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ONE BRATTLE SQUARE 6" FLOOR CAMBRIDGE MA 02138 PHONE FACSIMILE www.petfas.harvard.edu PROGRAM FOR EVOLUTIONARY DYNAMICS Harvard University 6 June. 2017 US DI-IS CIS Vermont Service Center 30 Houghton Street St. Albans, VT 05478 Re: Ms. 0-1 Visa Application Dear Sir or Madam: My name is Martin Nowak and I am a professor of Mathematics and of Biology at Harvard University, and the director of Harvard's Program for Evolutionary dynamics. "Evolutionary dynamics" is the study of the fundamental mathematical principles that guide evolution. The Program for Evolutionary Dynamics (PED) at Harvard University was established in 2003 and is dedicated to research and teaching. Our current research topics include: evolution of cooperation, cancer, viruses, evolutionary game/graph/set theory, prelife, protocells, eusociality, evolution of construction, population structure, evolution of language, experimental games, and evolutionary economics. Our ambitious goals include curing the world of cancer, infectious disease, selfishness, and inclusive fitness theory. First of all, I would like to take this opportunity to thank Enhanced Education Foundation for its generous and timely charitable contributions to the Program for Evolutionary Dynamics (PED). These contributions enabled me and those I work with at PED to further our research goals, which include curing the world of cancer and infectious diseases and expanding our research in fundamental questions of biology. For this, we cannot thank Ms. enough. She was the lead for Enhanced Education in raising funds for PED, and she is a fund-raising wizard. Ms. is also an organizational and public relations wizard. There are many event organizers and public relations professionals; what sets Ms. apart is her intelligence and her understanding of very abstract issues and science: A highly educated and intelligent person fluent in several languages, Ms. quickly understood the fundamentals of PED during her fundraising efforts. This is no small feat—what we work on is very complex, and oftentimes abstract science. However, Ms. quickly grasped the fundamentals of our work and its importance, and put her organizational and public relations skills to use, fostering and promoting our work. Our work is multidisciplinary—all basic sciences, mathematics, linguistics, sociology, engineering, medicine and everything in between is involved. Because she understood what we were doing, and because she gained the respect of many leading scientists and institutions of the United States through her work with Enhanced Education, Ms. worked hard to establish a bridge between PED and our neighbor MIT. EFTA00309262 Through her assistance, coordination, and organization, we brought in Joi Ito, the Director of the MIT Media Labs and a board member of Sony Corporation, The New York Times Company, the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation; Noam Chomsky, the legendary MIT linguistics professor described as "the father of modern linguistics", and a major figure in analytic philosophy and one of the founders of the field of cognitive science; Danny Hillis, the American inventor, engineer, mathematician, entrepreneur, and author, who co-founded Thinking Machines Corporation, a company that developed the Connection Machine, a parallel supercomputer designed by Hillis at MIT; and Seth Lloyd, principal investigator at the MIT Research Laboratory of Electronics, and the director of MIT's Center for Extreme Quantum Information Theory, to our dialogue at the PED. Ms. was the lead, and a true force of nature, in organizing and setting up meetings, and fostering these relationships. I am sincerely looking forward to our continued work with Ms. and Enhanced Education. I am also aware that Ms. is now focusing on the Education Advance Foundation, dedicated to promoting and fostering STEM education in the United States and assisting disadvantaged students interested in STEM fields with standardized test preparation. Promoting and increasing STEM education in the US is a crucial mission and an urgent necessity. Therefore, I am looking forward to Ms. work with Education Advance. Knowing her capabilities and extraordinary skills, I believe she will continue contributing to the US education and academia. Yours sincerely, Martin A. Nowak Professor of Mathematics and of Biology Harvard University EFTA00309263