Chapter 973 Invite him to the meeting!

After the successful production of WS-10, the project establishment of WS-20 and QC300 gas turbines...

Of course not starting right away.

Chang Haonan is not a devil.

A buffer period still needs to be left for comrades.

Otherwise, he wouldn't have to emphasize completing the appraisal meeting before the Spring Festival.

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

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

Nowadays, the control over holidays is not so strict, so the holiday starts from the first day of the first lunar month, but in fact, many unimportant positions are no longer working on New Year's Eve.

Basically, the 29th is the last proper working day.

Since the lunar year and the natural year do not overlap, Chang Haonan does not have to do anything like year-end summary.

According to the custom on this day, I sent written New Year's greetings to a group of leaders, subordinates or acquaintances in my own capacity, as a professor of Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, as the general manager of Torch Group, and as the chief planner of Aviation Power Group.

Similar to the New Year greetings text messages many years later, although most cases can be dealt with by uniform copy and paste, there are still some people who need to be individually shown attention.

A handwritten signature is a great way to do this.

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

For example, external liaison and the like.

Other partners don’t celebrate the Spring Festival.

It is impossible for such a large group to completely shut down.

When Chang Haonan finished dealing with the last congratulatory letter, he felt his wrist was a little sore.

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

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

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

As New Year's Eve approaches, even Chang Haonan is ready to go home early.

When WS-10 was not finalized, I worked overtime like crazy. Now that WS-10 has been finalized, if I still work overtime like crazy, then wouldn’t the finalization of WS-10 have been in vain?

however.

When the office door was knocked and then pushed open, Chang Haonan's heart, which had already let go, suddenly sank.

Because, besides Zhang Liangping, there was also Song Jingming standing at the door, wearing a cotton coat with snowflakes covering his shoulders...

The latter came to see him in the heavy snow at this time, obviously it was impossible that he just came to wish him a happy new year.

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

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

"Mr. Chang, I wish you a happy new year in advance!"

Song Jingming came up and wished Chang Haonan a happy new year.

"Okay, Happy New Year to you too."

The latter waved his hand, indicating that the other party should sit anywhere:

"If you have something to say, just say it..."

Seeing this, Song Jingming also got straight to the point:

"It's like this. We have basically completed the preparations for the Numerical Algorithms and Computational Science Conference that you arranged earlier. We plan to hold it at the end of March."

"The entire process is basically the same as the highest-level academic conferences in other industries. There is nothing special about it. There are just two things you need to confirm in person."

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

"The first is the numerical computing competition before the conference. Since we started promoting it at the end of last year, the number of universities and research institutions that have signed up has exceeded three digits, and many schools have signed up with multiple teams. The total number of participants is more than a thousand."

"Considering that the competition is held offline, have you considered setting up a preliminary round or group stage in several locations, and finally selecting 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 judging team and the venue management team."

As the chief planner and direct person in charge, Song Jingming still felt a little guilty about arranging such a large number of foreigners.

I have never had any relevant experience in the past.

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

Fortunately, Chang Haonan has considered these issues more maturely:

"The preliminary round can be held online, with a few relatively easy questions, and each participating team can submit the corresponding engineering files, and we will evaluate the calculation results."

"Besides...what's there to worry about with so many people?"

Chang Haonan smiled:

"We don't have to pay for the contestants' travel expenses, food and lodging. There are so many of them coming here, so they will always spend money in the surrounding areas. Wouldn't that actually boost the economy?"

Torch Group still has considerable influence in the numerical computing business.

Whether it is a competition or a conference, except for a few bigwigs, there is no need to attract foreigners to participate by issuing subsidies.

It is enough to set up an honor that is influential enough and also provide a bonus.

However, after hearing this, Song Jingming frowned with some worry:

"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 so simple, there’s no need to avoid it”

Chang Haonan gave the answer almost without thinking:

"Our preliminary round is not based on the total percentage, but on the school or institution where the applicants are from. That means each school can only send one undergraduate group and one graduate group to participate in the finals."

"In this way, no matter how they pass the preliminary round, they will have to compete offline in the final. If they ask their instructor to cheat during the preliminary round, it will only make their school particularly embarrassed in the final..."

This kind of thinking actually puts the pressure of preliminary selection on the schools.

If the school does not want to embarrass itself in front of its peers, it must ensure that the team it sends out is strong enough so that it will naturally have the motivation to fight against cheating.

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

But on the one hand, fairness is guaranteed by the final, so it won’t be too ugly.

Secondly...

The core purpose of this competition is not to rank participating schools, but to set a trap for COMSOL to jump into.

Even if all foreign teams choose to use TORCH Multiphysics software to participate in the competition, Chang Haonan will specially arrange for several less prominent domestic schools to use competing 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...

It is likely that no one is paying attention to it anymore.

……

"Then... there is 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. Do you have anything to add or delete?"

Special guests, just as the name suggests.

Compared with ordinary participants who submitted their own applications and were approved, the people on this list were actively invited by Torch Group to attend the conference.

Of course, there are definitely differences in treatment.

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

Chang Haonan opened the folder and found a list of three pages on both sides.

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

About twelve or thirteen people have confirmed that they can come.

Basically, they are all the big guys who are still active in the academic front line in the field of numerical computing.

This field is too close to engineering and relies more on experience than theory in most cases. Therefore, it is not easy to produce many well-known names like mathematics or physics.

Apart from a few outliers like Anthony Jameson and of course Chang Haonan himself, few people can produce great results on their own to promote the development of an entire research field.

Therefore, even Chang Haonan could hardly think of any candidates that were missed.

He closed the folder and prepared to end this conversation:

"That's it..."

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

Harold Huang.

He is the professor who submitted a paper to the first issue of JCAS journal.

At that time, the other party unified several compact high-precision formats that have appeared in recent years through a method called "high-order flux reconstruction (FR)".

This achievement did not cause much sensation at the time, and the number of citations later was only average, but Chang Haonan was very optimistic about its development prospects.

However, its scope of application needs to be further expanded.

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

But after that, Chang Haonan seemed to have never seen any papers published under the other party's name again.

"Old Song."

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 website in a while. Please contact him to see if he is willing to attend the conference. If so, he can also be listed as a special guest."

"Harold Huang..."

Song Jingming took the folder:

“Are you Chinese?”

"It doesn't look like it."

Chang Haonan shook his head:

"It's probably just a coincidence that the surname is transliterated."

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

Song Jingming frowned slightly, worried that there might be some omissions in his work.

"It's right that you haven't heard of it."

Chang Haonan leaned back in his chair and turned to look at the snow scene outside the window:

“This person is not very famous in the academic world, and I would not have known this name if he had not happened to submit a paper.”

"But this kind of people are the ones we should focus on..."