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To: Barnaby Marsh From: Jeffrey Epstein Sent: Thur 5/7/2009 10:40:35 PM Subject: Re: come spend some time in Florida On Thu, May 7, 2009 at 6:13 PM, Barnaby Marsh ‹ > wrote: Dear Jeff: I finally heard from Chuck Harper, who is visiting anthropological sites in South Africa at the moment and has been a little hard to reach. Regarding Eastern Europe, not too much luck- these are the names I got, and I don't know any of them, so probably not too useful: • Enn Kasak, Associate professor of philosophy of science, PhD, Tallinn University, Estonia • loan-Carmen Popescu, Ph. D. Organic Chemistry Center "Constantin Nenitescu" from Romanian Academy, Bucharest, Romania • Dr. lulian Rusu I I Professor at Technical University Iasi, Faculty of Industrial Chemistry • Stefan Trausan-Matu, Professor, "Politehnica" University of Bucharest, Computer Science Department, Bucharest, Romania; and Principal researcher Romanian Academy Research Institute for Artificial Intelligence, Bucharest, Romania http://www.racai.ro/--trausanj EFTA_R1_00203572 EFTA01828198 Chuck suggested Tegmark at MIT, and I think that we might be able to do something related to a new grants competition programs that look at creativity, innovation, and efficiency in the context of biological membranes, but the question is who arc the people? By the way I had a quick follow-up chat with Krauss in Arizona- what he is doing is important, and I have encouraged him to think about long-term directions/strategies (bigger than simply raising the endowment and convening famous people, which is only a start). I'll reconnect with him soon. Bamaby EFTA_R1_00203573 EFTA01828199