Qiu Chengtong: Graduate students want to take an adventure road

Author:Scientific network Time:2022.08.03

Text | "China Newspaper" reporter Han Yangmei

On the evening of July 31, during the 9th Chinese World Mathematics Conference (ICCM), the awards ceremony of the 2022 ICCM Graduation thesis award was successfully held.

Qiu Chengtong, a professor at Tsinghua University, a postgraduate of Qiu Chengtong Mathematics Center of Tsinghua University, sent a graduate student to train a road of adventure and can explore an important research direction in learning.

"The ICCM graduation thesis award has been established for 15 years. The reason for the establishment was that I was worried that Chinese graduate and undergraduate students could not keep up with the level of foreign countries. I hope to improve the level of domestic graduate students." Qiu Chengtong said when he talked about his original intention.

He is very relieved that today, we can proudly say that after years of accumulation, we have the world's top teachers and the ability to cultivate the best students in the world. Chinese mathematicians can be comparable to international peers. Our middle school students and college students have reached the world level. Undergraduates can be compared with MIT (MIT). However, there is still a long way to go.

"What is the level of science and technology in a country? It is not how much industries and how much money to make, but the level of college graduate students. This is the most important indicator. Internationally, good graduate students are constantly being academic, industrial, and even the entire entire. Social injection of innovation forces has become an important indicator of national scientific and technological progress. "Qiu Chengtong said.

Qiu Chengtong chatted with the President of Harvard University. The dean said that after Harvard University began to establish a research institute at the end of the 19th century, Harvard became a major town of the university. Therefore, the research institute is the most important place in the academic world. "The strongness of a country is at the research institute, and the graduate student is the 'stripper' that leads the entire country to go forward."

Talking about the differences in graduate students at home and abroad, Qiu Chengtong said that domestic universities still regard graduate students as apprentices and students, and graduate students are still studying with teachers, but foreign graduate schools basically regard graduate students as researchers, but they are a little younger. , But the point of view is important.

Qiu Chengtong believes that graduate treatment should be improved, research funds and living funds should be provided, and better guarantee for them to enter the research path. At the same time, graduate students must also be independent in life. "The funding for graduate students in China is much less than foreign countries. If a graduate student cannot support himself independently in life, it is difficult to imagine that the level of research can have independent and in -depth research results. We hope that graduate students will be able to live in life in life. Independence is at least the best graduate student. "

Many important doctoral dissertations in the history of science have become important documents and changed the direction of a discipline.

"In the next few years, we have to break the blockade of China abroad. The most important thing is to manage the graduate students of the research institute. Graduate students are very important and can change the entire study style." Qiu Chengtong said. To cultivate students' self -reliance, let them consider the topic by themselves, and train in a deep direction. Encourage students to take an adventure, an important academic path to lead the future scientific research direction.

Qiu Chengtong remembers that he left Hong Kong on September 1, 1969 to the United States and find a house by himself. On Christmas, the classmates went home. He read books in the library alone and read a lot of books. "I found an article in the library, and I learned how to promote it myself. I did not expect that I completed this study after a few weeks. At that time, many studies were a direction that I could explore."

Qiu Chengtong believes that he can get out of his own path and benefit from a good academic atmosphere. "I find that my classmates are ambitious and want to take my own way."

"We have to take a meaningful life and find a meaningful research direction, which is what our mathematicians want to achieve." Qiu Chengtong hopes that universities can create such a style of study and establish a system, so that our students can discuss freely , Freely walk the academic direction they are going to, so that students can find a way to go out of a farce.

Doing research not only requires the master's leadership, but also requires mutual inspiration and help between students and students.

Qiu Chengtong said that we expect our scholars to communicate more and use their own ideas to motivate each other. In the past, our scholars were often afraid of their thoughts, although it would happen. "I have done research all my life and got a lot of ideas from my many friends, but many people also used my ideas to use it. In general, my benefits are much larger than losses, so I hope that students and mathematicians can Looking at learning from this view, opening your mind, and communicating with each other is still important. "

"At present, it is the competition of talents in the world (era). The growth of American universities not only depends on American students, but also rely on a large number of students in the world's best schools. I hope we will let the best students in the world join our research institute together. The research atmosphere can be cultivated. "Qiu Chengtong really looked forward to five or ten years later, China became a math power, and I hope everyone can help!

It is understood that this year's ICCM graduation thesis award has produced a total of 19 winners. Gu Chenlin, the School of Higher Normal University, France, Fan Youwei, Harvard University in the United States, Zheng Zhiwei, Tsinghua University, Wang Jian, Fourier Institute of France, Chen Bingyi, Tsinghua University, and Harvard University Lin Yuexi won the Gold Award for PhDs; Essence In addition, the conference also selected 3 silver awards for doctoral dissertations, 2 master's papers silver awards, and 6 bachelor's paper silver awards.

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