Chapter 480: A Half-Baked Team is Assembled Like This

August 22nd, Xu Qingzhou confirmed with the Academic Affairs Office the course to be opened—Oscillatory Integrals and Their Applications.

Oscillatory integrals can handle integrands with high-frequency oscillations. Xu Qingzhou had deeply understood this when doing local smoothness research before. In the field of mathematics, harmonic analysis and partial differential equations, or number theory, deal with oscillatory terms in L-functions or Z-functions, used for the derivation of zero distribution or asymptotic formulas.

And in the field of physics, this thing is also related to classical wave phenomena, quantum mechanics and quantum theory, and signal processing.

In the morning, Xu Qingzhou carried his laptop out of the car, and before walking a few steps, he saw a familiar figure at the intersection.

Former student Sun Simin; the little girl had become much more steady compared to a year ago.

"Professor."

Sun Simin also saw Xu Qingzhou and walked over to greet him.

"Didn't go home for summer vacation?" Xu Qingzhou nodded in response; in August, undergraduates had long since gone on vacation.

"No, I stayed here to work a summer job."

Sun Simin was holding a copy of "Brief Introduction to Physical Vapor Deposition" in her arms.

"Have economic pressure?"

Sun Simin shook her head embarrassedly and said: "I'm just relatively free, looking for something to do."

"One day in the future, you will find that the summer jobs you did before were just the water that got into your brain."

Xu Qingzhou joked; he had also worked summer jobs before, but later found that the significance wasn't great, and it was better to prioritize investing in himself, reading books, and doing a few problems.

As for himself, his parents were both civil servants, and the family couldn't be said to be very wealthy, but there were still some small savings, and two or three years of studying abroad was no problem.

By the PhD stage, he already had quite a lot of income, so he had even fewer worries about the economy.

Of course, this depends on individual choices; for many people, working a summer job is also a good opportunity to increase social experience.

"Ah?"

Xu Qingzhou smiled and said: "If you are not short of money, reading books to supplement your knowledge reserve is more useful than working a summer job."

"Oh, I've remembered it, thank you Professor."

Sun Simin followed Xu Qingzhou and asked cautiously: "Professor, does your team have a suitable candidate?"

"Don't be so cautious."

Xu Qingzhou smiled lightly: "Still recruiting, if there's really no one in the end, at worst I'll do it myself."

He had already thought about it; in the last week, if there was still no one, he would start the experiment directly and slowly look for suitable members.

"Oh."

Sun Simin nodded, followed Xu Qingzhou for a few steps, seemed to have made a certain determination, and gathered the courage to say: "Professor, what do you think of me?"

Xu Qingzhou stopped, turned to look at Sun Simin, and frowned slightly: "You?"

Seeing Xu Qingzhou staring at her, Sun Simin's face flushed, and she immediately became nervous, waving her hands and saying: "I... I was just saying it casually..."

"It's not impossible."

"Ah?"

Sun Simin raised her head, her expression stunned; she didn't expect Xu Qingzhou to agree just like that, confirming: "Can I participate in your experiment?"

"I will arrange a small quiz, you have to pass it before you can," Xu Qingzhou nodded; as long as she can guard the experiment, to a certain extent, there is no big difference between a PhD and an undergraduate.

Moreover, Sun Simin is very steady, and her ability is not bad.

"Quiz?"

Sun Simin was a bit nervous.

"Don't worry, it won't be too difficult."

Xu Qingzhou pondered and said: "I will send you an agreement, which is about intellectual property transfer, to avoid conflict with MIT's rules. You sign it first, and as for the quiz, I will tell you in a few days."

The agreement and such, Song Yao had already looked at it, and there was nothing wrong with it.

"Okay, I'll go prepare now!"

Sun Simin nodded excitedly.

Xu Qingzhou watched the girl's running back and couldn't help but smile, sighing: "There, the first team member has appeared."

He had interviewed so many people, but didn't expect the first member to appear like this.

The next day.

Xu Qingzhou saw Sun Simin, who had made an appointment to sign the agreement, as soon as he got out of the car. At the same time, there was also a white and chubby young man.

Xu Qingzhou hadn't opened his mouth yet, and Ma Ma Ersi was already rubbing his hands and saying: "Professor, if you are willing, you will directly have a second assistant."

"..."

Ma Ersi, the research group suddenly had two more people.

Xu Qingzhou also had a good impression of Ma Ma Ersi.

This kid has a talent for mathematics, and his style is also very obvious.

Xu Qingzhou had once given a problem related to the Riemann hypothesis.

Ma Ma Ersi had a three-page proof process, the logic chain was concise and clear, and he was particularly good at using the most basic formulas to solve problems.

Friday morning, Xu Qingzhou met the third member of the team at a cafe.

Bang~

The cafe door was pushed open, and a figure had already rushed in front of Xu Qingzhou.

Xu Qingzhou was looking at materials, raised his head, looked at the sweating young man, paused, and then said: "Mr. Carson, see you again."

"Good morning, Professor Xu."

The young man panted heavily, looking like he had run over.

Bex Carson was the young man who had asked Xu Qingzhou about the physical proof method of the Riemann hypothesis in class, hoping to establish the Riemann system.

PhD student in April, now just graduated.

Speaking of which, if he hadn't explained physics to Bex Carson back then, Xu Qingzhou might not have had a flash of inspiration, thought of using the properties of the Riemann Z-function to perform reverse calculation on the density function, and finally proved the Riemann hypothesis.

Carson wasn't restrained either, sat down, and gulped down two mouthfuls of water handed over by the waiter.

Seeing Xu Qingzhou looking at him, he explained: "Sorry, just came out of the project group, and found out I was going to be late."

"Hmm?"

Xu Qingzhou's gaze paused; this meaning, he already had a project group?

"Don't worry, I've already fired my boss."

Carson laughed.

Boss, should refer to the supervisor.

Xu Qingzhou was a bit ashamed; feeling this guy just jumped over from another project group, he couldn't help but look outside the door, wondering how to run if Carson's boss came with a knife.

"If you don't mind, can you tell me your situation first."

He put away his thoughts, seeing Carson's breath calm down, and decided to get to the point early.

Carson nodded, sat straight, and said: "I graduated in June, and have been following my supervisor to do the quantum Hall effect project..."

Bex Carson engaged in quantum mechanics research, and after graduation, he went directly into his supervisor Balder Vasquez's research group. A few days ago, he suddenly saw Xu Qingzhou's research project and had the idea of "jumping ship."

And these days Balder Vasquez let him go.

Speaking to the end, Carson sighed and said: "I squatted at my supervisor's door for three days before he finally agreed to let me leave."

"..."

The process is a bit tortuous.

Xu Qingzhou clicked his tongue; three months ago, he had communicated with Carson and had no doubts about Carson's ability. He said in a deep voice: "Before you join, I think it's necessary to make the situation of the project clear to you first."

"Please speak."

"I plan to do substrate-free Nb3Sn thin film, hoping to break through traditional limitations... that is to say, plus you, we only have four people now, and two are undergraduates in their sophomore year."

Xu Qingzhou explained the project overview and personnel composition in detail.

People jumped over, so he had to make it clear; if they weren't willing, maybe it wouldn't be too late to go back now.

"This..."

Carson squinted, "More exciting than I imagined!"

"..."

"Welcome."

Xu Qingzhou was speechless, shook hands with Carson, paused, and still asked: "So, why did you choose this 'most unreliable project'?"

Just because it's exciting?

"Because..."

Carson was full of enthusiasm: "I believe we will definitely be able to create miracles."

So "chuuni" (middle school syndrome).

Xu Qingzhou fell into silence; now it seems that there isn't a reliable one in the team.

Friday, all agreements were signed.

Xu Qingzhou, Bex Carson, Sun Simin, Ma Ma Ersi, this also meant that the research group composed of four people was officially established.

Although, no matter how you look at it, it looks a bit half-baked...

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 481 =====