Chapter 597: Arriving at the University of Oxford

The red Porsche merged into the traffic and headed toward the University of Oxford.

Hearing Xu Qingzhou's emotion, Su Kewei smiled and said: "With your current situation, you can easily get a new one, right?"

"Money is needed everywhere now, how dare I spend money so recklessly." Xu Qingzhou shook his head.

Unlike other experimental projects, he did not accept corporate investment and was responsible for the funds himself. The only external funding was 20 million subsidized by the state.

This is a drop in the bucket for a large research institution.

Fortunately, in addition to domestic authorized patent fees, patent fees for secondary authorization and sales of superconducting thin films are still coming in continuously, with an income of about two million US dollars per month.

In October, Zheng Xu had already led people to develop the spin polarization and d-band center regulation technology, and Zero Technology began to follow the patent process.

What is more interesting is.

Since Professor Xiao Chenghan came to the institute, the confidentiality level of the institute has risen slightly, access management has become stricter, electromagnetic shielding walls have been deployed around it to prevent technical parameters from being remotely detected, and anti-drone patrols have been carried out regularly.

Su Kewei nodded and said with some emotion: "Also, you are now the person in charge of a research institute."

5 years, watching the junior brother who was once a freshman achieve such a high achievement is also a magical experience.

Xu Qingzhou shifted the topic to project research: "What research has Wang Wang Shixiong Su been doing these years?"

"The intersection of number theory and algebra, the arithmetic properties of high-dimensional algebraic varieties and their applications in cryptography, and the potential applications of the arithmetic properties of algebraic varieties in asymmetric encryption algorithms."

Su Kewei paused for a moment, and a helpless expression appeared on his face: "Still an assistant professor, responsible for basic courses in mathematics such as abstract algebra, probability theory, etc., and there are several advanced courses such as geometric group theory and mathematical finance. Working abroad is not as glamorous as domestic people say, and I am busy like a dog every day."

Xu Qingzhou understood this point.

In foreign universities, teachers basically start as assistant professors and lecturers, need to accumulate scientific research results, and pass the assessment in five or six years to be promoted to associate professor.

The treatment is very different.

Assistant professors focus on teaching and scientific research accumulation, professional pressure, while associate professors are research-led roles, enjoy tenure and high-quality resources, and have higher academic discourse power.

There will also be exceptions, where the project has made a great breakthrough, such as proving a sub-proposition of a conjecture, so that the position of tenured professor can be granted by breaking the rules.

Otherwise, it is tired and has no scientific research funds, and it is even easy to fall into a vicious circle: no funds, no success, no promotion, and then no funds.

Xu Qingzhou thought for a while and asked: "Constructing algebraic varieties with special L-function properties, verifying their security association with elliptic curve cryptography (ECC)?"

"Tsk tsk, worthy of being a junior brother, amazing. Do you also have research in this area?"

"I learned a little bit when I looked at the materials before."

Xu Qingzhou continued: "Another core problem is developing new encryption protocols based on algebraic varieties to solve the threat of quantum computing to traditional RSA algorithms. Does your research involve this direction?"

"This thing is too difficult."

Su Kewei sighed, shrugged his shoulders and said: "New anti-quantum attack algebraic variety structure... Proving that cracking encryption algorithms is equivalent to solving the HDL problem requires the help of deep theorems in algebraic geometry. It involves interdisciplinary cooperation with computer science teams, and it must cooperate with authoritative experts in this field. With my current energy as a teaching assistant, I can't do it."

"High-dimensional discrete logarithm problem and key generation and encryption algorithm design, the group operation complexity of high-dimensional varieties is far higher than elliptic curves." Xu Qingzhou nodded.

The reason he understands is because he has done related research.

As a big shot in quantum communication, of course, he must understand new encryption schemes for high-dimensional mathematical problems that can resist quantum algorithms. Only by knowing yourself and the enemy can you win every battle.

"The University of Oxford and ARM are cooperating to develop hardware accelerators based on three-dimensional Calabi-Yau varieties. I have read the materials, and high-dimensional algebraic varieties still have very good application prospects."

The two chatted idly. ===== CHAPTER 598 =====