Sometimes, it's just a coincidence.

If Lu Zhou knew what Chairman Swift was thinking at this moment, he would probably gladly accept the nomination from the International Federation of Materials Research Societies and participate in the selection of the annual award of the Federation of Societies.

Honor is not honor, but it is second to him.

If he can make a small contribution to the peace, stability, and joint cooperation between the two countries in the next 10 or even 20 years, he does not recommend a trip to North America.

After all, compared to the vast universe, the little interest on the earth is too small.

In addition, it has been a long time since he has been back to Princeton, and Lu Zhou still misses his old friends.

Unfortunately, however, the International Federation of Materials Research Societies did not hint at this in the nomination email.

Therefore, when Assistant Zhao brought the email to Lu Zhou, he just glanced at it and spoke.

"Write a letter back for me, push it off."

Thinking that he had heard it wrong, Zhao Huan was stunned and looked at Lu Zhou in disbelief.

"Push, push?"

Lu Zhou: "Hmm. ”

Zhao Huan looked at Lu Zhou a little bewildered and said, "But, but this is the nomination letter of the International Federation of Materials Research Societies, and the annual award of the Federation of Societies should be very important, right?" ”

That's a $100,000 prize.

Although he knew that his boss was no longer short of money, Zhao Huan still felt a little sorry for him.

Lu Zhou replied casually: "It is precisely because of the importance that I hope they can consider more young scholars." ”

Although this annual award of the Federation of Societies is also a very valuable award, it is still far from the Nobel Prize. With the aura that is now wrapped around his body, even if he wins another Nobel Prize, it doesn't mean much, let alone an annual award from a federation of societies.

At this time, Lu Zhou suddenly noticed the embarrassed expression on Zhao Huan's face, and immediately understood what she was worried about, and a trace of surprise appeared on his face.

"In this case, I will write this reply myself, so I won't trouble you."

Hearing this, although Zhao Huan still felt sorry for him, he was relieved after all.

After all, if such a key thing is written in place, it will be fine, if something goes wrong and Academician Lu's meaning is not fully expressed, then she will have to take the blame.

Asked Zhao Huan to prepare for his class first, Lu Zhou opened the computer, logged in to the mailbox of the office, and began to edit the reply letter to the International Federation of Materials Research Societies.

In about two or three lines, Lu Zhou briefly thanked the International Federation of Materials Research Societies for his nomination, and then politely and tactfully expressed his willingness to withdraw from the annual award......

"The implicit density functional method was a theory of computational materials that I came up with by accident while working on carbon materials, and I didn't expect to achieve much credit with it until then...... Of course, not now. ”

"As I've said in previous interviews, it's meaningless to give me this award than someone like me, who has lost his thirst for honor and money, and who only wants to reveal more about the mysteries of the universe in his lifetime."

"I'll find someone to do the report on the implicit functional density theory, but forget about the medals, I hope you can think more about those young people who have more potential than me and need to be recognized."

"They need these honors more than I do, and their careers need support even more!"

Knocking down the last punctuation, Lu Zhou checked the email from beginning to end, and after making sure that there was no error in the meaning, he knocked the send button.

Then, after thinking for a while, he took out his mobile phone and opened the address book, and called his little apprentice.

"Hey."

“…… Feed? ”

It was quiet on the other end of the phone, and Han Mengqi's voice was also very quiet, it seemed that it should be in the library or something similar.

"What are you doing?"

"Library Self-Study ...... What's wrong? ”

Lu Zhou, who was turning a ballpoint pen in his hand and leaning on the office chair, said, "Well, there are some things that may have to be asked to you, do you have any arrangements recently?" ”

"Huh? Arrangement, no, what's wrong-"

The voice on the other end of the phone suddenly became a little flustered for some reason, so that he almost didn't suppress his voice, but although Lu Zhou felt strange, he didn't think much about it and spoke.

"There's a computational materials science seminar, if you're interested, can you go for me?"

"Count, computational materials science presentation?"

The moment she heard this request, Han Mengqi was slightly stunned, and her restless heartbeat finally calmed down, but then her brows couldn't help frowning slightly.

"No problem, no problem...... But I've moved on to pure mathematics, right? Computational materials science hasn't touched ...... for a long time."

"It's okay, it's not a conflict, not to mention that you can also review what you've learned before, and forget all the things I taught you, it's a pity," Lu Zhou smiled and continued, "You have more than a month to prepare, and if there's anything you can't do, you can ask me." Ah, but this is still voluntary, if you really don't want to, forget it. ”

Although he is a mentor, Lu Zhou rarely considers himself a mentor, and most of the time he communicates with his students in a consultative tone.

If Han Mengqi was really not interested, he wouldn't force it too much. Although it is a pity that this opportunity to make a name for itself in the international arena is a bit of a shame, personal choices must be respected.

As if she was worried about something, Han Mengqi sighed with a bit of a headache after struggling for a while.

"Okay...... I'll give it a try. ”

During this time, she has been studying the transcendence of the value of the Riemann zeta function at the point of an odd integer number, which is also the doctoral project assigned to her by Lu Zhou when she was under Lu Zhou's door.

However, the difficulty of this problem, as its name suggests, is not as BT as the Riemann hypothesis, but it is by no means an easy task to solve.

They agreed to grant her a Ph.D. from themselves as long as she could make any effective — or — — progress in a journal in the first section.

And if she can't do that, she'll never want to graduate from herself. Even if she is the cousin of the senior sister, Lu Zhou will definitely not show mercy to this point.

Of course, Lu Zhou also left her a way back, that is, to continue the research of computational materials science.

It's just that Han Mengqi has never considered this retreat, and she doesn't plan to consider it at all.

Now that the research has reached a dead end, it's better to go out for a walk and change your brain at the same time......

Thinking like this, Han Mengqi opened her mouth and continued to ask.

"It's convenient to ask, where did you go to make a report?"

Lu Zhou said with a hearty smile: "It should be in Boston, this academic report is at the April meeting of the International Federation of Materials Research Societies, and I will send you the relevant information of the conference in a while." Don't worry about travel expenses, first-class air tickets and five-star hotels are fully reimbursed, remember to have fun, and if you meet my old friends, remember to say hello to them for me. ”

Han Mengqi: "......"

International Federation of Materials Research Societies ......

I didn't expect it to be such an important meeting.

She suddenly regretted that she had agreed so hastily.