From: Lawrence Krauss 5 To: Jeffrey Epstein <[email protected]> Subject: Fwd: advisory board meeting-pre agenda Date: Tue, 26 Oct 2010 16:48:42 +0000 here is another response.. before I communicate to the others, I wanted to establish whether this is happening.. At this point, if you really want to cancel the meeting I will absorb the embarrassment and come up with something to tell people.. please let me know asap though, as this week I was hoping to put together a more detailed agenda. LMK Begin forwarded message: From: "Erwin, Doug" Date: October 26, 201. A.1 To: Lawrence Krauss <I Subject: RE: advisory board meeting-pre agenda Hi Lawrence Forgot that I hadn't responded - I think I will talk about "What drives the origins and growth of Biodiversity?" this may intersect with the talks by Ariel, and possibly by Neil. See you soon Doug From: Lawrence Krauss [I Sent: Wednesday, October 06, 2010 1:09 AM To: Wendy Freedman; ather, John C. (GSFC-6600); Richard Dawkins; Neil Shubin; Erwin, Doug; Sander Van Der euw;Craig enter; Ariel Anbar Cc: Penelope Moon; Lawrence Krauss Subject: advisory board meeting-pre agenda As the advisory board meeting will occur in a little over a month in St. Thomas I wanted to touch base with all of you and give you a brief outline of what we are hoping for, and also to provide each of you with a short homework assignment. The meeting will be more of a discussion of ideas than a review of progress and making plans (although there will be a bit of that). I would like to ask each of you to prepare a 30 min-ish (can be shorter or longer) presentation on one key question you have been thinking about, or working on, in your respective areas of research, each of which reflects an important area for consideration in our origins program. We will use these mini-lectures as a chance to launch discussions of areas on which we should focus. If you could frame your talk around a question (preferably with an origins t