Cover Explanation:
The cover art depicts a Helium atom which is the subject of improved ab initio calculations for He-He
interactions. These improvements have led to (1) the construction of a new interatomic potential phi07,
(2) recalculation of values for the second virial coefficient, the viscosity, and the thermal conductivity of 4He from
1 K to 10,000 K, and (3), the analysis of the uncertainties of the thermophysical properties that propagate from the
uncertainty of phi07 and from the Born-Oppenheimer approximation of the electron-nucleon quantum mechanical
system. See the paper by Hurly and Mehl in this issue (pages 75-94) for the complete details of these calculations.
Cover art by C.Carey.