Volume 2 Academic Career Chapter 794: Investing in the Development of the Research Institute
In order to seize the market opportunity, all companies paid the advance payment after signing the contract.
Even though this is just an advance payment, when added together, it is a huge sum of nearly 1 billion.
With this huge sum of money, Chen Zhou immediately asked Chen Haining to improve the facilities of the Yenching Institute of Natural Sciences Theory and speed up the preparation and construction of the Luzhou Institute of Applied Science and Technology.
At the same time , I began to discuss the preparation of an academic journal with members of the Academic Committee of the Yenching Institute of Natural Sciences .
It can be said that Chen Zhou hardly used the money for his own plans, but invested it all in the development of the institute.
While arranging various matters, Chen Zhou did not let himself go. He did not give up either the research on the "Kuafu" project or the research on dark matter and dark energy under the grand unified theory.
To the point that even Old Pan was a little surprised. Chen Zhou, who used to be a hands-off boss, now asks about the research progress of each laboratory every once in a while and asks for first-hand research data.
He could only sigh that the commander-in-chief probably thought they were too slow and wanted to speed up the research on the "Kuafu" project.
Time passes like this day by day.
For many people, they may not be able to make effective use of their time every day, but for Chen Zhou, every day is effective time.
Soon, 2020 has come to the end of the year.
On New Year’s Day of the new year, an announcement was released on the official website of Yenching Institute of Natural Sciences Theoretical and Luzhou Institute of Applied Science and Technology respectively.
The contents of the two announcements are both about the establishment of academic journals by the institute.
Although the Luzhou Institute of Applied Science and Technology has not yet been completed, after discussion by the academic committee, it was finally decided to issue an announcement under this name.
This also makes it easier to tell the outside world that the nature of the two academic journals is mainly theoretical and applied respectively.
The names of the two journals are "Qiushi" and "Qiushi" respectively.
Naturally, the one belonging to the Institute of Theoretical Studies is "Qiushi", and the one belonging to the Institute of Technology is "Qiushi".
In fact, during the process of journal establishment, there were many different voices in the academic committee .
First of all, although the Yenching Institute of Theoretical Sciences is a comprehensive institute, it is divided into four major colleges: the School of Mathematics, the School of Physics, the School of Chemistry, and the School of Biology.
Although multidisciplinary intersections in academic research are inevitable, when it comes down to it, everyone still has their own specialized fields.
Therefore, some people suggested not to establish a comprehensive academic journal, but to establish four corresponding academic journals according to the nature of the four major colleges, and make them specialized academic journals.
This point was the most discussed, and people including Deligne agreed with this idea, but it was rejected by Chen Zhou in the end.
However, Chen Zhou simply rejected the idea of establishing four journals. He felt that one comprehensive journal would be enough.
As for specialization, this can be achieved through different topics such as mathematics, physics, etc. when each issue of the journal is published.
This publishing concept also directly led to a peculiar phenomenon in the academic community later.
That is, corresponding to the four seasons of the year, mathematics, physics, chemistry and biology each take up one quarter.
During this quarter, research results in a certain discipline are published in batches.
Of course, in order to ensure the timeliness of the journal and research results, the journal will not reject research results from other disciplines during a certain theme season.
Even if the research results are of extraordinary importance, a special issue will be published to publish them.
In this way, the research results of the four basic disciplines of natural sciences can be included as a whole under the framework of the Qiushi journal.
The second point of discussion was about the choice of names for the two journals.
This was actually a process in which everyone spoke widely, discussed enthusiastically, and expressed their own opinions. Then Chen Zhou directly decided on the two names "Qiushi" and "Qiushi" according to his own ideas.
Chen Zhou naturally explained to everyone his reasoning behind choosing these two names.
In his view, the essence of theoretical research is to explore the internal principles of all things and seek answers to various questions, which is a process of seeking truth.
The essence of applied scientific research is to apply various principles to practice and to turn theory into practical technology, which is a realistic process.
"Seeking truth" is in line with the nature of theoretical research in natural sciences, while "seeking realism" is in line with the nature of applied scientific and technological research.
After hearing Chen Zhou's explanation, the members of the academic committee stopped hesitating and immediately decided on the names of the two journals.
After the announcement from the two research institutes came out, it immediately caused heated discussions in the academic community.
Many people are eager to submit their research results to these two journals according to the submission method in the announcement.
They feel that the earlier they submit their work, the better the advantage they will have.
After all, these are journals founded by Chen Zhou. There is no doubt that these two journals will become top journals in the academic world.
And this process will definitely not take too long.
According to Chen Zhou's previous research efficiency, as long as he publishes a few papers in these two journals, the importance of these two journals will increase rapidly.
In addition, many people believe that the establishment of these two journals is another major effort by Chen Zhou to transfer the world's academic center to China.
After all, top research institutions, top researchers, and top academic journals make a complete set.
This once again caused tension among many research institutions around the world, and they began to deal with the impact brought by the two research institutes founded by Chen Zhou.
Even though they know that this response is mostly futile and at best will delay the relocation of the academic center, it is better than doing nothing.
For a time, the number of journal publications around the world increased dramatically, surprising many scholars.
After a period of time, someone counted the acceptance data of major journals and suddenly discovered that the acceptance rates of "Qiushi" and "Qiushi" were actually the lowest.
However, those world-class journals have relaxed their acceptance rates.
Under this influence, "Qiushi" and "Qiushi" have been moving forward step by step towards the established goal of becoming top journals.
Although he has invested some of his energy in the development of the research institute, Chen Zhou has been conducting research on various topics in an orderly manner.
Perhaps driven by his urgent enthusiasm for first-hand research data, Mr. Pan and others also worked very hard.
We have started to work on the new research direction discussed at the last seminar in the laboratory, hoping to complete the research at the experimental level as soon as possible.
Finally, after Labor Day in May 2021, good news came from the laboratory...
