From: "Christakis, Nicholas" To: Jeffrey Epstein <jeevacation®gmail.com> Subject: Re: meeting again Date: Sun, 08 Sep 2013 18:33:30 +0000 good. your schedule is surely busier than mine, but here are some days i could make it to NYC after september 21 (depending on timing): september 24, 25 october 14, 16, 18, 22 best, n On Sep 8, 2013, at 2:22 PM 9/8/13, Jeffrey Epstein [email protected]> wrote: no back until the 21 , but lets definitely schedule after On Sun, Sep 8, 2013 at 2:21 PM, Christakis, Nicholas wrote: dear Jeff thanks for the kind words. i enjoyed meeting you; i had not known you were connected to john brockman, but i should have guessed! as luck would have it, i am slated to be in NYC this coming thursday for a dinner and could meet before that, any time between 2 and 5, if that happened to work for you. otherwise, i could surely come back again within the coming weeks. my lab has a number of foci at present: 1) the evolutionary biology and genetics of social networks and social interaction; 2) the experimental exploration, using online tools, of network structure and function in humans (how does network structure affect phenomena like cooperation, innovation, health, etc.); and 3) randomized controlled trials in the developing world of network 'targeting algorithms' aimed at enhancing spillover effects, so as to facilitate population-level behavior change by identifying and targeting influential people. let me share three papers with you (one unpublished) that flesh out some of our work (specifically [1] and [2] above): http://humannaturelab.net/wp-content/themes/human-nature-lab/media/pdf/publications/articles/127.pdf hup://humannaturelab.net/wp-contentithemes/human-nature-labinnedia/pdf/publicationstarticles/126.pdf http://anciv.org/abs/1308.5257 best, nicholas EFTA00970018