Chapter 973 Invite him to a meeting!


    ?After the production of Turbofan 10 has been successfully finalized, the project establishment work of Turbofan 20 and QC300 gas turbines...


    Of course we won’t start right away.


    ?Chang Haonan is not a devil.


    The buffer period must still be left for comrades.


    Otherwise, he doesn’t have to stress about completing the appraisal meeting before the Spring Festival.


    ??The day after Chang Haonan returned to the capital from Shengjing, it was already the 29th day of the twelfth lunar month.


    By the way, he also asked his parents to be brought to the capital.


    At the moment, the management of holidays is not so strict, so the holiday starts from the first day of the first lunar month. However, in fact, many less important positions no longer work on New Year''s Eve.


    Basically, the twenty-nine is the last serious working day.


    Since the lunar year and the natural year do not coincide, Chang Haonan does not have much to do such as year-end summary.


    ? It is customary on this day to send written New Year greetings to leaders, subordinates or acquaintances in four capacities: myself, a professor at Beihang University, the general manager of Torch Group, and the chief planner of Aviation Power Group.


    It is similar to the New Year greetings messages many years later. Although most cases can be dealt with with unified copy and paste, there are still some people who need to pay attention individually.


    Handwritten signatures are a good way to do this.


    And deploy some businesses that cannot be suspended even during the Spring Festival holiday.


    For example, external liaison and so on.


    Other partners don’t celebrate the Spring Festival.


    For such a large group, it is impossible to completely shut down.


    ??When Chang Haonan finished processing the last congratulatory letter, he felt that his wrists were already a little sore.


    So, he called Zhang Liangping and asked him to come over and take the letters and seal them separately.


    The subsequent letter delivery work will naturally be completed by a dedicated person, and Chang Haonan does not need to do it himself.


    Next, just wait for Zhang Liangping to come over and simply arrange the work for the next few days to him, and today''s task will be considered over.


    As New Year’s Eve approaches, even Chang Haonan is ready to catch a fish and go home early—


    I worked overtime crazily when the Turbofan 10 was not finalized. Now that the Turbofan 10 is finalized, if I still work overtime crazily, wouldn’t the Turbofan 10 be finalized in vain?


    However.


    ?When the office door was knocked and then pushed open, Chang Haonan''s heart, which had been released, suddenly sank.


    Because, besides Zhang Liangping, there was also Song Jingming who was wearing a cotton coat and his shoulders covered with snowflakes...


    At this time, the latter ran over to find him despite the heavy snow, obviously it was impossible just to pay New Year greetings.


    ?Zhang Liangping quickly collected all the letters on the table. Chang Haonan motioned to him to go back first and talk about work later.


    So, only Chang Haonan and Song Jingming were left in the office.


    “Mr. Chang, I wish you a Happy New Year in advance!”


    ?Song Jingming came up and paid his respects to Chang Haonan.


    “Okay, happy New Year to you too.”


    The latter waved his hand and motioned for the other party to sit wherever he wanted:


    “Let’s talk about something...”


    When Song Jingming saw this, he got to the point directly:


    “That’s right, we have basically completed the preparations for the Numerical Algorithm and Computational Science Conference you arranged previously, and the plan is to hold it at the end of March.”


    “The entire process is basically in line with the highest-level academic conferences in other industries. There is nothing special about it. There are just two things that you need to confirm in person.”


    He said as he took out a notebook from his pocket and opened it:


    "The first is the numerical calculation competition before the conference. Since we promoted it at the end of last year, so far, the number of registered universities and research institutions has exceeded three digits, and many schools have multiple teams registered. The total number of participants It must be more than a thousand."


    “Considering that the competition will be held offline, should we consider setting up a preliminary round or group stage in several locations, and finally select only the top one-fifth or one-quarter of the teams to participate in the finals?”


    “After all... if there are too many people, it will also be stressful for our review team and field management team.”


    As the chief planner and directly responsible person, Song Jingming still felt a little guilty about arranging foreigners of this scale.


    Have never had any relevant experience in the past.


    “There’s no need to make it so complicated”


    Fortunately, Chang Haonan has already considered these things relatively maturely:


    “The preliminary competition can be held online, with several relatively low-level questions set up, and each participating group submitting corresponding engineering documents, and we will evaluate the calculation results.”


    “Besides…what’s there to worry about when there are so many people?”


    Chang Haonan smiled:


    “We don’t need to pay for the contestants’ travel expenses, food and accommodation. They come in large numbers and they always have to spend money in the surrounding areas. Wouldn’t it actually promote the economy...”


    ??Torch Group still has 100 million points of influence in the numerical computing business.


    ?Be it competitions or conferences, except for a few big players, there is no need to attract foreigners to participate by issuing subsidies.


    As long as you set up an honor with enough influence and a bonus, it is enough.


    ?However, after Song Jingming heard this, he frowned with concern:


    “But Mr. Chang, our competition rules prohibit instructors from participating. If we use an online method, how can we prevent contestants from cheating?”


    “It’s easy, don’t avoid it”


    Chang Haonan gave the answer almost without thinking:


    “Our preliminary round is not based on the overall proportion, but based on the school or institution. That is, each school can only send one undergraduate group and one graduate group to participate in the finals.”


    "In this way, no matter what form they use to pass the preliminary round, they will have to show their true results offline in the finals. If they find the instructor to cheat in the preliminary round, it will only make their school more embarrassed in the final..." This idea actually puts the pressure of preliminary selection on the school''s head.


    ??If the school does not want to be embarrassed in front of its peers, it must ensure that the team it sends is strong enough and naturally has incentives to fight against cheating.


    ?Of course, it is impossible to completely guarantee fairness in online competitions.


    But first of all, the fairness aspect is guaranteed by the finals, so it won’t be particularly ugly.


    Secondly…


    ?The core purpose of this competition is not to sort participating schools into thirds, sixths, or ninths, but to dig a hole for COMSOL to jump into—


    ? Even if all foreign teams choose to use TORCH Multiphysics software to compete, Chang Haonan himself will specially arrange for a few less prominent domestic schools to use rival products.


    Combined with specially designed tricky questions...


    In short, after the final results come out, everyone will notice the serious loopholes in COMSOL Multiphysics'' CFD calculations.


    As for who is the champion…


    There is a high probability that no one is paying attention to it.


    …


    “Then…there’s another thing.”


    After writing down Chang Haonan’s instructions, Song Jingming took out a folder from his briefcase and placed it in front of Chang Haonan:


    “This is the list of special guests for this conference. Is there anything you want to add or delete?”


    Special guests, as the name suggests.


    Compared to ordinary participants who submit their own applications and receive approval, the people on this list are actively invited by Torch Group to attend the conference.


    ?Of course, there are definitely differences in treatment.


    At least it is impossible for these people to pay for food and accommodation at their own expense like other participants.


    ?Chang Haonan opened the folder and found that there was a list of three pages in total, front and back.


    In addition to the name and work unit, there are also main academic achievements, contact information, personal willingness to participate in the conference, and a headshot.


    Approximately twelve or three people have been confirmed to be able to come.


    ?Basically all the big names in the field of numerical computing who are still active in the academic frontline—


    ?This field is too close to engineering and relies more on experience than theory in most cases. Therefore, it is not as easy to produce many famous names as in subjects such as mathematics or physics.


    ?Except for a few outliers such as Anthony Jameson and of course Chang Haonan himself, few people can single-handedly make any huge achievements that promote the development of the entire research field.


    ?Hence, even Chang Haonan can hardly think of any missing candidates.


    He closed the folder and prepared to end the conversation:


    “That’s it…”


    ?However, at this moment, a name suddenly flashed in his mind.


    Harold Huang.


    It is the professor who contributed to the first issue of JCAS journal.


    ?The other party used a method called "high-order flux reconstruction (FR to unify several compact and high-precision formats that have appeared in recent years.


    ?This result did not cause much trouble at the time, and the number of subsequent citations could only be considered moderate, but Chang Haonan was very optimistic about its development prospects.


    It just needs to further promote its application scope.


    Originally, his plan was to invest some resources in this direction after the 2.0 version update of TORCMultiphysics was completed.


    But after that time, Chang Haonan seemed to have never seen papers published in the name of the other party.


    “Old Song Dynasty.”


    He reopened the folder, took out a pen, wrote "Harrod. Huynh" at the end of the list, and handed it to the other party:


    "There is a professor named Harold Huang at Ohio State University. I will send you his email address and research group URL later. You can contact him to see if he is willing to attend the meeting. If so, Together as special guests.”


    “Harold Huang…”


    ?Song Jingming took the folder:


    “Are you of Chinese descent?”


    “It doesn’t look like it.”


    Chang Haonan shook his head:


    “It should just be a coincidence of the transliteration of the surname.”


    “When I looked up information before, I seemed to have never heard of this name...”


    ?Song Jingming frowned slightly, worried that there might have been some oversight in his work.


    “You’re right if you haven’t heard of it.”


    Chang Haonan leaned back on his chair, turned around and looked at the snowy scene outside the window:


    “This guy is not very well-known in academia, and I wouldn’t have known his name if he hadn’t happened to contribute a paper.”


    "But this kind of person is the one we should focus on..."


    After confirming that it was not his fault, Song Jingming breathed a sigh of relief:


    “Then, the reason for the special invitation in the meeting communiqué…”


    “Just write what I invited.”


    ?Chang Haonan replied simply and neatly.


    (End of this chapter)