CHAPTER 632: CHAPTER 195 OPENING CEREMONY AWARDS CEREMONY (PART 1)_2

This is also the reason why he gave up going back to Star City just because of something Tian Yanzhen said.

As for confidentiality principles...

Qiao Yu indeed hasn’t told anyone. But obviously, Tian Yanzhen, Yuan Zhengxin, and Qiao Xi are exceptions.

His mentor and the elder mentor understood the rules of these awards even more than he did, so naturally, they wouldn’t spread it around. As for Qiao Xi, someone who hasn’t posted anything on social media for ten years, there’s even less chance she’ll spread it around randomly.

The only purpose for Yuan Zhengxin’s visit this time was to witness Qiao Yu receiving the award firsthand tomorrow.

So he decided to come a day early, and bringing Qiao Xi was naturally to let her witness Qiao Yu’s most important day in his life so far firsthand.

In this situation, even if Elder Yuan was having guests or was sleeping and got woken up by Qiao Yu, he probably wouldn’t say anything harsh.

Not to mention that Qiao Yu even knew the guest who was meeting with Elder Yuan.

"Grandpa, Mom, oh, Professor Zhang, you’re here too!" Actually, Qiao Yu knew that Zhang Shuwen was in Yuan Zhengxin’s room at that time.

When he came up just now, Zheng Xiweng had already told him.

Let’s put it this way, it seems that Zheng Xiweng, who is always by Qiao Yu’s side, knows all the movements of everyone related to Qiao Yu in this building and the opposite building.

Qiao Yu didn’t know how many people they had to deploy in this hotel to achieve this effect. Could it be that they controlled the hotel’s surveillance system?

The Professor Zhang in Qiao Yu’s mouth was naturally Zhang Shuwen from Princeton.

He also actually arrived in Philadelphia yesterday but hadn’t found an opportunity to meet with Qiao Yu.

After all, Zhang Shuwen felt that he wasn’t really familiar with Qiao Yu, plus, Qiao Yu was so busy. So many people wanted to meet with Qiao Yu. Not to mention it was Yuan Zhengxin who invited him back to the country.

It’s fair to say that these old-school Huaxia-descendants of scholars are quite traditional. Many things, they truly can’t let go of as freely as Western scholars.

For example, if Western scholars feel that Qiao Yu’s research could be beneficial to their own work, they’d find any way to meet with Qiao Yu to chat and see if they can bring him over first.

"Qiao Yu finished the meeting, ah. Come, have a seat." Elder Yuan looked up and saw Qiao Yu, smiling happily, and pointed to a chair beside the room.

Qiao Yu made a funny face at Qiao Xi, then obediently went to sit down. Zheng Xiweng followed behind Qiao Yu.

"Little Zheng, don’t just stand, find a chair and sit too." Elder Yuan added.

"I don’t need to introduce Professor Zhang to you again, do I?" Yuan Zhengxin asked with a smile.

Ever since the elder knew that Qiao Yu would receive the Fields Medal this year, he couldn’t help but grin whenever he saw Qiao Yu, unable to maintain a serious expression.

"Grandpa, how could I forget? I’ve met Professor Zhang several times. The first time we met at Yanbei University, Professor Zhang even guided me. To be honest, my current achievements have some credit to Professor Zhang."

Qiao Yu immediately replied without hesitation.

After all, Zhang Shuwen is on good terms with Elder Yuan, and he is also a well-known mathematician from Huaxia, so it never hurts to say something nice.

There’s no harm in speaking well.

"Haha, did you hear that, Shuwen? I told you Qiao Yu is sensible and knows who is good to him." Sure enough, Elder Yuan was even happier and said loudly with a strong spirit.

Zhang Shuwen glanced at Qiao Yu with a smile, then looked at Elder Yuan and Qiao Xi and said, "It’s all thanks to Elder Yuan and Qiao Xi’s good teaching."

Qiao Xi smiled. She’s never been too good at handling such occasions. But truth be told, Qiao Xi felt that Qiao Yu was more influenced by his grandfather.

"By the way, Qiao Yu, I have a matter to discuss with you. Professor Zhang has resigned from his lifetime professorship at Princeton and decided to go to Huaqing after this conference. I’m planning to recommend him for the position of Deputy Director and Chair Professor of the Mathematical Science Center. What do you think?"

Qiao Yu immediately said, "Wow, grandpa, do you even need to ask? That’s fantastic news! Huaqing’s math strength will be hugely improved; surpassing Princeton in the future won’t be a problem at all!

By the way, Professor Zhang, I happen to have a very promising major project. When we return, I’ll gather my mentor, and we can discuss it together, try to get both Yanbei and Huaqing to take on this project."

Today, Qiao Yu’s mind was filled with the project on achieving quantum simulation calculation from the morning.

This project is truly big. With his current limited resources, there’s no way he can handle it alone.

But if Yanbei and Huaqing join in, it would be different. Both sides’ mathematics centers, School of Mathematics, and Computer Science Academy certainly have all kinds of talents.

Not to sound bad, but even if the current talent pool isn’t sufficient, if two top domestic universities start announcing they’re recruiting, especially for a project led by the youngest Fields Medal winner, high-level candidates would likely fill an entire field.

At that time, he must suggest inviting that "Teacher Wen" to give classes to these new participants in the research.

"Oh? A major project? How big? Can’t you talk about it now?" Hearing this, both Yuan Zhengxin and Zhang Shuwen got interested, especially Zhang Shuwen, who immediately asked.

"Hmm, it’s really not convenient to talk about it now. Let’s discuss it when we’re back." Qiao Yu said seriously.

After all, it’s someone else’s idea, and in their territory, Qiao Yu felt it was essential to respect those big shots a little.

Once back, it won’t matter.

As long as the project gets approved, it’ll be a race to see who can progress faster.