To: Lawrence Krauss From: Jeffrey Epstein Sent Tue 10/19/2010 2:51:44 AM Subject Re: st thomas yes „ they are all interesting , but the organization , allows for nothing great On Mon, Oct 18, 2010 at 9:27 PM, Lawrence Krauss ca , wrote: 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 fixing 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 modem quantum computing. Lawrence M. Krauss Foundation Professor Director, The ASU Origins Project Co-Director, Cosmology Initiative ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY School of Earth and Space Exploration P B x 871404 T m AZ 85287-1404 ttp: gauss. acu ty.asu.c u Exec. Asst (Jessica): Origins Asst (Cynthia) Sent from my iPad On Oct 18, 2010, at 6:18 PM, Jeffrey Epstein <[email protected]> wrote: frankly ,Im very disappointed„ I am never interested in good. , it has been poorly organized , planned and strategized, You are my fricnd. 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