Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2007 14:27:22 +0200 (CEST)
From: Georges Audi <audi@csnsm.in2p3.fr>
To: Recipients of AMDC bulletin: ;
Subject: AMDC - News from the Atomic Mass Data Center

    AME-FUTURE        by  Georges Audi

    The original plan was to release the next Ame+Nubase
    evaluations in December 2008.
    Since December 2003, discussions and meetings were held
    to prepare the future of the evaluation program.
    Unfortunately they did not lead to a serious project.
    No future could thus be established for these evaluations.

    After the untimely death of A.H. Wapstra, the Ame+Nubase
    evaluation relies on one person alone.  In the absence
    of any additional help, an evaluation of the same quality
    as the 2003 edition appears impossible.

    I am therefore sorry to announce that the publication of
    Ame2008 and Nubase2008 is cancelled.

    No other evaluation of masses is planned, since I have now
    moved to another domain of interest.
    More information at:
    http://amdc.in2p3.fr/bulletins/Ame-fut.txt


    AN INTERACTIVE WEB SITE FOR THE LIQUID DROP MODEL  by George Bertsch

    There is a new nuclear theory project in the USA, called
    "Building A Universal Nuclear Energy Density Functional"
    (UNEDF), that has one of its goals to develop better theory
    of the nuclear mass table. As part of its outreach effort,
    the UNEDF project has set up an interactive web site to make
    mass table fits using the liquid drop model and to test
    extensions of the model.

    It is hoped that it would be useful for nuclear physics
    courses and for the non-nuclear scientific community. The web
    site is accessed from the UNEDF home page:
    http://unedf.org/    --> Liquid Drop Model

    Your comments are invited by George Bertsch,
    the scientific director of UNEDF.
    His email address is bertsch@phys.washington.edu