From: Jeffrey Epstein <jeevacation®gmail.com>
To: Lawrence Krauss
Subject: Re: talk
Date: Thu, 09 Sep 2010 05:07:00 +0000
please send the list. Are you awake?
On Wed, Sep 8, 2010 at 9:18 PM, Lawrence Krauss < > wrote:
you keep forgetting to phone back... I would really like to address both your concerns about my own efforts,
and also the nature of the meeting, the latter of which I want to discuss here. We are constrained by the fact
that (a) invitations have already gone out to a pretty distinguished group of scientists, and some others, and (b)
we have already billed this as an 'external advisory meeting, and we are constrained by that. They expect this
to be an advisory meeting for Origins... If we somehow cancel this, after the invitations have been made, we
lose credibility with all of these people and damage the program tremendously. Within the context of what you
and I have discussed I would certainly like to use this to explore interesting scientific ideas, and to set the stage
for really interesting meetings.. namely to explore areas where small workshops can make a difference.. to use
the scientific expertise of this group to assess which questions may be most fruitful for exploration, and which
ones might benefit from different approaches.. all these things are of interest to you too I think.. but this is
slightly different than having those meetings as themselves, which we will want to do.. So, I want to bring
together this group and ask the question, how can we have the greatest impact on moving knowledge in your
disciplines forward in interesting areas of science.. which questions should we focus on and why, and how.. It
will involve concrete science, not fringe stuff or 'science policy' that is why I broke down the agenda I sent you
into several key areas which seem fascinating, and in which we can actually do something.. We will need to
devote one hour at the end to suggestions from the group on where we can go for money for Origins, and how,
but that is not unreasonable I think.
Thoughts?
LMK
Lawrence M. Krauss
Foundation Professor
Director, The ASU Origins Project
Co-Director, Cosmology Initiative
Assoc. Dir, Beyond Center
ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY
College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
School of Earth and Space Exploration
PO Box 871404 Tempe AZ 85287-1404
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