Top Student at Their Peak

It's not like he can repeat his paper on the Geometric Langlands Conjecture at the World Conference on Algebraic Geometry.

"Just talk about your Modal Space Theory. Elder Yuan and I both feel this will be the most important direction in future number theory and geometry research. This opportunity is also something we fought to get for you.

Last time, you withdrew your project application, so let's forget that. After such a long time, you've got to write a preliminary paper outlining your ideas and submit it for the committee's review. Don't underestimate the Math Annual Conference; it's already the top academic conference in the country."

Tian Yanzhen directly chose the topic for Qiao Yu.

Qiao Yu felt a bit clueless...

Submitting to a top journal for the first time without informing his supervisor, and it coincided with the Mathematics Society's conference?

The key issue now is that he has already submitted to Ann.Math, and according to the backend feedback, it's only been two days since the editorial office started the peer review process. It seems a bit inappropriate to present a paper at the conference that hasn't been published yet...

Noticing that something seemed off with Qiao Yu, Tian Yanzhen frowned and asked, "What's wrong? You haven't been doing nothing for more than a month, right? Even if you haven't done anything, having more than twenty days to complete an overview paper to submit to the committee is difficult for you?"

Qiao Yu shook his head and replied, "Well... Director Tian, I was going to give you and Elder Yuan a pleasant surprise... I've already written the paper you're talking about and submitted two papers to Ann.Math, both of which are now in the review stage."

This left Tian Yanzhen baffled.

He knew Qiao Yu writes papers quickly, as if inspiration always surrounds him, but didn't expect it to be this fast.

How long has it been? This guy has already organized papers and submitted them to Ann.Math?

Wait a minute... something seems off.

Tian Yanzhen frowned and confirmed, "Did you just say two papers?"

Qiao Yu nodded quickly and said, "Yeah, two papers. One by me, and one by Senior Brother Chen. It's a bit inappropriate to speak about an unpublished paper at a conference, can't really submit it twice, can we?

I could rush out another paper, but if I don't discuss the prerequisite theorems, I'm afraid people at the conference won't understand what I'm trying to express."

The office was silent for a few seconds, and Tiān Yánzhēn was amused into a laugh...

"Senior Brother Chen? Chen Zhuoyang? He has a paper too? Alright, alright, alright, send the papers to me for a look."

Alright, actually, demanding unpublished papers isn't very polite, but since it was a request from his own mentor, Qiao Yu didn't hesitate and quickly ran to the mentor's computer to operate it.

Very soon, he downloaded the two papers from his email's attachment library.

"This one, 'The Fundamental Theoretical Construction of the Generalized Modal Number Theory Axiom System,' I'm the first author, and the other one is first-authored by Senior Brother Chen."

"Let me see your submission backend..."

"Oh..."

Soon, the backend proved that the papers had indeed reached the stage of finding reviewers, as after all, that "Under Review" doesn't lie.

Tian Yanzhen glanced at the submission date, only to acknowledge the speedy work of the Mathematical Yearbook editorial department, which found reviewers in just two days, an astounding pace for a top mathematics editorial office.

Still, Tian Yanzhen wasn't aware that it was Lott Degen who personally invited the reviewers, and had also borrowed Pierre Derini's evaluation... naturally, everyone would give some respect.

Without more ado with Qiao Yu, Tian Yanzhen spent over ten minutes skimming through the two papers, and instantly understood roughly what was going on.

He put down the papers, glanced at Qiao Yu, and said, "You're really good to Chen Zhuoyang."

Qiao Yu grinned, "Ah, it's not just for your sake. Senior Brother is your student, and he's been having a hard time recently at Jinzhou University, he was too embarrassed to tell you, so I had to step in."

"Oh? Having a hard time? What happened?" Tian Yanzhen frowned and asked.

"Ah, you don't know..."

Qiao Yu immediately recounted what Chen Zhuoyang had told him, adding some embellishments along the way.

Finally, he angrily concluded, "...that's about it, they're just bullying Senior Brother Chen for being too honest. If it were me, I'd set them straight in eighteen different ways!"

Tian Yanzhen, expression unreadable, nodded, then glared at Qiao Yu: "Alright then, but the report on the morning of the fourth can't be changed. Think about it yourself, and see what other paper you can write up. Submit it to me by the twenty-fifth!"

"By the twenty-fifth? Are you sure?" Qiao Yu was stunned.

Tian Yanzhen sneered and said, "What else? After submitting, the committee still needs to review it. Do you think you can just go up there and babble? Go make the preparations! You can already submit to Ann.Math, and this little problem is stumping you?"

Feeling that his mentor seemed genuinely displeased, Qiao Yu could only nod helplessly and mutter, "Well, I'll try my best. But, I really just wanted to give you a pleasant surprise..."

Is this a surprise...

Isn't this just a fright!