This counterintuitive move made him feel as if not going to Xilin would ruin his life forever!
He had not even snapped out of his sudden windfall when the call ca through.
"Heh... picking on the soft ones, huh?"
Considering the situation, the university had more than a dozen academicians; he couldn't go to the eting alone, he had to take several of them with him.
Their cooperation with the Optoelectronics Institute had always received strong support from the university.
If they wanted to continue this fruitful cooperation, they needed to make a real effort.
It wouldn't be too much to arrange for two academicians from the Optoelectronics Institute to accompany him to the Capital, would it?
Otherwise, did they not want the photolithography machine project to proceed smoothly?
Xu Dajiang could also be brought along; wasn't this guy impressive? Taking him to the Capital this ti, he wondered if the old slick could be as arrogant as he was in front of him!
As for Qiao Ze and Li Jian Gao...
Better not.
Really, if he took those two to the Capital and they started arguing, it would be a different matter altogether.
Xu Dajiang lacked ambition, but he still had his own.
...
At the sa ti, at the Xilin Institute of Mathematics.
Having returned to the institute office, Qiao Ze did not concern himself with Dou Dou's performances.
It would be normal for the little thing to do well; if Dou Dou couldn't even manage such a simple task, then Qiao Ze would start to question its purpose of existence.
He also had his own business to attend to; he spent the whole morning getting up to speed on the recent progress of various tasks at the institute since his departure.
Primarily because Li Jian Gao wanted him to et with the students.
Before inspiring the students, he needed to first understand their current progress.
Edward Witten felt that Qiao Ze was not strict enough, yet in this regard, Qiao Ze had always been very strict.
Strict enough to have no friends.
The eting with the students was scheduled for 3:30 pm. Originally, Qiao Ze wanted to do it later, not to disrupt the doctoral students' group project progress, but he had to adjust the ti due to other commitnts.
Five figures appeared promptly outside Qiao Ze's office, even five minutes early.
And they stood politely at the door and began to knock.
Word had already spread throughout the yard; before entering Qiao Ze's office, one should not only knock, but it was also best to wait for a response before opening the door, or else the consequences would be dire.
"Co in."
As Qiao Ze's voice sounded, the group filed into the office and stood in a line before him.
The scene was actually a bit discordant.
The five people standing looked a good deal more mature than Qiao Ze.
Sitting behind his office desk, Qiao Ze first glanced up at the five people to get a ntal snapshot of their facial features before asking, "Who is Wang Yu?"
The other four imdiately looked enviously at the tall, thin man wearing glasses, standing second from the left.
This guy's na was already known by Qiao?
"That's , Professor Qiao," said Wang Yu.
"You are a student of Professor Zhang Chunlei. He once enlightened and thus has my gratitude. Therefore, I will be stricter with you, and you should get used to it," Qiao Ze said to Wang Yu.
"No problem, Professor Qiao, I can adapt and will work hard," Wang Yu quickly declared.
Although he was a targeted training student who would definitely return to Jiangcheng University after graduation,
how exactly he would return and how much attention he would receive afterwards depended on whether Qiao Ze was willing to write him a letter of recomndation after graduation.
Theoretically, he was actually Li Jian Gao's doctoral student, although Li Jian Gao had made it clear that he wouldn't interfere academically and left everything up to Qiao Ze, only Li Jian Gao's na would still appear on the graduation certificate.
Whether he could get a recomndation letter from Qiao Ze depended on his performance.
"Hmm," Qiao Ze nodded and then called out the other four nas: "Li Chengcheng, Xu Yue, Han Zhendong, Fan Yuming..."
And then he hesitated...
He had actually thought about what to say to the doctoral students yesterday, just like how he would inspire his roommates.
But when the ti ca, Qiao Ze found he still wasn't accustod to initiating conversation.
After all, it wasn't like giving an academic presentation where you just have to explain the research content clearly to everyone.
Every interaction he had with his roommates in life had always been initiated by the other party.
So when four pairs of expectant eyes looked towards Qiao Ze, he also quietly scanned the four people and then asked, "Do you have anything you want to say?"
The effect was good; the four were instantly stunned.
Li had told them that Professor Qiao wasn't very good at communication.
Clearly, this statent had not accurately conveyed just how bad his communication skills were.
Luckily, being PhD candidates, they were quick-witted; soone imdiately spoke up: "Reporting to Professor Qiao, I'm Xu Yue. I will also be strict with myself and ensure I complete the tasks you assign with quality and efficiency during my PhD studies."
Qiao Ze glanced at the first to speak, Xu Yue, and nodded.
The others quickly caught on: "I'm Han Zhendong from Xilin Jiaotong University. I will definitely not disappoint you."
"I'm Li Chengcheng; my advisor said I should listen to you."
"I'm Fan Yuming…"
Qiao Ze nodded; that was good, he had t all five students.
"Well, good. For the next year, just work as usual with the Qiao Algebra research team. When it's ti for you to publish papers next year, I will choose topics for you. During your doctoral phase, each of you needs to publish three papers as the first author in the Princeton 'Mathematics Annual' or equivalent mathematics journals.
One reason is that currently, there is no dostic science journal equivalent to 'New Discoveries in Mathematics and Physics' which we at the Xilin Institute of Mathematics host, but by the ti you need to publish your dissertation, Li should no longer be the editor of the journal. You can directly publish in our journal. Do you understand?"
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