the School of Mathematics. Considering that there will be many people watching, there are many seats in the back row.

Although the defense has not yet begun, the seats in the back row are basically full.

Among them are teachers and professors, as well as other graduate students and undergraduates who came after hearing the news. The total number is probably close to 200 people. It is obviously also a pressure for the students who are about to defend themselves.

On the podium, Chen Mingkai was working on a PPT, and next to him were his two juniors, Zhao Guodong and Li Min, Lin Xiao's two master's students.

Looking at the people in the audience, Chen Mingkai felt numb.

"It's really amazing. When I defended my master's degree, it was just a conference room, and there were just a few professors. How come my doctoral graduation defense was doubled?"

He couldn't help but vomit his bitterness to his two junior brothers.

Although Zhao Guodong and Li Min were not the ones doing the defending, they were still a little numb at this moment.

"Stop talking, senior brother, after all, you participated in the graduation defense for graduate students. The two of us only participated in the graduation defense for undergraduates. How could we go through such a battle?"

As master students, Zhao Guodong and Li Min will not defend themselves until their third year of graduate school next year, but looking at the scene in front of them, they can't help but feel a burst of pressure for their defense next year.

Good guy, this is simply making things difficult for people like them who specialize in mathematics and lack social interaction.

At this moment, a figure walked in the door, which made them all feel a little at ease.

Their mentor Lin Xiao is here!

Lin Xiao walked in from the door and naturally attracted the attention of everyone in the conference room.

Whether they were those who admired him or those who were jealous of him, they all smiled at him and said hello to him.

After Lin Xiao responded to these greetings, he walked up to his three students with a smile.

"What's wrong? Look at the expressions on the three of you?"

Seeing the serious looks on the three people's faces, Lin Xiao said with a smile.

"Professor, is there...a lot of people here?" Chen Mingkai said helplessly. He had come early, but he watched helplessly as there were more and more people in the lecture hall. Then it was full in the end, and even now there are some people at the door who want to come in, but they probably had to leave after seeing that the seats were full.

Lin Xiao smiled and said: "Oh, what is this? The first academic report your teacher and I gave was at the International Congress of Mathematicians. We still spoke in English, and it was even equivalent to a one-hour plenary report. At that time, it was Thousands of people are watching.”

"This is just a reply, just relax."

Listening to Lin Xiao's words, Chen Mingkai, Zhao Guodong, and Li Min all had expressions on their faces that were almost unbearable.

Well, you are the professor and you are the best.

Lin Xiao smiled, and finally patted Chen Mingkai on the shoulder and said, "Okay, you wrote your thesis yourself, and the content is very good, so don't worry. Do you think there will be any doctoral graduation defense?" How about a paper that can be published in the top four journals in mathematics?"

Chen Mingkai's face showed helplessness. He understood the truth, but he just couldn't stand the crowd.

"Okay, let's not talk about anything else. There are Guodong and Li Min. You two only have one year. By then, you may be in this kind of defense scene, but you have to work hard."

"Yes, Professor."

The two people nodded repeatedly, but the thought that the senior brother's paper in front of them was planned to be sent to the "Annals of Mathematics" gave them the idea of ​​not knowing where their own paper should go.

That is the "Annals of Mathematics". In their mathematical world, it is completely equivalent to hearing that one's senior brother submitted an article to "Nature" or "Science" in other disciplines. This is generally treated as a super boss.

Thinking of this, they seemed to have a determination for their next master's thesis. The pressure would not easily crush them, but the greater possibility of developing it would become their motivation.

Lin Xiao did not understand these situations.

He walked off the podium and walked towards the row of the defense committee. As a tutor, he was naturally not allowed to enter the defense committee.

"Academician Lin, haha, are you here to intercede with us?"

In the defense committee, Academician Yuan Ya said with a smile.

Lin Xiao waved her hands repeatedly, "Of course not, I just came to say hello to you all. By the way, I hope you won't be merciful later. I still have great confidence in me as a student, so you can ask as difficult a question as possible. .”

"Haha, since Academician Lin said so, I won't be polite later."

Yuan Ya said with a smile.

Lin Xiao nodded and said with a smile: "That's good. Speaking of which, Academician Yuan was my defense judge when I was defending my undergraduate degree."

When Yuan Ya heard this, he even laughed, "Academician Lin still remembers it."

"Of course I remember that." Lin Xiao nodded.

However, at this moment, someone next to him suddenly said: "Hey, if Professor Lin is so confident in his students, why not also allow observers like us to ask questions."

Several people were stunned, and turned to look. It was a person sitting in the back who asked.

This man's name is Zhao Xin, who is also a mathematics professor at a well-known domestic university.

He had a smile on his face, and it seemed like the proposal was made casually.

The chairman of the defense committee, Xu Ji, just thought that Zhao Xin made it casually and said, "Professor Zhao, your suggestion is certainly good, but according to our school's thesis defense procedure, the main questions are still Thesis committee, I see, the five of us on the committee will definitely ask enough questions and be competent enough by then. In order to avoid time issues, I’ll forget it.”

Although others can raise questions during the defense, the final decision still lies with the defense committee. After all, the students who will defend next are his own students, so Xu Ji chose to refuse for the sake of stability.

But Zhao Xin waved his hand and said: "Academician Xu, anyway, there is only one student of Academician Lin who will be defending today. It won't take much time. Even if it is delayed, you can stop it."

Seeing that Zhao Xin seemed to be interested in this matter, even though he refused once, he insisted on continuing. This made Xu Ji and the others suspicious, what does this Zhao Xin mean?

At this moment, Lin Xiao spoke: "It's okay. Our defense is also an opportunity for academic exchange. I welcome questions and I also believe that my students can satisfy everyone."

Hearing what Lin Xiao said, Xu Ji no longer struggled. If he continued to refuse, he might get some bad words.

"Okay, Lin Xiao has said so, so let's do it."

"Professor Lin is indeed Professor Lin." Zhao Xin laughed and gave Lin Xiao a thumbs up.

Lin Xiao smiled and didn't care too much. As I said before, as long as the paper is good enough, there is no need to worry about what will happen during the defense.

Without further ado, the time came to nine o'clock, and the graduation defense of Dr. Chen Mingkai began.

Chen Mingkai was quite nervous before, but after starting the defense, he became more comfortable and explained the contents of the paper very clearly.

In addition, his PPT was also done well, which also satisfied several academicians of the defense committee.

However, these advantages are superficial. When several academicians and the attending professors saw the inherent advantages of this paper, they all showed solemn expressions.

This paper is very interesting.

In other words, very valuable.

As for Zhao Xin, his eyes gradually became a bit incredible as he listened to Chen Mingkai's story.

This paper is of such a high level?

Could it be that Lin Xiao was able to teach such outstanding students even in education?

Zhao Xin couldn't believe it.

He was one of the people present who was dissatisfied with Lin Xiao.

And this dissatisfaction comes from not worrying about scarcity, but worrying about inequality. He has always been jealous that Lin Xiao can sit in the Dingguang Research Institute and enjoy what is almost the best treatment in the world, especially since Lin Xiao also So young.

But looking back at himself, the funds he could apply for were so few.

It was based on this dissatisfaction that he came here, wanting to find fault with Lin Xiao's students.

However, he didn't know where to criticize this mathematics paper that could be published in a top journal.

However, his eyes soon brightened.

"Can this student write this kind of paper at this level?"

"I'm afraid it's not all under the guidance of Lin Xiao. This is obviously misleading! Hmm, maybe the secret will be revealed when I ask questions later."

In his opinion, Chen Mingkai could write such a paper only because Lin Xiao taught him step by step. Otherwise, how could he write such a good paper if he relied solely on his own ability?

Can a doctoral thesis be published in the four top journals?

He himself has never published an article, so why can this PhD student publish it?

So he must point this out later.

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