"Please be sure to make mistakes!" This is the "coming over" to the young people.
"Being with them has made me firm about what is the true love of my heart." This is the response of young people.
Last night, on the shore of Dishui Lake, before the official opening of the Fourth World Top Scientist Forum, the "Youth Heavenly Group" took the lead! The 4th World Top Scientists Science Congress was held here. The "First Lesson in Science", jointly organized by the Shanghai Center of the World's Top Scientists Association and the Youth Science and Technology Center of the China Association for Science and Technology, invited more than 80 young scientists who had been selected by the whole country to sit in the special classroom to dialogue with their predecessors and speak out to the future.
Pictured: Levitt gives 8 suggestions to young people in one breath Xinmin Evening News reporter Xu Cheng photographed
Message: Young people, don't be afraid to make mistakes
T． It means Teenager (teenage), it also means hope.
This year's T conference was the first to set up a small scientist debut session, watching young people confidently walk on the stage one by one, and then paste their photos on the "class list" wall, and the vice president of the World's Top Scientists Association and the winner of the 2013 Nobel Prize in Chemistry Michael Levitt applauded each young figure.
"It's not the first time I've been here, I talk to young people a lot, they always have new ideas, the future belongs to young people, it's young people who drive the world. The greatest value of our old scientists is to help you, so that you can get encouragement and guidance. In his speech, Levitte made no secret of his love for the younger generation.
"Right now we are facing a lot of problems, such as climate warming, food safety, how to deal with the new world presented by artificial intelligence. No one knows where the answer is. We need to solve all kinds of problems with emerging technologies, and only young people can find the answers to the future! ”
In the "First Lesson of Science", Levitt gave 8 suggestions to the young people in the audience. It is worth mentioning that this is the second consecutive year that he has told young people at the T conference, "We must dare to make mistakes!" ”
1. The balance between study and life is very important. If you do not understand imbalances, you cannot carry out scientific exploration of sustainability.
2, have passion, do what you like, don't do what you think is important, don't blindly follow the footsteps of others.
3, believe in yourself, if you do not believe in yourself, no one will believe you.
4. Insist on originality, firmly believe that everyone is different.
5. Be prepared to make mistakes. Good scientists, 99% of the time are wrong, and if you never make mistakes, it means that what you are doing is too simple.
6. Explore things outside of your area of expertise.
7, go listen to music, watch movies, and be a dynamic "normal person".
8, to be a good person, to have good intentions.
Levitte's suggestion was echoed by Professor Raymond Stevens, winner of the 2019 International Science and Technology Cooperation Award of the People's Republic of China. He showed his classmates a photo of himself recently hiking in Yunnan with his colleagues, reminding young people to learn to balance work and life, and life may inspire you. "Like a student asking me before the opening how to balance the relationship between applied science and basic science, my answer is that both are important, both of which are important, both to devote themselves to basic disciplines and to learn to do experiments."
Dialogue: Sequestering 11 "Future Questions"
"Human society is facing huge global challenges, including climate change and the COVID-19 pandemic. This requires the vast majority of citizens to be able to make informed decisions based on insight and scientific thinking. Carl Wieman, winner of the 2001 Nobel Prize in Physics, used 29 strategies to tell young people how to "think like a scientist" through video link.
He used the Nobel Prize he had earned to set up an education fund. For the younger generation, he is full of expectations. "Science is not about solving textbook problems, it's about discovering what knowledge can change in what aspects of the real world."
Can we make a difference for the world? In the dialogue session, under the leadership of two young scientist mentors, Jiang Xuefeng, professor and doctoral supervisor of the School of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering of East China Normal University, and Jin Xianmin, professor of the Dean of Physics and Astronomy of Shanghai Jiao Tong University, the scientific teenagers showed their insights and thoughts on the unknown world with forward-looking questions.
The question is straightforward and vivid – "Why can a small change in chemical group cause disease?" "Just like if you change a word in a sentence, maybe the meaning of the whole sentence will change." "Does the fact that the brain is able to respond to electrical stimuli released from the outside world in part indicate that the brain is also in a state controlled by specific signals from the outside world?" "This is a very good question! In different ways, scientists try to communicate external information with the brain to treat diseases. But research in this area must be carefully promoted. ”
According to the organizing committee of the conference, this year's science T conference for the first time selected small scientists to participate in the conference through various forms such as line Shanghai selection and direct competition. With the support of the Shanghai Municipal Education Commission and the Shanghai Science and Technology Innovation Education Steering Committee, the Shanghai Center of the Top Science association co-sponsored the direct competition with the Shanghai Science and Technology Art Education Center and the Shanghai Youth Science Research Institute, and the China Association for Science and Technology selected some outstanding students of the Talent Program, and some top scientists also recommended small scientists, who jointly formed a group of small scientists participating in the Fourth WLF and Science T Conference. The summer line Shanghai selection adopts the method of recruiting young scientists to ask questions of top scientists. Surprisingly, in the two months, more than 6,000 school-age students from all over the country (including Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan) and overseas participated in the activities.
Can the time machine be created? What impact does traversing history have on reality? If human beings have origins, where is our destination? Is there a building material that can regulate the room temperature at will? Last night, 11 "unsolved puzzles" from small scientists were written into genetic codes and printed and sealed into a special container.
What is cherished together is the heart of love for science. "The atmosphere and environment here is a wonderful feeling." Zheng Zelei, a senior boy at Shanghai Gongjiang Middle School, has participated in the T Conference for the second consecutive year. He told reporters that he had learned clarinet since he was a child, but when the teacher asked him if he wanted to take the road of music, he always felt that something was missing, but when he began to carry out "a quantitative study on the relationship between clarinet sound quality pitch and whistle characteristics", he was full of enthusiasm. This made him understand that scientific research is true love. He said that attending the conference twice, hearing the stories of science giants face to face, and meeting a group of like-minded partners made him more determined in his choice.
Chief reporter Lu Zihua reporter Gao Yang