156: Chapter 156 Tsinghua's Interface

"Match."

As soon as those two words were spoken, the direction of discussion in the conference room quickly shifted.

The independent office on the second floor of the Mathematical Sciences Center, the single apartment in Zijing Building No. 17, 24-hour access permissions, a direct professor interface, and a dedicated contact person at Qiuzhen College.

These were already in place.

What truly needed to be resolved now was another matter.

The head of the Mathematical Sciences Center projected the draft onto the screen.

There were originally three alternative options in the title bar.

[Jiang Lin Research Group]

[Jiang Lin Office]

[Jiang Lin Research Support Unit]

As soon as the first line appeared, the head administrator from Qiuzhen College shook his head.

"Research group isn't appropriate."

A research group implied an advisor-student relationship, member management, funding allocation, and authorship credit.

Jiang Lin had no advisor, nor did he belong to any professor's team.

PFR/Marton was his independent achievement; what Tsinghua University needed to do was accommodate it, not claim ownership.

The second line was also quickly crossed out.

"Office" carried too little weight.

Finally, the cursor stopped on the third line.

[Jiang Lin Research Support Unit]

The Deputy Director of the Mathematical Sciences Center said, "This term is accurate. It indicates only one thing: the Center is providing support for Jiang Lin's current research. Academic affiliation, research group title, honorary plaques—do not shove any of those in here."

The meeting recorder typed down the final title.

[Jiang Lin Research Support Unit (Provisional) Plan]

The word "Provisional" was retained.

A three-month trial run.

After three months, an re-evaluation would be conducted based on operational volume, seminar feedback, international correspondence scale, and Jiang Lin's personal state.

These parentheses actually brought a sigh of relief to many in the conference room.

It did not push a new structure to its institutional limits all at once, nor did it package Jiang Lin in advance as an administrative head.

It simply acknowledged that the volume of affairs generated around Jiang Lin had already exceeded the upper limit that a standard student management system could handle.

The second page covered staffing.

One academic secretary.

One administrative assistant.

One technical liaison.

The boundaries of responsibility were detailed meticulously.

The academic secretary would handle seminar notes, international issue archiving, version indexing, and feedback stratification, but would not make any judgments on mathematical conclusions.

The administrative assistant would handle visit appointments, meeting room bookings, itineraries, and courtesy communications, but would not represent Jiang Lin externally.

The technical liaison would handle the formal verification interface and liaise with the Department of Computer Science. All requirements would be submitted via problem checklists, without directly demanding real-time cooperation from Jiang Lin.

Media interviews would go through the university publicity department.

Commercial collaborations would go through Low Entropy Workshop.

Daily student affairs remained under Qiuzhen College.

Mathematical discussions would enter the archiving inbox of the Mathematical Sciences Center.

Once these lines were separated, the atmosphere in the conference room actually relaxed a bit.

Because everyone realized this wasn't about adding a new entry point for Jiang Lin.

Rather, it was placing a filter shell outside his entry point—one that was inspectable, traceable, and capable of rejecting requests.

The Deputy Director of the Mathematical Sciences Center scrolled down the personnel responsibilities and added two lines.

[The academic secretary does not undertake mathematical conclusion judgments; only handles archiving, indexing, organizing, and forwarding.]

[Formal verification interfaces enter via problem checklists and do not directly demand real-time cooperation from Jiang Lin.]

Once these two lines were inserted, the nature of the Research Support Unit finally settled.

It had nothing to do with an entourage, nor was it connected to a publicity team.

Even less was it a channel for Tsinghua University to take over academic judgment on his behalf.

It was simply a shell.

A shell to filter out useless noise for him while funneling truly valuable questions inside layer by layer.

The head of the publicity department looked at the screen and asked, "If someone asks externally about this support unit, how should we phrase it?"

The Deputy Director pulled up several alternative expressions.

Special Cultivation.

Exceptional Support.

Genius Channel.

The head of the Mathematical Sciences Center deleted them one by one.

"None of these."

The publicity head nodded and typed out a new line.

[The Mathematical Sciences Center provides academic hosting and research support for Jiang Lin's relevant research; internal arrangements will not be elaborated externally.]

"The phrase 'special treatment' must not enter the document either, as it would distort the story," the head of the Mathematical Sciences Center said.

"The logic here is simple: achievements generated a volume of affairs, and that volume needs to be accommodated."

No one in the conference room raised any further objections.

Because this statement was more solid than any publicity phrasing.

Tsinghua University wasn't trying to fabricate a new story around Jiang Lin. Jiang Lin had already created a reality that the existing system was forced to respond to.

At 11:21 AM, the draft plan took shape.

The document title remained:

[Jiang Lin Research Support Unit (Provisional) Plan]

The first page retained only a few core relationships.

[Administrative Hosting: Shing-Tung Yau Mathematical Sciences Center, Tsinghua University.]

[Student Registration Affiliation: Qiuzhen College.]

[Daily Student Affairs: Qiuzhen College and Student Affairs Department.]

[Academic Discussion Channel: Mathematical Sciences Center Archiving Inbox.]

[Unit Core: Jiang Lin.]

[Student Status: Undergraduate Student, Class of 2022, Qiuzhen College.]

The last two lines were right next to each other.

So close that it was hard to ignore the tension between them.

One was the core position of a cutting-edge research unit.

The other was the status of a newly enrolled freshman.

In the past, it was impossible for them to appear in the same official document.

Today, they were written line by line into Tsinghua University's own system.

...

While the official plan was still circulating, email routing couldn't wait until the official red seal was stamped.

The name, personnel, and duties of the Research Support Unit required campus approval.

However, the internal archiving inbox could be activated early as a technical node.

It was not open to the public and represented no formal organization.

Its sole function was to copy, tag, and stratify the emails that had already flooded in.

So halfway through the meeting, a simple internal address was added to the Mathematical Sciences Center's information system.

ymc-research-support-01.

The outside world didn't know this address.

What truly bore the pressure were still the few old entry points.

The existing public contact inbox of Tsinghua Mathematical Sciences Center.

The correspondence address on the PFR/Marton preprint page.

And the academic communication threads that had already existed in the controlled circulation chain.

In accordance with the provisional rules just established in the meeting, the system administrator added forwarding and tagging to these entry points.

Any email containing keywords such as Jiang, PFR, Marton, finite-field, Freiman-Ruzsa, entropy bridge, Appendix C-2, etc., in the title or body would first be copied to ymc-research-support-01 for archiving, then manually processed layer by layer.

In the first hour after activation, forty-seven emails arrived in the internal archive box.

The quantity wasn't excessive.

What truly made people frown was their nature.

The first one manually flagged was an email from a professor of Additive Combinatorics at Princeton.

The email body asked three things.

Whether the public version could be read section by section in a small autumn seminar.

Whether Appendix C-2 should be taught prior to Node 47.

And whether Jiang Lin would be willing to give an online technical briefing at an appropriate time, aimed exclusively at researchers in relevant fields.

The academic secretary tagged it as Category A-2.

[Special Discussion / To be digested first by the Mathematical Sciences Center / Do not disturb Jiang Lin for now]

The second came from a combinatorics reading group in Europe.

They had already broken PFR/Marton v1.0 down into a ten-week reading plan.

Week 1: Introduction and Symbol Table.

Week 2: Spectral Cluster Index.

Week 3: Jump straight to Repeated Payment Isolation under Non-Uniform Density Shells.

The email concluded with—

[If Jiang has a preferred reading order, we would appreciate a short note.]

The academic secretary read it twice and placed it in Category B.

[Seminar Organization / Unified response can be prepared by the Center]

The third came from a young faculty member doing formal verification in the Department of Computer Science.

[Preliminary Suggestions Regarding Formal Verification Interface for Node 38 and Appendix C-2]

The body contained a very clear problem checklist.

Variable Naming Conflicts.

Probability Space Encapsulation.

Four-Variable Posterior Measure.

Shell Index Mapping.

Degenerate Case Exclusion Conditions.

The technical liaison picked it out separately and tagged it as Category A-1.

[Formal Verification / Technical Problem Checklist / To be forwarded during fixed window]

The fourth came from a financial media outlet.

The headline read—[18-Year-Old Tsinghua Freshman Solves Another World Problem: Has Jiang Lin Locked in the fields medal in Advance?]

The administrative assistant didn't hesitate and forwarded it directly to the university publicity department.

The fifth came from a capital institution.

The email body mashed PFR/Marton, Low Entropy Workshop, robot control chains, industrial AI software, and university technology transfer into a single paragraph, written in an extremely enthusiastic tone.

But the more enthusiastic it was, the more dangerous it became.

Following the rules, the administrative assistant forwarded it to Low Entropy Workshop's public business inbox and added a note.

[Involves commercial cooperation; do not enter Mathematical Sciences Center academic archive.]

Ten minutes later, Liang Zhixia's reply synced back.

[Low Entropy Workshop does not use PFR/Marton as an endorsement for any product, financing, or technical cooperation. For engineering collaborations, please submit clear scenarios, test conditions, and boundary requirements.]

After reading this sentence, the Deputy Director of the Mathematical Sciences Center copied it directly into the operational log so there would be a precedent for every similar email in the future.

The purpose of the institutional shell was not to push everything onto Jiang Lin to judge.

Rather, it was to ensure that things that clearly shouldn't reach his desk were blocked at the very first layer.

Before noon, the publicity department also put forward a very natural suggestion.

Subsequent updates on the official website needed accompanying photos.

Jiang Lin was currently undergoing military training.

If they could snap a photo of him sitting by the edge of the playground in fatigue uniform, reading a paper abstract, the publicity impact would be outstanding.

From a campus publicity angle, this suggestion was fantastic.

Eighteen years old.

Tsinghua freshman.

Military training playground.

PFR/Marton public version.

Any editor seeing this would know this single photo could maximize media engagement.

However, the head of the Mathematical Sciences Center took just one look and rejected the suggestion.

The reason was very brief.

[Do not package Jiang Lin's daily training scenes into a spectacle of achievement.]

Feeling a bit disappointed, the head of publicity removed the option for military training site photos.

In the end, subsequent updates on the official website retained only screenshots of the preprint page, screenshots of the Mathematical Sciences Center's academic news, and an exterior photo of the Mathematical Sciences Center building with no people in it.

This wasn't about being low-key; it was about boundaries.

Tsinghua University could acknowledge achievements, provide support, and organize seminars.

However, it could not turn Jiang Lin himself into material for campus legends to be repeatedly exploited.

11:36 AM.

A break at Zijing Playground.

The drill instructor led the squad under the shade of the trees and allowed everyone to rehydrate.

Jiang Lin had just sat down and taken a sip of tea when Zhang Yuchen walked over from outside the formation.

"Jiang Lin."

Jiang Lin looked up.

"Senior Zhang."

"There's a summary you need to take a look at."

Zhang Yuchen handed over his screen.

[Jiang Lin Research Support Unit (Provisional) Plan]

Zhao Chengyu was originally sitting nearby rubbing his calves, but after catching sight of the document title out of the corner of his eye, his movements paused.

After looking for just two seconds, he whispered, "The university is setting up entry control for you."

Jiang Lin hummed in response and continued reading down.

Academic Secretary.

Administrative Assistant.

Technical Liaison.

Archiving Inbox.

Fixed Time Windows.

Media and Commercial Isolation.

Daily student affairs remained under Qiuzhen College.

Then, he nodded.

If it was merely adding another title or plaque, it would be completely unnecessary for him.

However, if it could block invalid requests outside and route crucial questions in proper order, it was quite good.

Zhang Yuchen asked, "If you have any feedback, speak up directly. I'll forward it straight to the meeting."

Jiang Lin handed the phone back to him.

"Three points."

Zhang Yuchen immediately lowered his head to take notes.

"First, do not use the name 'research group' externally."

"Second, the archiving inbox should be screened first by the Mathematical Sciences Center, forwarding to me only the questions requiring my personal judgment."

"Third, military training and daily routines will follow standard procedures without temporary interruptions during training; formal discussions will take place during fixed evening windows."

Zhang Yuchen noted them down item by item.

"What about staffing? The academic secretary, administrative assistant, and so on—do you have preferred candidates?"

"No need."

Jiang Lin answered quickly.

"The Center can just select based on competence."

After writing down all three points, Zhang Yuchen double-checked.

"Is that all?"

"For now, yes."

Zhang Yuchen nodded, turned, and left.

Zhao Chengyu watched his figure walk far away before turning to look at Jiang Lin.

"If anyone else received a document like this, they'd probably screenshot the title and post it to ten group chats."

Jiang Lin tightened his water bottle cap.

"No need."

"True."

Zhao Chengyu chuckled.

In the distance, the drill instructor was already raising his hand to blow the whistle.

"Fall in!"

The formation quickly stood up from under the shade.

Water bottle caps were tightened, cap brims straightened, and the loose formation gathered back into a disciplined square block.

11:49 AM.

In the administrative building conference room, the plan entered university-wide approval circulation.

At the end of the document, the three points of feedback Jiang Lin had just submitted were appended to the execution notes.

[Do not use the name 'research group' externally.]

[The archiving inbox will be screened first by the Mathematical Sciences Center, with only key questions entering Jiang Lin's personal processing window.]

[Military training and routine academic schedules will in principle not be interrupted by temporary affairs; formal academic discussions will be scheduled during fixed windows.]

The meeting recorder saved the file.

A version number popped up in the bottom right corner of the screen.

v0.3.

This was merely a provisional plan, but it was already enough to change many things.

Starting today, emails sent to Jiang Lin would no longer directly flood his personal inbox.

Mathematical questions would go first to the Mathematical Sciences Center archiving inbox, while media interviews would pass first through the university publicity department.

Engineering collaborations and capital invitations would be redirected to Low Entropy Workshop.

Truly valuable questions in seminars would also no longer be mixed up with congratulations, interviews, invitations, and probing inquiries.

A new protective shell had been provisionally set up by Tsinghua University.

On Zijing Playground, the instructor's command rang out once again.

"Quick time—march!"

The square formation moved forward.

Jiang Lin stood in the ranks, arms swinging, locking his stride length to match the students beside him.