428: Chapter 878 Three Million Yuan Bonus!

Hearing Zhao Yang's words.

Zhao Yang's students all wore expressions of excitement, especially Wang Hong. Her eyes were fixed on the few lines of core formulas on the whiteboard, and she felt a slight stir of excitement in her heart. She would be the soul of this paper, the undisputed first author, and no one could take that away from her.

Fiers leaned against the windowsill with a smile on his lips, though his expression remained restrained as he mentally deduced how to connect the next step with Wang Hong's framework.

He Changyan, however, was very calm. Although he was the only Ph.D. among the five, his contribution to this paper was quite low. Even if he were credited, he would at best be the third or even fourth author.

According to the standards in the Dragon Kingdom, almost only the first author is recognized. Even if this paper turns out to be impressive, being the third author doesn't hold much significance.

After Zhao Yang organized their thoughts for them, he did not personally jump into the research project.

If he were to personally step in and derive the specific expansion of that high-dimensional dimensionality reduction operator in exponential sum estimation, he could indeed solve the problem faster, as he was the one who developed this tool, and no one was more familiar with it than him.

But he wasn't sure how the system would judge it if he did that.

After all, the task required the students to complete the paper independently. If he were to handle the core steps himself, it was hard to say whether the system would count it.

It was better to let the students complete it themselves as much as possible. He would watch from the sidelines, keep an eye on the critical nodes, pull them back if they went off course, and let them grind out the specific work themselves.

"I have already explained the construction logic of this dimensionality reduction operator to you clearly. You will handle the remaining derivations yourselves. Wang Hong, you are responsible for building the complete framework. Fiers, keep an eye on the convergence verification; every critical pivot point must be validated. He Changyan, the chain of lemmas is yours; don't miss any premise assumptions. If you get stuck, you can come to me at any time, but don't expect me to write the steps for you. This is your paper."

After saying this, Zhao Yang put the chalk back into the chalk box and brushed the dust off his hands. Wang Hong nodded.

"Fiers, come over here. Look at the boundary conditions for this mapping in the fourth step. I used the real symmetric assumption, but if the characteristic falls near the complex root of unity, this assumption might not hold. Help me see if the selection of this contour can be improved using the method you used previously when dealing with Harmonic Analysis."

"I'll try. That method is indeed more stable than the traditional Circle Method when handling asymmetric boundaries, but it has only been verified for low-power cases before. I'm not sure if it can maintain convergence when applied to high-power cases."

Fiers walked to the whiteboard, picked up a piece of chalk, and drew a set of auxiliary lines next to Wang Hong's derivation. He stared at it for a good while, then shook his head. "It won't work. If we use it directly here, the convergence speed won't keep up. We need to add a transition function. I saw a similar handling method in the literature a few days ago; I'll go back and find it."

"Then hurry up and find it. I'll finish writing the main body of the framework first, and then we can add it in once you've confirmed that transition function," Wang Hong said.

He Changyan interjected from the side, "Last week, I was reading Vinogradov's method of trigonometric sums, and there is a lemma generalized to high-power cases that might be useful. I'll mark the source and post it in the group chat."

He lowered his head, sent the information to the group chat on his phone, and then continued flipping through his thick notebook of literature.

The students gathered around the whiteboard, discussing non-stop. Zhao Yang stood at the doorway watching for a while before turning and leaving the office.

After leaving the School of Mathematics, he went to the Biology laboratory. The progress of the students in the Biology field was much slower.

Several students were performing a new batch of cell passaging. Seeing Zhao Yang enter, Zhou Ting placed the pipette back on the rack and took the initiative to report the adhesion rate and contamination test results of this batch of samples.

Zhao Yang flipped through a few pages of experimental records and asked if the culture medium formula had been adjusted.

Zhou Ting said it was still based on the previous formula, only the trypsin digestion time had been shortened slightly. Zhao Yang nodded and walked over to the lab benches of the other two master's students to look at the two sets of Western blot results they had recently run. The band positions were correct, but the background was still too high; the issue with the blocking buffer concentration he had mentioned last time had not been fully corrected.

"I talked about the blocking buffer issue last time; just increase the proportion of skim milk powder a bit. Have you done any follow-up comparative experiments since then?" Zhao Yang asked.

The two master's students looked at each other, and one of them said somewhat embarrassedly that they hadn't had the time yet. Zhao Yang didn't say much, just asked them to bring over their experimental logbook, wrote a few lines of adjusted parameters on the latest page, and told them to follow these when they ran it next time.

After handling these miscellaneous tasks, he went through the research directions of each student one by one. Compared to the students in the mathematics field who had already touched the edge of top-tier journals, the Biology side still lacked quite a bit of accumulation. Zhao Yang was not surprised by this speed; for the Biology discipline, being able to reach this current stage was already quite good.

There were some special data and special materials he could not share with the students, such as the specific source of the SOD2 Mutant, or the core parameters of the Foundation Establishment Pill. These things involved the system, and he could not utter a single word about them.

All he could do was lecture them regularly and provide directional advice when they encountered experimental bottlenecks; the rest had to be left to them to slowly explore in the laboratory.

Coming down from the Science and Technology Building, Zhao Yang ran into the President's assistant at the stairwell.

"Professor Zhao, I've been looking for you everywhere. President Wang would like you to come over," the President's assistant said respectfully to Zhao Yang.

Zhao Yang nodded. "Let's go!"

Saying this, he followed the assistant toward the administration building. When he met President Wang, the old president was sitting behind his desk with several documents spread out in front of him.

Seeing Zhao Yang enter, he took off his reading glasses, placed them on the table, and stood up to invite Zhao Yang to sit down. "Professor Zhao, the school is preparing to hold a celebration for you. Your fields medal is the very first medal for our entire Dragon Kingdom mathematics community. This honor is not just yours; it is a major event for the school and the nation. The school administration has decided that we must not only hold a ceremony but also hold it grandly and decently. The school has decided to award you three million in prize money at the celebration, which is a small token of appreciation from all the teachers and students for this honor you have brought us."

President Wang looked at Zhao Yang and said with a smile.

Zhao Yang picked up the teacup handed to him by the secretary and took a sip. "Sure, you set the time and place, and I will be there."

President Wang asked a few more questions about the attack in Seoul, saying he had been extremely worried after seeing it on the news and hadn't slept soundly for several days. He leaned against the armrest of the sofa, pondered for a moment, and said to Zhao Yang with a slightly serious expression.

"In the future, regardless of what award you are receiving, try your best not to go abroad. You can achieve results just as well doing research domestically. Safety comes first. Everyone was very worried about you when you went to Seoul to receive the award this time. Listen to me, don't go anymore."

Zhao Yang smiled after listening. "Yes, I do have that intention."

The two chatted for a few more minutes about the recent situation at the school, then Zhao Yang said his goodbyes, left the President's office, and took a car back to his villa.

Returning to the basement of the villa, Zhao Yang sat down in front of the main control console and pulled up the system panel to check the experience points for the Physics discipline: over 247,000. There was still a significant distance to go before reaching the 500,000 needed for Lv6.

He thought for a moment and dumped all the free experience points he had accumulated into the Physics discipline. The progress bar jumped forward a section, reaching over 347,000. He was still about 150,000 short.