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He also had a certain reputation in the international mathematical community. That was the reason why New York University had invited Xu Changshu to take a teaching position last year.

Schools naturally wouldn't want to let go of such talents; that was only to be expected.

The only issue was that Xu Changshu's contract happened to have only a few months left this year, so bringing up resignation at this time couldn't exactly be said to be wrong. Moreover, he was going to a 985 university in the central region that wasn't very well-known.

To be honest, such a move indeed required some courage.

"Was it Qiao Ze who invited you?" Zhang Hongcai asked after a moment of silence.

"Yes." Xu Changshu nodded frankly and said, "When I read Qiao Ze's paper, I had some questions and talked to him about them. I originally wanted to invite him to Yanbei, but he said he even refused Princeton, let alone Yanbei."

"So you got the idea to go there?" Zhang Hongcai asked helplessly.

"Not exactly, but he said something that moved me," Xu Changshu said with a smile.

"What did he say?" Zhang Hongcai asked.

"There are two kinds of successful people in this world; one kind needs a high platform, without which they would become ordinary; the other is needed by the platform, wherever they go, that place becomes a high platform. Which kind do you want to be?" Xu Changshu replied.

Zhang Hongcai fell silent.

From his understanding of Qiao Ze, this didn't sound like something the kid would say—it was too wordy.

But damn it, the kid indeed had the credentials to make such a statement.

There was some reluctance in his heart.

He had taken the trouble to go to Xilin to recruit someone and failed, who would have thought that this young man's words could sway the backbone of the Yanbei Mathematics Institute to the point where their heart was no longer in it.

"Ah..." After a long while, Zhang Hongcai sighed and said, "Let's go and retract your resignation application first."

"Ah? Professor Zhang... this..." Xu Changshu looked at Zhang Hongcai somewhat unwillingly.

According to the contract, if he was determined to leave, the school definitely couldn't stop him.

Even if he couldn't get a transfer, resigning and then re-entering was always an option, and the University of Technology over there had no objections, so why should it be this way?

"Qiao Ze will come to the capital this Friday and there will be two seminars scheduled, one on Saturday and one on Sunday, one at Huaqing and the other at our Yanbei. The one at Huaqing is about artificial intelligence, and ours here is on non-Abelian gauge fields."

"After the seminars, it's very likely that Qiao Ze will stay in the capital for a while, and you will have the chance to talk face to face a few times. If you still want to go then, it won't be so troublesome to have to resign and then rejoin; I'll talk to Lu and go directly through the transfer procedures. Once the transfer order is issued, it won't be held up here."

"Then, thank you, Professor Zhang." Zhang Hongcai smiled, stood up, patted Xu Changshu on the shoulder, then turned and walked away with his cup in hand.

Actually, there's no need to thank him.

With his heart set on leaving, it's useless for the school to try to keep him.

Such a promising professor should at least make a good connection.

Not to mention that, at least for now, Yanbei University School of Mathematics is not short of people.

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University of Technology at Xilin.

Qiao Ze had also received the notice.

This Friday, which is tomorrow, he would set off for the capital.

The school had already arranged two lectures for him at the top universities in Huaxia.

The specific schedule had also been sent to him.

On Friday afternoon at 2 pm, he would first give a talk at Huaqing University Science Building A304 on "Exploring the Fundamental Architecture of Artificial Intelligence and the Decoupling Causal Relationships in Group Theory Framework."

On Saturday, he would be at the Centennial Hall of Yanbei University to give a talk on "Correspondence between Non Abelian Exchange Fields and Riemannian Spaces."

The timing of the seminars was quite tight, as both universities wanted to hold the seminars on the weekend to allow more people to attend.

However, Qiao Ze did indeed plan to stay a few more days in the capital this time.

Because on Tuesday, there was another meeting about this year's National Natural Science Foundation Jieqing project selection.

Both he and Li Jiangao had received the notice for this meeting.

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It was almost in line with Qiao Ze's wishes.

If you want to be capricious, then let's all be capricious together.

As long as I'm not embarrassed, the embarrassment is on others.

But really, it wasn't too out of line.

As Qiao Ze had thought before, Li Jiangao was not his official advisor yet, at most they could only be considered to be at the same university.

Having colleagues as reviewers is nothing new.

There are so many professors from Yanbei University in the expert pool of the National Natural Science Foundation, it's difficult to perfectly avoid each other every time.

Of course, the committee was also measured in its approach.

Qiao Ze was only responsible for reviewing Li Jiangao's case.

The experts who were also reviewing Li Jiangao's project application had been confirmed.

Two members of the Science Academy, one of whom was a chair professor at Yanbei University—Feng Zhengming, whose main research direction was statistical analysis of super high-dimensional big data and non-parametric statistical methods, and the other was Professor Yao Yuanzhi, who had invited Qiao Ze to give a talk at Huaqing.

Leave on Friday, return the next Wednesday; this trip to the capital would last nearly a week.

The accompanying personnel had also been confirmed: Li Jiangao, Yu Chenggong, whom Qiao Ze had personally requested, and student Su.

This time it truly wasn't Su Mucheng who proactively requested to accompany Qiao Ze, but rather the school, considering the actual situation, particularly Qiao Ze's difficulty in social interactions, had specifically decided to have Su Mucheng alongside.

There was no helping it; no one worried about the success of the seminars, but everyone was quite concerned about the socializing after the seminars ended.