On the morning of November 14th local time in Miami, the United States, it dawned very late. If you look down from the sky, you will be surprised to find that the entire city, as well as the area within sight, is covered by a layer of white snowflakes.

cover.

Yes, it is snowflakes. As the southernmost city in the United States, Miami, whose average winter temperature has always been around 25 degrees Celsius, finally received its first snow in 47 years with the invasion of the "Little Ice Age".

The snow was not heavy, it only fell for two or three hours, but it was enough to make cotton-like snowflakes float all over every piece of land, and then turned hard when blown by the howling north wind.

The arrival of winter snow has brought some chaos to this tourist city that has been particularly popular in recent months. However, because it received early warning in advance, the city of Miami has prepared a large amount of food, winter clothes and other cold-proof materials, and the power supply has also been improved.

It is sufficient so that people in Miami who are not used to temperatures below 0 degrees Celsius can continue to live their small lives safely under the heat of air conditioning.

The tourists who come here to "take shelter from the cold" have no complaints about this. After all, compared to the harsh weather in the north where there is a huge snowstorm and the average temperature is only -41 degrees Celsius, Miami can be said to be a "comfortable paradise."

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For the guests who came to the International Congress of Mathematicians, especially the mathematicians who had given a 45-minute, one-hour report on stage, they did not care whether it was snowing in Miami or not. They only focused on the announcement of the grand prize, which would begin in an hour.

, for this reason, while the vast majority of people are still nestling in warm beds and enjoying the rare warm and lazy time in winter, these mathematicians are feeling uneasy, nervous and anxious, and simply come down from the rooms of the Miami Hotel early.

, went straight to the venue on the first floor.

This year's IMU awards ceremony will be held here.

The lobby of the Miami Hotel has long been crowded with reporters who braved the biting north wind. They wandered around in twos and threes and saw famous mathematicians requesting interviews. For example, Faltins, Deligne, Wyatt, etc.

The veteran members of the IMU, such as Elsewhere and Feiffman, were even more surrounded by reporters.

The most frequently asked questions by reporters are of course related to awards.

This International Congress of Mathematicians will also award 2 to 4 Fields Medals, as well as medals from top awards such as the Chan Medal, the Gauss Medal, the Abacus Medal, and the Lilavati Medal.

The Chern Medal is a lifetime achievement award. It is often awarded to grandparents. There is only one place. Most people don’t pay much attention to it. Only the Fields Medal, which symbolizes the highest award in the Mesozoic era in mathematics, is the majority of 30-year-olds.

The dream goal of a mathematician by the age of 40.

IMU's confidentiality work is still very good this year. Although countless people want to know the final list of winners, even the all-pervasive reporters and many well-connected veteran mathematicians are unable to get any precise information.

We can only wait until the announcement of the awards ceremony at 9:00 to find out.

The more no one knows about it, the more it attracts the media and the public to make various speculations. Several large social platforms on the Internet have launched prediction voting. Among them, the most attention-grabbing vote is the great mathematician of Xia State, Qin Ke.

What awards will the academician and Academician Ning Qingjun receive?

Option one, IMU will award the second Fields Medal to them. Reason: Their achievements and level deserve IMU to make an exception for them. The proportion of voters in favor: 55.8%.

Option two, IMU will award the Chern Prize to them in advance. Reason: The Wolf Prize in Mathematics is also the "grandfather and grandma prize", but it has been awarded to them in advance. The Chen Prize is similar to the Wolf Prize in Mathematics and is also very special.

It is possible to award them to them in advance. The proportion of voters in favor: 36.2%.

Option three, IMU will set up a special award for them. Reason: Their achievements are unparalleled, so they should have special treatment. The proportion of voters in favor: 7.9%.

Option four, a big upset, they will return empty-handed, and IMU will let them be the award guests. Reason: They no longer need awards to encourage them, and IMU would rather award the awards to other people who need it more. The number of votes in favor accounted for

Ratio: 0.1%.

From these votes involving more than 10 million people, we can see the public sentiment. However, all IMU awards are voted by the judges. Even the top management of IMU cannot change the results, so the final result can only wait until it is finally announced.

I only found out when I saw the list.

While there was chaos outside the venue and the mathematicians seated inside the venue were restless, Qin Ke and Ning Qingyun were still in their hotel rooms.

In order to ensure safety and avoid being chased by reporters, Wei Feng asked them to enter through the special passage prepared by the Miami Hotel five minutes before the closing ceremony was about to begin. It was still early to leave for the venue. The two of them had eaten

After breakfast, I changed into my clothes and waited in the room.

Qin Ke routinely receives work emails. Now with the arrival of the "Little Ice Age", his mailbox receives dozens of report emails from meteorological centers around the world every day. Of course, there are also Qingmu University Fluid Mechanics Laboratory, Global Extreme

Various emails from the climate big data advanced analysis team and the Xiaguo Extreme Climate Disaster Response Command Center.

In addition, he will receive monthly letters from Qing Ning Plant Cultivation Laboratory, Qing Ning Quantum Computing Laboratory, Yuanzhou New Energy and Freshwater Resource Renewal Utilization Technology Research Center, Qing Ning Technology, and Qing Ning Student Aid Foundation.

Report request email. Students will also contact him via email from time to time to report their study progress and submit the first draft of their thesis.

These matters range from urgent to complex, and some are simple. Qin Ke usually handles them personally. Only with his thinking speed can he read hundreds of pages of reports in a very short time and give a reply.

Opinion.

Qin Ke handed over all the emails and papers sent by students to Ning Qingyun. Qin Ke had already processed yesterday's emails before going to bed, and the ones he was dealing with now were sent while he was sleeping due to jet lag.

mail.

Most of these emails were sent from the Xia Kingdom. The Xia Kingdom has now entered the "Little Ice Age". The snow disaster in the Northeast is the most severe. Although it is slightly better than Alaska in the United States, the snow and ice also block roads and traffic is at a standstill.

, many cities have activated emergency plans and suspended work and production. Except for disaster prevention and response staff, the rest of the people stayed at home as much as possible to avoid extreme low temperatures.

Qin Ke looked through these emails, feeling heavy but also somewhat relieved.

No matter what, in the face of unavoidable natural disasters, because of his early warnings based on research results, the disaster prevention and response measures he formulated, and the full operation of the "Xia Kingdom Extreme Climate Disaster Response Command Center", the Xia Kingdom's heavy snowstorm areas were

People's lives and property have been protected to the maximum extent - isn't this the time when scientists should be most gratified and honored?

It only took Qin Ke half an hour to reply to all the emails. He stretched himself and looked at the time. It would be time to leave for the venue in ten minutes.

Turning around, I saw Ning Qingyun sitting by the bed, looking at her phone. I originally thought she was looking at the photos of Xiaoxiao and Zhengzheng - they hadn't seen their two children for so long, and Ning Qingyun and Qin Ke missed them both.

I often pull out photos and videos of the kids to watch.

But Qin Ke soon noticed that Ning Qingyun seemed a little unhappy.

"Wife, what's wrong? Who made you angry?" Qin Ke was a little curious. Ning Qingyun, who had become more gentle after becoming a mother, rarely showed such an obvious unhappy look.

Ning Qingyun looked up: "Huh? Have you finished replying to the email?"

"It's done. I only received 19 emails from early morning to this morning. Half an hour is enough. Why are you unhappy? Come on, hubby." Qin Ke went over and hugged his wife's soft and slender waist, and pulled himself

She put her face close to her and rubbed Ning Qingyun's pretty face that was as smooth as top-grade white porcelain.

Because Ning Qingyun never puts on makeup, she doesn't have to worry about her makeup getting stained by such intimate gestures.

Ning Qingyun was amused by him and burst out laughing. She gave him a sweet two-punch: "Okay, I'm fine. I just got a little angry when I saw a piece of news."

"What's the news?" Qin Ke sat next to her and leaned over to look at her mobile phone screen.

"Li Lin forwarded it to me before, about a dozen graduate students who jointly reported their supervisor. Many netizens on the Internet also forwarded this incident on the scarf and @my and your accounts. You haven't worn the scarf these days, so you didn't pay attention.

Are you there?"

"Graduate student reports supervisor?" Qin Ke was surprised. Such things are rare. Whether at home or abroad, supervisors have a lot of power to determine students' futures. At least they have a lot of say in students' degree certificates and graduation certificates.

Yes, most students are somewhat in awe of their instructors.

"Look, this professor is really hateful. If these reports are true, then he is simply not a good teacher!" Ning Qingyun still maintained the sense of justice she had as a girl. She clenched her little fists and couldn't hide her tone.

Angry.

"Let me take a look first." Qin Ke smiled. He liked and appreciated Ning Qingyun's sense of justice.

After taking Ning Qingyun's cell phone and looking at it for a moment, Qin Ke basically figured out the cause of the incident.

Academic fraud, tampering with experimental data, PUA students, manipulation of peer review, deduction of student labor fees...

Qin Ke also frowned.

This matter is still under investigation, and the truth is not yet known, but Qin Ke has basically made a judgment. If the students were not forced to a dead end, how could they do something like jointly reporting the instructor, where the risks and benefits are obviously not proportional? Even if they fight

If they lose their mentor, they may not be able to reap any good fruits.

Moreover, the words written at the end of the students' reporting letters made Qin Ke a little moved.

Some of them are about to graduate with their Ph.D.s, but for the sake of academic persistence and justice in their hearts, and in order to prevent future students from suffering the same torture, they still decide to do something "stupid but right" without hesitation, even if it is very possible.

As a result, you will be unable to graduate and your future will be ruined.

Just because of this sense of justice and the tragic courage of a lone warrior, Qin Ke felt the need to meddle in others' affairs.

"Jun'er, what are you going to do?"

"Huh? Me? This matter hasn't been investigated yet, but I still want to help these students. At least I want to protect them and prevent them from being retaliated against."

"Okay, let's get started, Ning Nuxia. Students who bravely stand up like this are a rare breed, and we must take more care of them. However, in fact, we don't have to do too much." Qin Ke smiled and put his

The ideas have been stated over and over again.

Ning Qingyun's eyes lit up and she nodded repeatedly: "Just do what you said."

Soon, the two of them edited a scarf with the same content and sent it out using their accounts. At this time, Wei Jing came and knocked on the door, asking them to take a car to the IMU venue.

Qin Ke and Ning Qingyun looked at each other and smiled. Without looking at the replies from netizens, they held hands and pushed out the door together.

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In Xia State, it was already past 8 o'clock in the evening. Lin Chaowen from Beijing University of Science and Technology had just finished working in the laboratory and was preparing to eat instant noodles.

He graduated with a Ph.D. last year and is currently working as a postdoc in the school's Microcircuit Automation Research Institute. His status as a postdoc is much better than when he was a Ph.D. The boss he works with is still his original Ph.D. supervisor, and the supervisor also thinks highly of him and allows him to

Being the leader of a group made Lin Chaowen very motivated. Although the weather in Beijing is currently bad, with continuous snow and wind, the school has been suspended, and postdocs can also suspend their work, he still chooses to go to the laboratory every day to do research.

He was the only one left in the laboratory at this time. He planned to go back after finishing his instant noodles, but when he looked out the window...

"The wind and snow are quite heavy. We may have to lay the floor in the laboratory again tonight..." Lin Chaowen shook his head and sighed: "Academician Qin's prediction is really accurate."

This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! Thinking of Academician Qin, whom he met on a plane seven years ago and took a photo with him, Lin Chaowen was filled with emotion. At that time, Academician Qin had just participated in the National Mathematical Olympiad.

He is a sophomore in high school, and he is an undergraduate. Seven years have passed in the blink of an eye, and he is still a postdoctoral fellow. However, Academician Qin has already become famous all over the world, has countless halos, and has become an academician of both academies early on.
To be continued...