Re: st thomas

frankly ,Im very disappointed„ I am never interested in good. , it has been poorly organized , planned and strategized, You are my friend. that s more important, but this has really not been a very encouraging experience.. I tried to help .. Once it became about the institution , and not about ideas.. the level of interest plummeted„ and justifiabliy so.

ok.. I think things are finalized.. couldn't get dimopoulos.. the meeting will be good, but not great.. learned a lesson.. need to arrange it at least 6 mos in advance to get the people we want... this is a VERY good group, don't misunderstand me, but it could have been better..

LMK

yes „ they are all interesting , but the organization , allows for nothing great

Im very happy that you have nancy. , I know its been a rough ride.

I don't think you are being entirely fair there Jeffrey. I wanted to be honest with you which is why I wrote the note about my perceptions. The big mistake was £icing the date before we confirmed with people. Everyone on our original list was interested in attending...they had committed in fact to trending in principle. The date turned out to suck for a bu inch of them, and even those people tried to change their plans but couldn't. We should have sent a matrix of dates out, like we do for internal meetings, and confirmed availability first. That was a huge mistake, and I take blame. I wanted to get the meeting in this year, and that narrowed things considerably.

The list of people coming is still stellar though..but not out of this galaxy as I had hoped. freedman, matrher, and Guth will be fantastic on early universe and cosmology, and shubin, Erwin, van der leeuw and anbar will be great on early animal and human evolution. And Charlie bennett basically created modern quantum computing.

we'll see.. I still have time to fiddle.. but thanks for the honesty and support.. feeling less stressed now.. had a hellish 2 weeks of travel I survived, and 3 days of meetings here, including some stuff in cleveland.. working hard now, then off to disneyworld tomorrow for 5 days of rest and play with Nancy and her daughter.

Galleys for Feynman book just arrived, and it is good.

you are a good friend. I appreciate it more than you may know.