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:

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• Enn Kasak, Associate professor of philosophy of science, PhD, Tallinn University, Estonia ennk©tlu.ee]
• loan-Carmen Popescu, Ph. D. Organic Chemistry Center "Constantin Nenitescu" from Romanian Academy, Bucharest, Romania IpoDescu loana carmen@yahoo.comj
• Dr. lulian Rusu [rusu iulian(Rhotmail.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

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how much is actually needed and on what time shedule? also , i look forward to your trip

On Tuc, May 12, 2009 at 10:52 AM, Barnaby Marsh wrote:

A visit to WPB in a few weeks (r week in June) would work nicely. I've been working with Martin and Harvard. They are not doing much at all. I'm going to put $6M of our grant in an external philanthropic vehicle (either a OAF or simply an external account; with will save the project $600k in overhead) and put about $5M through Harvard, but nonetheless his center needs to be viable. As before, we can pick up the costs of administration but he needs a real solution for the rent, which we can't fund because of charter restrictions. If we can't do that he has to close PED. There is no other option. Perhaps we could get together some co-funders that could cover the rent part. I'm going to try Richard Watson of Cleveland gave Harvard $2M a few years back (and who is interested in game theory), and a few others that I know. Would you be in a position to make any additional contributions at all? Does anyone come to mind who Martin might approach (and who we might talk to first?). I want to make this work! Ideas welcome... —B.