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From: Jeffrey Epstein <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, May 12, 2009 8:36 PM To: Barnaby Marsh Subject: Re: 16th ,,,would be perfect. On Tue, May 12,=2009 at 4:27 PM, Barnaby Marsh < » wrote: There is lots to discuss regarding oth=r work, interesting people, etc...how about spending an afternoon together, t=e 15th or 16th of June? Does either of these dates work=for you? About Martin, these are the details: h=s rent and the associated overhead that Harvard takes is about $400k per year= or $2m over 5 years (this is absolute minimum to keep him there and operating)= his additional amounts for scholarship/scholars outside of the Templeton gr=nt is about twice that amount; his current running budget is $1.2M per year (o= $6M over 5 years). When we made the $11M grant, we though that this would s=ale up and expand his exceptional center and work, so if we could somehow raise=$6M to add our $11M to that would be ideal. That is what I think we should aim =or. Also, just FYI, I'm going to be asking Templeton to approve an additional 52M. supplement for broad philosophical/applied questions after year 2 of the project, so this will further amplify the importance of Martin's work, which can not be understated- he is a genius. From: Jeffrey =pstein Imailto:[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> I Sent: Tuesday, May 12, 2009 =2:47 PM To: Barnaby Marsh Subject: Re: =/P> how much is actually needed and on what time shedule? also , i look forward to your trip On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 10:52 AM, Barnaby Marsh < >> > wrote:</=pan> EFTA_R1_01663915 EFTA02524641 A visit to WPB in a few weeks (2n= week in June) would work nicely. I've been working with Martin and Harvard. They are not doing much at all. I'm going to put $6M of our grant in an external philanthropic vehicle (either a DAF or simply an external account; with wil= save the project $600k in overhead) and put about $5M through Harvard, but nonetheless his center needs to be viable. As before, we can pick up the co=ts of administration but he needs a real solution for the rent, which we can't fund because of charter restrictions. If we can't do that he has to close PED. There is no other option. Perhaps we could get togethe= some co-funders that could cover the rent part. I'm going to try Richard Watson of Cleveland gave Harvard $2M a few years back (and who is interested in game theory), a=d a few others that I know. Would you be in a position to make any additional contributions at all? Does anyone come to mind who Martin might approach (a=d who we might talk to first?). I want to make this work! Ideas welcome... —B. From: Jeffrey =pstein (mailto:[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> ] Sent: Thursday, May 07, 2009=6:41 PM To: Barnaby Marsh Subject: Re:</=> come spend some time in florida On Thu, May 7, 2009 at 6:13 PM, Barnaby Marsh < >> > wrote:<=p> Dear Jeff: I finally heard from Chuck Harper, who=is visiting anthropological sites in South Africa at the moment and has been a little hard to reach. Regarding Eastern Europe, not too much luck- these are the names I got, and I don't know any of them, so probably not too useful: Enn Kasak, Associate professor of philosophy of science, PhD, Tallinn University, Estonia <mailto ->] * loana-Carmen Popescu, Ph. D. Or anic Chemist Center "Constantin Nenitescu" from Romanian Academy, Bucharest, Romania <mailto > 2 EFTA_R1_01663916 EFTA02524642 • Dr. lulian Rusu [email protected] < > J Professor at Technical University Iasi, Faculty of Industrial Chemistr= • Stefan Trausan-Matu, Professor, "Politehnica" University of Bucharest, Computer Science Department, Bucharest, Romania; and Principal researcher, Romanian Aca=emy Research Institute for Artificial Intelligence, Bucharest, Romania I <mailto > =AO http://www.racai.rortrausanj Chuck suggested Tegmark at MIT, and I think that we might be able to do something=related to a new grants competition programs that look at creativity, innovation, a=d efficiency in the context of biological membranes, but the question is who =re the people? By the way I had a quick follow-up chat with Krauss in Arizona- what he is doing i= important, and I have encouraged him to think about long-term directions/strategies (bigge= than simply raising the endowment and convening famous people, which is onl= a start). I'll reconnect with him soon. Barnaby 3 EFTA_R1_01663917 EFTA02524643