Xueba's life simulator

Chapter 59 Determining Colleges and Universities
Thursday the 23th.

On this day, Zhou Ming finally decided on the school he was going to.

However, the result was somewhat different from what Zhou Ming had imagined at the beginning.

Zhou Ming decided to go to the University of Science and Technology of China, majoring in the Department of Life Sciences and Medicine, and the Department of Neurobiology and Biophysics in the School of Life Sciences.

The University of Science and Technology of China is a comprehensive national key university affiliated to the Huaguo Academy of Sciences, focusing on cutting-edge science and high-tech, as well as medicine and characteristic liberal arts. The school was established in September 1958 and moved to Luzhou, the capital city of Bai Province, in early 9.

Bai Province is not a province with a strong economy, nor is it a province with a strong education. The biology major of the University of Science and Technology of China is not the best under Qingbei.

But the status of this university in Bai Province is very high. It can even be said that its status in Bai Province is higher than that of any university in other provinces and cities in China.

People in Bai Province have always ridiculed that Jinling is the Jerusalem of Bai Province, but Bai Province has always wanted to develop, and Luzhou also wants to develop into Jinling.

If the Bai Province does not want all the talents in the province to flow to other provinces, then the first thing they need to do is to retain the talents.

How can we retain talents?

Of course, it is a generous treatment.

Therefore, Bai Province has given great financial and political support to the University of Science and Technology of China, the only 985 institution in the province, because they want to retain the talents of University of Science and Technology of China.

If we can retain the talents of USTC, then we can develop Luzhou, and if we develop Luzhou, we can retain more talents. With more talents, Luzhou will develop better. This will be A virtuous cycle.

Of course, on the contrary, if the brain drain is serious, then the development will get worse and worse, and the talent will be lost further, and the further loss of talent will lead to the worsening of urban development, which will create a vicious circle.

And Bai Sheng's strong support from the whole province was what Zhou Ming wanted.

Originally, after the University of Science and Technology of China contacted Zhou Ming, they wanted him to go to the Department of Mathematics of their School of Mathematical Sciences.

Zhou Ming didn't intend to go to the Department of Mathematics at first, he only wanted to go to the School of Biology, so he refused decisively.

But the University of Science and Technology of China did not give up. In order to win over Zhou Ming, they tried their best to bring out Zhou Ming's talents and made a suggestion to Zhou Ming.

It has to be said that the leaders of this year's University of Science and Technology of China are quite courageous.

Their suggestion to Zhou Ming was that as long as Zhou Ming accepted one of their employment contracts, they decided to allow Zhou Ming to enter their biology college.

The employment contract given by the University of Science and Technology of China is to hire Zhou Ming as a special-appointed professor of the Department of Mathematics, School of Mathematical Sciences. The contract is a three-year contract, and it is not a formal professor.

When Zhou Ming first received their invitation, he was also very surprised. After all, although the special-term professors of different universities are more or less different, as far as Zhou Ming knows, no university has yet hired undergraduates as special-term professors. Yes, the specially-appointed professors of other schools are at least all PhD graduates.

Zhou Ming, who has no establishment, cannot recruit graduate students or doctoral students, nor is he qualified to apply for projects.

In addition, the salary offered by Zhou Ming, a specially appointed professor, is not very high, only 1 yuan a month, without even a subsidy, but he does have five insurances and one housing fund.

The three-year system mentioned in the contract generally refers to a special appointment that ends in three years. After the end of the period, it will be decided based on the actual situation whether to become a regular employee.

But there is something special about Zhou Ming, because the contract given to him by HKUST stated that as long as Zhou Ming publishes at least one mathematics paper in any of the four major universities within three years, he can become a full professor and become a full professor directly, along with other students in the school. There is no difference between full professors.

After becoming a full-time employee, the treatment is not at the same level as before.

Not only is the salary much higher, but there are also bonuses every year. There are also holiday bonuses during traditional holidays such as the Mid-Autumn Festival and the Dragon Boat Festival, as well as various subsidies...

All of this is because Zhou Ming published a mathematical paper on "New Advances in Mathematics". After all, it is not easy to publish a paper on the Big Four. Most domestic mathematicians have never had this opportunity in their lifetime.

Zhou Ming, on the other hand, published one of the Big Four at the age of 22, and the University of Science and Technology of China also received gossip that Zhou Ming may have contributed to the "Annual of Mathematics" again.

Regardless of whether it can be published or not, at least Zhou Ming's contribution to the "Annual Journal of Mathematics" shows that he has confidence in the mathematics paper he submitted. For such an extremely young genius mathematics worker, the University of Science and Technology of China will of course do whatever it takes to win him over. pay.

When Zhou Ming knew the specific content of the contract, he almost couldn't hold back his laughter, because his second mathematics paper had already been submitted.

As for the School of Life Sciences, Zhou Ming's path is also very direct, direct PhD, usually 4-5 years.

Direct Ph.D. is to directly study for a Ph.D. degree after graduation, and it is also one of the methods of doctoral enrollment.

In addition, if you want to study for a doctorate, there are also ways to enroll in the unified examination, combined master and doctorate, (doing a doctorate in advance, directly pursuing a doctorate, etc.

Direct Ph.D. undergraduate graduates, when they enroll, are in the first year of doctorate status, trained according to the scientific research level of doctoral students, and the treatment they enjoy is directly doctoral treatment.

As for Zhou's mentor at the School of Life Sciences at the University of Science and Technology of China, Zhou Ming has already selected it in advance. It is Professor Bi Wanfang. Professor Bi Wanfang is an internationally renowned biophysicist and neurobiologist.

Bi Wanfang has made important contributions to the biophysical mechanism of cell membrane repair, the computational rules and signaling mechanism of synaptic plasticity, and the cellular dynamics of neural network echo activity.

His discovery of neuronal discharge time-dependent synaptic plasticity and a series of studies on the molecular and cellular mechanisms and computational rules of STDP promoted the development of this field and had a wider impact in the fields of information science and artificial intelligence.

In addition, he has published dozens of papers in journals such as Science, Journal of Neuroscience, Nature, PNAS, and Nature Neuroscience.

After deciding on a good school and signing the contract as a specially-appointed professor, Zhou Ming first joined the teacher group of the University of Science and Technology of China, and then added teacher Bi Wanfang through the teacher group.

"I have passed your friend verification request, and now we can start chatting." Soon, Zhou Ming's friend verification was passed over there, and this is the content of the greeting after the addition.

"Hello, teacher, I am very interested in your research field. I am very much looking forward to joining your research group, becoming your student, and making some scientific research results." Zhou Minghe sent a message politely.

"?" Bi Wanfang saw that the youngest specially-appointed professor newly recruited by the school added himself as a friend, and said something like "Hello, teacher". He was full of doubts and puzzles, so he could only send A big question mark to express the doubts in my heart.

Seeing the question mark Bi Wanfang came back, Zhou Ming knew that the person who contacted him at the University of Science and Technology might not have had time to tell Bi Wanfang that he was going to study as a graduate student at the University of Science and Technology.

Although the University of Science and Technology has already accepted that Zhou Ming has become a distinguished professor in the Department of Mathematics and a graduate student in the School of Life Sciences, no matter what, the normal process still has to go through. Zhou Ming did not receive a formal notification from there in one day. He is not a graduate student at HKUST.

"This is Mr. Bi, I..." Seeing that Bi Wanfang didn't know that he was going to study as a graduate student with Bi Wanfang, Zhou Ming explained to him in detail.

After Zhou Ming's explanation was let go, Bi Wanfang didn't reply for a long time.

Distinguished professor who is a postgraduate student, the two situations that cannot be realized at the same time are actually appearing in front of my eyes, and they are still in the same university. thought of it.

Just when Zhou Ming was about to close the chat interface with Bi Wanfang that had not been updated for a long time, another message came from there.

"Hello! Although I am your tutor now, you are also a specially-appointed professor of our school. You don't have to talk to me like ordinary students. Let's communicate as colleagues.

However, I still welcome you to our research group. Let me first introduce my research direction to you. "Although I have never encountered this kind of thing before, since I did encounter it today, Bi Wanfang quickly accepted it, and enthusiastically replied a message to Zhou Ming.

(End of this chapter)