Asa COLLEGE Of LIBERAL ARTS &SCIENCES ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY www.origins.asu. edu February 19, 2010 Jeffrey Epstein Florida Science Foundation Ste 1404, 250 South Australian Avenue West Palm Beach, FL 33401-5016 Dear Jeffrey: Lawrence M. Krauss Director, ASU Origins Project Foundation Professor School of Earth and Space Exploration and Physics Department Co-Director, Cosmology Initiative and Beyond Center Thanks very much for your important input into our Origins of Human Uniqueness conference, and for your conversations with me and Martin Nowak about the possibility of applying techniques from physics, notably minimization and action integrals to calculations in evolutionary dynamics. As you know, issues of the origin and evolution of life are central to the goals of the Origins Project at ASU, which aims to explore questions ranging from the origin of the universe, to the origins of consciousness and culture. As a part of this we are organizing several workshops in which we are bringing in the most active and brightest researchers from a wide variety of areas to explore forefront questions in science. We feel your participation in these workshops is vital to their success. I am writing with two specific requests. First we would very much like you to serve on our Origins External Scientific Advisory Board. As you can see from the names listed on following page, the board currently contains 5 Nobel Laureates, The President of the Royal Society, as well as several important science entrepreneurs. The list has been carefully chosen to provide the necessary expertise to help guide us as we build our program, and we feel you could play an essential role. Second, we feel your physical presence at the Institute here will assist us tremendously as we build our programs. Over the next year we will be running an Origins of Life program, including a workshop exploring current ideas regarding how inorganic chemistry became biochemistry, and how