Top Student at Their Peak-Chapter 195 - 102: Insightful Eyes_6

Turning his head to look at the seating area below the stage, Qiao Yu estimated that it could hold about fifty people. However, except for the first row which had a row of tables, the rest only had chairs.

To his surprise, he and Old Xue were not the first to arrive. By this time, there were already more than thirty people in the meeting room.

Other than the first row being empty, there didn’t seem to be many seats left at the back.

He wondered where all these people usually hid, as he felt he hadn’t encountered many people in the past few days.

Even more surprising was seeing three senior sisters.

Qiao Yu almost couldn’t resist taking out his phone to snap a photo for Lan Jie to see...

Who said there were no girls in the School of Mathematics? The good guy must have been making a sweeping generalization.

Attending a math lecture, you can casually spot three senior sisters. This is enough to show that the good guy not seeing girls during his studies wasn’t the fault of Mathematics, but rather the school’s issue. Shuangdan University must reflect on this...

Qiao Yu and Old Xue also attracted quite a few glances, especially Qiao Yu.

They probably didn’t expect such a young college student to attend the lecture, Qiao Yu thought, and then started to head towards the back rows of the meeting room.

No choice; at Railway First Middle School, he was already used to sitting in the back of the classroom where teachers paid less attention, but Xue Song pulled him back.

"Where are you going? Our seats are over there, to the right!"

"Huh?" Qiao Yu was startled for a moment and then obediently followed Xue Song to the first row on the far right.

Well, having a table in front is quite convenient, not for the bottled water, but mainly for taking notes more easily.

Qiao Yu didn’t bring a laptop, just a serious notebook costing 12 yuan each that could only be used for notes and a water-based pen, along with five sheets of A4 paper for summarizing mathematical thoughts.

Listening to a lecture mainly relies on using your brain.

As Qiao Yu sat there, people occasionally came in, and Mr. Xue was right. Qiao Yu observed that by 8:55, the entire meeting room was almost full, with some even standing in the aisles.

Including the seats in the first row.

Everyone who came in would intentionally or unintentionally glance at him, and some professors came over to greet Old Xue, exchanging a few words with him as well.

Senior Brother Chen had also finished the pre-talk debugging and then sat in the first row, a bit towards the center, with an aisle separating him from Qiao Yu and Old Xue but leaving the seat closer to Old Xue available.

When Qiao Yu saw Senior Brother Chen walk down, he specifically looked at him, and when their eyes met, Qiao Yu returned a friendly smile. Indeed, the senior brother regarded him as important as air.

At lecture time, Director Tian accompanied Professor Robert into the meeting room.

The two of them walked together to the stage, with Director Tian picking up the microphone first.

"Hello everyone, today our Yanbei International Mathematics Research Center is very honored to have invited Professor Robert Green from New York University to give us this lecture. He is an outstanding scholar in the field of Number Theory, particularly with many breakthroughs in the study of Algebra and the distribution of rational points.

Today, he will present a lecture on exact estimation methods for the upper bound of rational points on special curves. This issue holds significant importance in Number Theory and is closely linked to many other branches of mathematics. Let’s warmly welcome Professor Robert!"

After speaking, amidst the applause from the audience, Director Tian stepped down from the stage and sat beside Chen Zhuoyang, leaving the stage to Professor Robert.

At this time, Robert Green, after acknowledging the audience on stage, also sat down at the podium, tested the microphone, and said fluently in English: "Thanks to Professor Tian for the introduction, and thanks to everyone for coming.

Today, I will share with you the latest results of my team and me on the method of estimating the upper bound of rational points on a certain class of special curves. This problem has been a crucial topic in modern Number Theory, especially impactful in understanding the properties of curves, and I hope..."

Xue Song, who had been sitting there as steady as a mountain, took the opportunity during Robert Green’s introductory remarks to unceremoniously take the prepared questions from Qiao Yu and handed them over to Tian Yanzhen, separated only by an aisle.

Qiao Yu hadn’t even reacted yet, and half of the items in front of him were gone.

Oh well, who’s the teacher, who’s right.

Qiao Yu glanced at Director Tian not far away, then dutifully focused on the professor at the podium and listened to the report.

Fortunately, the non-essential parts of Professor Robert’s introduction were over, and he began to get to the point, with the PPT displaying the first example directly.

"We start with a familiar problem, the Mordell curve, an elliptic curve of the form y^2 = x^3 + k, where k is a constant. According to Faltings’ Theorem, we know that for a non-singular algebraic curve with genus g≥2, there are only finitely many rational points.

Although this provides the finiteness of the number of rational points, it does not offer a precise upper bound. In our recent research, by combining Galois representations, the Chabauty method, and Coleman integrals, we further optimized the estimation of the number of rational points on certain specific classes of curves, such as hyperelliptic curves and some low-genus curves..."

Qiao Yu listened attentively and then roughly understood that this big shot’s recent achievement was to directly improve the upper bound of the number of rational points from the classic O(d^2) to O(d \log d), where d represents the degree of the curve.

For Qiao Yu, who had just set half a foot in the mathematical world, whether this counted as a significant advancement, he wasn’t too sure either.

However, Qiao Yu could see that while introducing this latest achievement, the professor at the podium was clearly very pleased.

Judging people by himself, this probably indicated that at least in this field, this achievement should be impressive, right? Otherwise, why would he be pleased? It’s just like him as a math novice, who is now too lazy to boast about a paper he published earlier in his friends’ group because looking back now, he feels that paper wasn’t anything special.

So if this achievement was nothing, Professor Robert probably wouldn’t be interested in showing off in front of people like them.

Although Qiao Yu listened to the lecture very carefully, his peripheral vision was also always on his own mentor.

Sure enough, his own Director Tian was just there out of courtesy.

The person came, but his heart didn’t; he was absorbed in reading his manuscript.

Judging by this stance, Qiao Yu suspected that Director Tian was here today out of courtesy and wouldn’t attend tomorrow’s lecture at all.

Wait, there’s movement with Director Tian, Qiao Yu saw him asking Senior Brother Chen next to him for a pen and then writing a line on his manuscript.

Seeing Director Tian put down the pen, Qiao Yu immediately sat upright and looked sternly at Professor Robert on the stage. Sure enough, in his peripheral vision, he saw Director Tian naturally look back to him and pass the manuscript to Old Xue.

Old Xue glanced at the writing on the manuscript and then casually placed it on the table, without disturbing Qiao Yu, who seemed to be focusing on the lecture.

But for Qiao Yu, who was observant in all directions, this clearly wasn’t a problem.

He had already seen clearly what was written on it.

"From 3:00 to 3:45 this afternoon, a small exchange meeting will be held in Room P2. Dr. Robert can be invited to discuss and verify its feasibility." freeweɓnovel.cøm

See, he always said his own Director Tian had a sharp eye...

And practice proved it was indeed so.