"When I went to see Professor Liu today, he told me some things in this regard, and I just wanted to know more about it," Zhao Xiancai explained.

Hearing what Zhao Xiancai said, Ding Daoliang and the others naturally heard that Zhao Xiancai had the intention to participate in the mathematics competition.

"Why did you suddenly change your mind again?"

"Yes, you are ready to publish your paper on JDE. No matter what kind of scholarship it is, as long as it is not the kind that only graduates can receive, it should be fine."

"You're not doing it for the thousands of dollars the school will get after you win the prize, are you?"

Zhang Qiuyu and the others asked Zhao Xiancai one after another.

"How is it possible? Am I the kind of person who changes my mind casually just for money?

It was Professor Liu who told me to participate in more competitions and communicate with more people, and not to close myself off in a small circle.

I think Professor Liu is right. The reason why college life is different from high school is because you have more time and opportunities to participate in more activities and get to know people from all over the country."

Zhao Xiancai explained sternly, completely denying that he was interested in these competitions because of the thousands of dollars.

However, the more seriously Zhao Xiancai said it, the less Zhang Qiuyu and the others believed it.

Zhao Xiancai didn't care whether they believed it or not. After returning to his seat, he opened his laptop, opened the web page, and began to fill in the author's correspondence address, email and other miscellaneous information.

"By the way, you went to see Professor Liu again today? Why did you go to see Professor Liu today?"

After seeing Zhao Xiancai return to the dormitory, he started playing with an English website again. The friends in the dormitory also asked curiously.

"The paper is finished. I'll check with Professor Liu. If there are no problems, I will send it out." Zhao Xiancai said while filling in his information.

"Finished? So soon?"

"What did Professor Liu say?"

"What else can I say? Look at what he is doing now. He has started logging into the website. There must be nothing wrong with him.

But Zhao Xiancai, you are getting more and more outrageous. It has only been a few days and you have already finished writing the paper?

With your level of strength, you still have to participate in any competition. I think you feel like you are bullying the smaller ones when you participate in the competition now."

"Well, I've finished writing, and I'm working on the account now." Zhao Xiancai continued talking while working on it.

After about twenty minutes, he uploaded the paper. At this time, the status of his paper changed from IE to manual submitted.

The "ie" status indicates that the submitted or revised manuscript is being edited by the author, that is, the submission is not complete.

The "manuscript submitted" status means that the manuscript has been submitted and the author does not need to process it. It can only wait for review by the editorial department.

Although "Journal of Differential Equations" is an American journal, and its website is all in English, domestic networks can still access it, not to mention that Zhao Xiancai is using a campus network. The campus networks of some domestic schools can also be accessed through Google.

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Therefore, Zhao Xiancai did not need to use any tools such as circumvention when submitting his paper.

After uploading, Zhao Xiancai was ready to shut down the computer and go to bed to rest for a while, so that he could recharge himself for the afternoon class and go to the library to continue reading the "Preliminary Differential Geometry" that he had not yet finished.

In the past, if there were no classes in the first or second period in the afternoon and the third or fourth period in the morning, Zhao Xiancai would rest in the library. Today, this is a special situation.

When Zhao Xiancai got up from his sleep and turned on the computer to check the status of his paper, he was shocked.

Because at this time, the status of his paper has changed to "under review", which means that his paper has entered the external review stage, and then he only needs to wait patiently.

Generally, if the format of the manuscript submitted by the author does not meet the specifications, there will be a "sent back to author" status after "manuscript submitted", which means that the submitted manuscript has not passed the (format) review and needs to be modified by the author.

And if it passes the format review, it will be in the status of with editor and reviewer invited.

Usually, after a manuscript is submitted, it will go to the editor-in-chief first, and then the editor-in-chief will assign the manuscript to editors in the same field for processing.

At this stage, the journal editor mainly conducts technical reviews of the manuscript, such as formatting, charts, word count, etc. The duration depends on the editing processing speed. This is the [with editor] state.

The [reviewer invited] status means that the paper has passed the preliminary review by the editor, the journal has invited reviewers to review the manuscript, and is waiting for the reviewer's reply.

Sometimes reviewers may refuse to review a manuscript for various reasons. At this time, the editor needs to re-invite other reviewers, which will cause the manuscript to stay in this status for a long time.

Under normal circumstances, these states are far from enough for Zhao Xiancai to just sleep.

"It seems that I won't need to refresh this website too frequently in the future. If it passes, the system will definitely prompt me that the task has been completed."

Zhao Xiancai thought this in his mind and quickly shut down the computer.

For a period of time after the paper was published, Zhao Xiancai went to class as usual every day. When not in class, he went to the library to study "Differential Geometry."

During this period, a meeting was also held within the School of Mathematical Sciences at Peking University.

“The undergraduate research reward system of our School of Mathematics should also be updated.”

"Update? Isn't this great now? Undergraduate students can apply for research grants and get credits."

"Yes, if the papers published by undergraduate students are slightly better, they can also apply for various scholarships. What else needs to be updated?"

"Last year, a new student named Zhao Xiancai came to the School of Mathematics. He was one of the four IMO gold medal winners with perfect scores last year. When the school started at the beginning of this year, the school made an exception and allowed him to apply for sophomore exemption courses, and he passed them all.

Even if you have never met him, you must have heard his name.

Recently, Professor Liu said that this student Zhao has excellently completed a paper that at least requires an outstanding doctoral student to complete, and is preparing to publish it in the "Journal of Differences".

Everyone is familiar with the journal JDE, which is already in the second zone. Many doctoral students in schools cannot publish in the second zone until they graduate.

In order to praise Mr. Zhao for his behavior and to encourage other undergraduates to actively participate in scientific research projects, I am planning to change the scientific research reward system of our school or add some rewards. What do you think?"

"Zhao Xiancai? This new student has indeed gained quite a reputation in our Mathematical School recently. Especially those of us who are teachers, we have almost all heard of his name.

But jde? Are you sure this undergraduate student completed the thesis by himself? What is the content of his thesis?"

Some professors also expressed doubts about what the dean said. This kind of thing is indeed unbelievable.

Mathematics is different from other subjects. In other subjects, you may be lucky and make new discoveries while doing experiments.

But mathematics is different. If you don’t know mathematics, you just don’t know it. There are no shortcuts. This is one of the reasons why many other colleges at Peking University have set up academic paper awards for undergraduate students, but not the School of Mathematics.

"Don't worry about this. Professor Liu has already assessed this student..."

…

The day after the last meeting, the School of Mathematics at Peking University released a document titled "Measures for Rewarding Academic Papers for Undergraduate Students of the School of Mathematical Sciences at Peking University."

After seeing the contents of this document, Zhao Xiancai finally made up his mind not to participate in any competitions, but to study the subsequent professional courses with peace of mind, and let the money from the competitions go to other students.

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