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Freeman DysonEric KandelJudith KatzAndrian KreyeSarah KrausJeffrey EpsteinGmax MaxwellJean PigozziJ.E. SafraJean DoumanianDimitar SasselovFrank SchirrmacherDavid ShipleyLee SmolinRichard ThalerFrance LeClercKatie WeirNaomi WolfCzerny SteffiAdam BlyRobert Trivers

Here is the updated information on the dinner next Wednesday night ...

Time: 7pm

Date: Wednesday, February 16th

Restaurant: LE CIRQUE - Private Dining Room

One Beacon Court

151 E 58th Street (Lex & 3rd)

New York, NY 10022

http://www.lecirque.com
Map: http://bit.ly/fsFNHn

Guests: See below

rsvp: By Friday, February 11th, please

Best regards,

JB
Mobile

GUESTS

Freeman Dyson
Physicist, Institute of Advanced Studies; Author, "The Scientist as =ebel"
http://www.edge.org/3rd_culture/bios/dyson.html

Elaine Pagels

Harrington Spear Paine Professor of Religion, Princeton University; -uthor, "The Gnostic Gospels" http://www.edge.org/3rd_culture/bios/pagels.html

Daniel Kahneman

Eugene Higgins Professor of Psychology, Princeton University; Recipient =002 Nobel Prize in Ecomomics http://www.edge.org/3rd_culture/bios/kahneman.html

& Anne Treisman

James S. McDonnell Distinguished University Professor of Psychology at rinceton University; recipient of the 2009 University of Louisville =rawemeyer Award http://www.edge.org/3rd_culture/bios/treisman.html

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Eric Kandel

University Professor at Columbia University in the Department of =iochemistry and Molecular Biophysics; Recipient 2000 Nobel Prize in =edicine http://www.edge.org/3rd_culture/bios/kandel.html

Judith Katz

Theatre Producer; Author "The Business of Show Business"
http://www.edge.org/3rd_culture/bios/katz.htm

Andrian Kreye
Feuilleton Editor, Sueddeutsche Zeitung
http://www.edge.org/3rd_culture/bios/kreye.html

Sarah Kraus
Mezzo Soprano
http://sarahkraus.com/

Jeffrey Epstein
money manager and science philanthropist http://www.edge.org/3rd_culture/bios/epstein.html

Ghislaine Maxwell

Investor

Jean Pigozzi (* tentative)
Investor, Art Collector, Ecological researcher =ttp://www.vanityfair.com/business/features/2010/12/jean-pigozzi-
201012?cu=rentPage=all

Moses Pendleton & Cynthia Quinn
Directors, Momix Dance Company
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moses_Pendleton
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MOMIX

Jacqui Safra

Swiss Investor, Chairman, Encyclopædia Britannica; Owner, Spring =ountain Vineyards http://www.edge.org/3rd_culture/bios/safra.htm

& Jean Doumanian

Former producer, Saturday Night Live; Broadway & Movie Producer =Deconstructing Harry, Celebrity, Sweet & Lowdown) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Doumanian

Dimitar Sasselov
Professor of Astronomy, Harvard University; Director, Harvard Origins of =ife Initiative
http://www.edge.org/3rd_culture/bios/sasselov.html

• Frank Schirrmacher (• tentative)
Co-Publisher & Feuilleton Editor, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung
http://www.edge.org/3rd_culture/bios/schirrmacher.html

David Shipley

Bloomberg News; former Deputy Editorial Page Editor, OpEd Page Editor, =ew York Times; Co-Author, "Send" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Shipley

Lee Smolin

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Physicist, Perimeter Institute; Author "The Trouble with Physics"
http://www.edge.org/3rd_culture/bios/smolin.htm

Richard Thaler
Father of Behavioral Economics, U. Chicago; Co-Author, "Nudge"
http://www.edge.org/3rd_culture/bios/thaler.html
& France LeClerq
Marketing and Behavioral Science Consultant http://www.edge.org/3rd_culture/bios/leclerc.html

Katie Weir
Dancer, Ben Munisteri Dance Company
http://bit.ly/g5EZDR

Naomi Wolf Author, Feminist, Poilitical Consultant; Author, "The Beauty Myth", =The End of America" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naomi_Wolf

Steffy Czerny

Co-founder of the DLD Conference at Hubert Burda Media; Managing =irector, DLD Media & DLD Ventures =ttp://www.dld-conference.com/speakers/digital-business/steffi-czerny_aid=41.html

Adam Bly
Founder & Driector, Seed Media Group
http://www.edge.org/3rd_culture/bios/brockman.html
& Ayah Bdeir
Lebanese engineer and interactive artist; Creative Commons Fellow http://ayahbdeir.com/

Robert Trivers

Evolutionary Biologist, Professor of Antrhopology, Rutgers; Recipient, =007 Crafoord Prize in Biosciences http://www.edge.org/3rd_culture/bios/trivers.htm

John Markoff

Technology Correspondent, The New York Times
=ttp://topics.nytimes.com/topics/reference/timestopics/people/m/john_marko=f/index.html

John Brockman
http://www.edge.org/3rd_culture/bios/brockman.html

Katinka Matson
http://www.katinkamatson.com/

Max Brockman
http://www.edge.org/3rd_culture/bios/brockmanm.html

Jennie Ripps
http://bit.ly/h1Kv2b

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Jason Calacanis/Jade Li Calacanis
Nicholas Carr
Jerry Coyne
Richard Dawkins/Lala Ward
Daniel C. Dennett/Sue Dennett
George Dyson
Massimo Gaggi
Murray Gell-Mann
Harry Gittes
Brian Greene/Tracy Day
Alan Guth
Salar Kamangar
Kevin Kelly
Andre Linde
Seth Lloyd
Marvin Minsky/Gloria Rudisch
Nathan Myhrvold
Jack Nicholson
Martin Nowak
Svante Paabo
Lori Park
Sean Parker
V.S Ramachandran
Clay Shirky
Charles Simonyi
Neil Shubin
Angie Thieriot/Richard Thieriot
J. Craig Venter/Heather Kowalski
Anton Zeilinger

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