To: Jeffrey Epstein[jeevacation@gmail.com]
From: Barnaby Marsh
Sent: Thur 5/7/2009 10:13:31 PM
Subject: RE:

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 ennk@tlu.ee]
• Ioana-Carmen Popescu, Ph. D. Organic Chemistry Center "Constantin Nenitescu" from Romanian Academy, Bucharest, Romania [popescu_ioana_carmen@yahoo.com]
• Dr. Iulian Rusu [rusu_iulian@hotmail.com] 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 [trausan@cs.pub.ro http://www.racai.ro/~trausan]

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.

Barnaby