The Military-industrial Scientific Research System of the Academic Master Chapter 980

Chapter 980: Be a company with dreams

Looking at Professor Harold who seemed to be suddenly excited, Matthew was a little confused about the situation for a while.

In fact, the latter can vaguely feel that something is wrong with his boss's mentality in the past few days.

It's just that as a student, it's not easy to directly ask what happened.

Including a few minutes ago, when he first entered the office, the other party still looked distracted.

As a result, less than 30 seconds after he turned around and left the office, Harold completely cleared away the gloom on his face.

"But professor..."

Matthew said with a troubled expression:

"This exhibition board... was something you asked me to compile from an academic report before?"

Harold raised his head and quickly recalled.

I found that this seems to be the case.

After the report meeting failed at the end of last year, he approached Matthew and asked him to condense the report he had written into a display board in preparation for participating in the subsequent energy and power industry conference.

I just didn't expect that due to the obstruction at the school level, even the latter matter was blown away...

The teacher and student stared at each other for half a second, and the situation was a bit awkward for a while.

"Ahem—"

Harold coughed twice to cover up his embarrassment, and then put on a posture of "Everything is under my calculation":

"After all, that report was written half a year ago, and the content is a bit out of date."

"Before, I considered that the space for making an exhibition board was limited, so it was not easy to add anything to it. But this time, the report time is 25-30 minutes, so we can definitely include some of the new discoveries we have made recently."

At this time, Matthew also understood a little bit:

"So... there is a higher-level academic conference that invited our research group?"

He also became energetic instantly—

After all, just now, Harold specifically emphasized that reporting on stage has the best effect.

Facing this question, Harold was stunned for a moment.

At this time, he did not realize the source of this "special invitation" and its corresponding value.

Therefore, I am somewhat worried that I will not be able to take my students with me.

So, he turned his head and glanced at the computer screen.

Because it was not a formal invitation letter, it was just asking for his wishes, so it did not include any details.

Fortunately, the official website address of the Numerical Algorithms and Computational Science Conference is attached.

Harold quickly clicked in.

"Well...it doesn't clearly say whether I can take other people with me..."

While stroking his slightly bald head, he looked at the meeting rules listed on the web page:

"I'll ask the organizer when I reply. If possible..."

Harold had originally wanted to take you with him if he could.

But mid-sentence, he suddenly saw another part of the content below—

Numerical calculation competition.

Obviously, this meeting is actually more than just a meeting.

There's even foreplay.

At this time, Harold vaguely remembered that he had seen news related to it a few months ago.

But there were only three people with master's degrees and doctoral degrees under him, and one of them was a first-year graduate student. In addition, the competition time conflicted with the conference he was planning to attend, so he didn't take it seriously.

But looking back now, I almost picked up the sesame seeds and lost the watermelon.

"Matthew."

Harold waved to the side, motioning for the other party to come closer:

"I think... you can sign up for this competition."

Matthew moved closer to the monitor and took a closer look:

"But it says a group requires three people?"

"Did all our research team go there..."

Regarding this point, Harold actually had an idea for a long time:

"It just says that the contestants must represent the same school. You can bring Garcia and find another friend."

Lucas Garcia, Matthew's junior student, is currently struggling with whether he should continue to study for a PhD or work directly after graduating with a master's degree.

From Harold's point of view, he naturally hopes that the other party can stay and continue his studies.

But as a mentor, he has to let the other person see some of his remaining thoughts.

Now, all Harold's limited resources are being piled on Matthew, so that the latter can barely finish the project without delay.

And new projects are nowhere in sight.

In this case, people in the future would not dare to study for a Ph.D., at least they would not dare to study for a Ph.D. here.

It is precisely because of this that Harold desperately hopes to fight a turnaround.

"But it says that each institution can only have one representative team to participate in the finals...which means we need to compete with other opponents in the school first..."

The many setbacks in the past two years since starting his Ph.D. program have made Matthew habitually unconfident.

However, Harold sees this very clearly:

"Don't worry, Matthew."

He put on a confident look:

“The website says that the broad scope of this year's competition is computational fluid dynamics.”

"In this regard, I dare not speak about the situation of other schools, but in our school, there will be no one better than our research group..."

This is definitely not Harold's nonsense.

Unlike most professors who came from the lecturer line, he spent the first twenty years of his career in a semi-commercial research institute.

It can even be said that if it were not for the exclusion due to differences in research directions, he would not have chosen to enter the university at all. This background led to Harold's lack of strong connections in the academic circle, and it became one of the main shackles that restricted his further development over the years.

But it also allowed him to accumulate a lot of specific project experience.

As Harold's first disciple, Matthew naturally benefited a lot from it.

It's just that due to the lack of a control group and the fact that the research group has had too few projects in recent years, the latter himself doesn't know about it.

However, if you don't know, you don't know.

But looking at his mentor's determined expression, Matthew nodded after hesitating for a few seconds.

"Then you first contact people and form a team."

Harold patted his thigh excitedly:

"I have compiled some typical CFD projects that I have done in the past, especially the CFD projects that were done with TORC Multiphysics after 1998. You can do more research during this time..."

"Although it says that participating teams do not have instructors, it does not say that reference materials cannot be provided..."

Naturally, Professor Harold was not the only one who noticed this numerical calculation competition.

In fact, many people move much faster than him.

In fact, if Harold hadn't been so troubled by his school and colleagues who were not good at it, he wouldn't have ignored the relevant news -

Torch Group started promoting the Numerical Algorithms and Computational Science Conference as early as the end of 2001.

As an "appetizer", although this competition cannot be said to be the top priority, it still occupies a quite important share.

The first, second, and third place prizes plus various individual winning prizes total US$500,000, and the opportunity to get up close and personal with big names in the field of numerical computing.

Even industry giants such as Dassault, Airbus, Pratt & Whitney, Siemens, and General Electric will send high-level representatives to attend the conference.

If any contestant performs well in the competition, or is lucky enough to be directly chosen by a large company, it is basically equivalent to saving 10 years of detours.

For the professors and researchers who participated in the conference, these companies are also first-rate super funders.

As for the travel expenses, food and accommodation expenses that need to be borne by yourself, they are nothing to mention in comparison.

What some participants were worried about was the venue itself.

After all, in many propagandas, China is a chaotic, backward place comparable to black Africa.

Of course, most people are relatively rational.

Although they have no way of knowing the true situation in China, they are inevitably affected by some tendentious propaganda.

But logically speaking, in a place where a high-tech enterprise like Torch Group can be born, poverty is put aside, at least it is unlikely to cause chaos.

Therefore, all of a sudden, air tickets to China at the end of March suddenly became very popular...

And at the same time.

In addition to schools and research institutions, there is another group of people who are also watching this conference closely.

San Francisco, Stanford University.

In the private reception room of Professor Anthony Jameson.

"These days, I have carefully studied the competition sponsored by Torch Group."

Jameson was holding a cup of strong coffee and leaning against a window sill:

"In the competition requirements, there is no mention of restrictions on computing tools and methods. Perhaps... we can consider using this opportunity to expand the influence of COMSOL to the business world."

Sitting on the sofa not far across from him was Klaus Hertz.

Head of COMSOL US Division.

It is said to be the American branch, but it is actually responsible for liaising with Professor Jameson's research team.

"You mean, find a few teams that have a higher chance of winning prizes, sponsor them... or use other methods, and let them use our calculation tools to compete?"

Heltz was naturally not stupid to be able to sit in this position, and he understood what Jameson meant almost instantly.

"That's right."

Jameson nodded:

“Although my personal relationships have allowed some companies to include COMSOL in their software supplier lists over the years, as far as I know, even after the latest software version 2.5 is released, the actual usage rate of our software is not very optimistic. ”

“Many commercial users have the mentality of hedging their bets and buy the right to use all decent software on the market. However, in actual operation, they still rely on Torch Group's software, even in the CFD field where we actually have an advantage. Same thing..."

"From the perspective of users, they will definitely be inclined to seek stability and will not randomly use projects to try and make mistakes. Therefore, it is meaningless for us to just stop at word-of-mouth promotion. We need an opportunity to prove to them that there are better products on the market than TORCH Multiphysics. Better choice!”

In fact, this is a fairly common phenomenon in the software field -

Faced with opponents that have already occupied the mainstream market share, it is difficult for latecomers to overcome the long-term usage habits, regardless of performance.

Even if a part of the market is occupied by off-site means, users often do one thing on the surface and another behind the scenes.

For example, China has encountered the same problem in the process of promoting domestic operating systems.

At the beginning, I installed dual systems on the computer.

Later, when it was no longer allowed, I simply used my own computer to work.

Later, I disabled the external interface of the office hardware and managed to barely control it.

It's just that things have changed, and now it's the Europeans' turn to have a headache.

After hearing this, Heltz nodded in agreement, but the expression on his face was still a little hesitant:

"But that is someone else's home field after all..."

Jameson shrugged helplessly:

"There is no way, given the current situation of the entire industry, except for Torch Group, it is difficult for others...including us to have enough appeal."

"However, you don't have to worry too much."

At this point, he paused for a moment and drank all the coffee in the cup:

"I am a special guest at this conference and have the right to supervise the entire competition process."

"Although playing at home will definitely give you a certain advantage, after all, we are in front of our colleagues from all over the world, so they don't dare to overdo it..."

(End of chapter)

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