Program overview
SUNDAY MORNING, 29 APRIL 2001
Session H1. GGR: Issues in Gravitational Radiation.
Sunday morning, 10:45, Grand Ballroom North/Central, Renaissance Hotel$
10:45 H1.001
Gravitational Radiation Instabilities in Rotating Neutron Stars- Lee Lindblom (Theoretical Astrophysics, Caltech)
11:21 H1.002
Computing the Complete Gravitational Wavetrain from Relativistic Binary Inspiral- Stuart L. Shapiro (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
11:57 H1.003
Gravitational Radiation and Equations of Motion: Post-Newtonian Methods- Clifford M. Will (Washington University, St. Louis)
12:33 H1.004
Gravitational radiation reaction in strong fields- Eric Poisson (University of Guelph)
13:09 H1.005
Separating Gravitational-Wave Signals from Detector Noise- Patrick Brady (University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee)
Session H2. FPS: Forum on Physics & Society Prize Session.
Sunday morning, 10:45, Grand Ballroom South, Renaissance Hotel
10:45 H2.001
The Patriot Experience in the Gulf War -- Implications for Today- George Lewis (Security Studies Program, Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
11:21 H2.002
The North Korean Missile Program- David Wright (Union of Concerned Scientists amp; MIT Security Studies Program)
11:57 H2.003
What Would an Adequate NMD Test Program Look Like?- Lisbeth Gronlund (Union of Concerned Scientists amp; MIT Security Studies Program)
12:33 H2.004
A look at life from both sides: Newtonian and Darwinian perspectives on global change- John Harte (University of California, Berkeley)
Session H3. DPF/DPB: Next Generation Accelerators and Colliders.
Sunday morning, 10:45, Renaissance East, Renaissance Hotel$
10:45 H3.001
Snowmass 2001: Objectives and Plans- Chris Quigg (Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory)
11:21 H3.002
Large Hadron Collider Status- Lyndon R. Evans (CERN)
11:57 H3.003
Progress with the Next Linear Collider- Tor Raubenheimer (Stanford Linear Accelerator Center)
12:33 H3.004
Overview of the Neutrino Factory- Jonathan Wurtele (Department of Physics, UC Berkeley and Center for Beam Physics, LBNL)
13:09 H3.005
Very Large Hadron Collider- Peter Limon (Fermilab)
Session H4. DAP/DNP: The Origin of the Elements.
Sunday morning, 10:45, Renaissance West A, Renaissance Hotel$
10:45 H4.001
New Paradigms for Nucleosynthesis in the Early Universe and the First Generations of Stars- Grant Mathews (Center for Astrophysics, University of Notre Dame)
11:21 H4.002
Stellar Evolution and Nucleosynthesis- Alexander Heger (Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics, University of California, Santa Cruz, CA 95064)
11:57 H4.003
Radioactivity Gamma-Rays from Galactic Nucleosynthesis Sites- Roland Diehl (ax Planck Insrtitut für extraterrestrische Physik, Garching, Germany)
12:33 H4.004
Chemical Evolution of Galaxies and the Universe- Dieter Hartmann (Department of Physics and Astronomy, Clemson University, Clemson SC 29634)
13:09 H4.005
First Cosmic Microwave Background Anisotropy Results from DASI- J. E. Carlstrom (University of Chicago)
Session H5. CSWP/COM: Increasing the Numbers of Under- represented Groups in Science.
Sunday morning, 10:45, Renaissance West B, Renaissance Hotel$
10:45 H5.001
Women's Participation in Physics Internationally: the IUPAP Working Group on Women- Judy Franz (American Physical Society)
11:21 H5.002
The CAWMSET Report: A Framework for Change- Kimberly S. Budil (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory)
11:57 H5.003
Do Women and Minorities Learn Physics Differently?- Apriel Hodari (House of Representatives)
12:33 H5.004
Real Answers in the Recruitment of Minorities in Physics- Pamela L. Luca (Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory)
Session H6. FHP/DAMOP: 100 Years at NBS-NIST.
Sunday morning, 10:45, Auditorium, Renaissance Hotel$
10:45 H6.001
H. N. Russell and Atomic Spectra- David DeVorkin (Smithsonian Institution)
11:21 H6.002
Political Controversy and Scientific Integrity NBS-NIST- Lewis M. Branscomb (Prof. emeritus, Public Policy and Corporate Management John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University 79 JFK Street, Cambridge MA 02138)
11:57 H6.003
A Century of Fundamental Constants Work at NBS-NIST- Edwin Williams (National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD)
12:33 H6.004
The Scientific Legacy of Ugo Fano- Mitio Inokuti (Physics Division, Argonne National Laboratory)
13:09 H6.005
The story of Bose-Einstein condensation- Eric Cornell (JILA)
Session H7. DNP: Mini-Symposium: Early Results from RHIC-Probing Matter at Extreme Density.
Sunday morning, 10:45, Room Congressional A, 40026
10:45 H7.001
Toward a Theoretical Understanding of High-energy Heavy-ion Collisions- Xin-Nian Wang (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)
11:21 H7.002
Rapidity and centrality dependence of charged particle production in \sqrts=130AGeV Au+Au collisons.- Jens Jorgen Gaardhoje (Niels Bohr Institute), BRAHMS Collaboration
11:57 H7.003
First Results from the PHENIX Experiment at RHIC- Marzia Rosati (Iowa State University), PHENIX Collaboration
12:33 H7.004
Recent results from the Phobos experiment at RHIC- Steven Manly (University of Rochester), Phobos Collaboration
13:09 H7.005
Round 1 at RHIC: Hadron distributions from Au+Au Collisions at 130 GeV- Peter Jacobs (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory), STAR Collaboration
Session H8. DNP: Mini-Symposium: Nuclear Medium Effects in Helium.
Sunday morning, 10:45, Room Congressional B, Renaissance Hotel$
10:45 H8.001
Extraction of Neutron Information with a Polarized ^3He- Walter Gloeckle (Ruhr Universitaet Bochum, Institut fuer theoretische Physik II, 44780 Bochum, Germany)
11:21 H8.002
Extraction of the neutron spin structure functions and the Evaluation of the extended GDH sum rule Using polarized ^3He data- Nilanga Liyanage (Jefferson Lab), Jefferson Lab E94010 Collaboration
11:33 H8.003
Measurement of the electric neutron form factor G_en in the reaction ^3\vecHe(\vece,e'n) at momentum transfer Q^2 = 0.67(GeV/c)^2- J. Bermuth, A1 at MAMI Collaboration
11:45 H8.004
Polarization transfer in the ^4He(\vec e,e'\vec p)^3H reaction- Steffen Strauch (Rutgers University), MAMI A1 Collaboration, TJNAF E93-049 Collaboration
11:57 H8.005
Precise Measurement of the Neutron Magnetic Form Factor using Quasi-elastic ^3\vecHe(\vece, e').- Dipangkar Dutta (MIT), JLab E95001 Collaboration
12:09 H8.006
How to extract neutron structure information from He-3- Wally Melnitchouk (Jefferson Lab/Adelaide)
Session H9. SPS: Society of Physics Students.
Sunday morning, 10:45, Room 2, Renaissance Hotel
10:45 H9.001
A GEANT Simulation of a Photon Polarimeter- Travis M. Garrett, D.J. Tedesch, N. Baltzell (University of South Carolina), B. Wojtsekhowski (Thomas Jefferson National Laboratory), B. Vlahovic (North Carolina Central University), M. Khandakar (Norfolk State University and Jlab), G. Feldman, G.V. O'Reilly (The George Washington University), F. Klein (Florida International University and JLab)
10:57 H9.002
Ionically self-assembled monolayers (ISAMs)- John Janik (Virginia Tech.)
11:09 H9.003
XAFS Measurements on Hydroxy- and Fluoro-apatite- K. A. Macaluso, A.E. Tabor-Morris (Georgian Court College)
11:21 H9.004
Convergence Points in a Balloon-type Universe- F. H. DeFreitas, A. E. Tabor-Morris (Georgian Court College)
11:33 H9.005
The General Collective Model and its Application to Even-Even Tellurium Nuclei.- J.A. Tanyi, T.H. Churchill, K.A. Crandell, J.R. Vanhoy (US Naval Academy), M.C. Burns, P.A. Roddy, S.F. Hicks (Univ Dallas), Z. Ammar, T.B. Brown, M Merrick, N. Warr, S.W. Yates (Univ of Kentucky)
11:45 H9.006
Monte Carlo Modeling of JLab Spectrometers- Melissa Boswell (Randolph-Macon Woman's College and Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility)
11:57 H9.007
Adsorption Isotherm of Nitrogen on a Nuclepore Surface at 77 K- Stephanie Sydorko (Randolph-Macon Woman's College)
12:09 H9.008
The Effect of High Concentration Guanidinium Azo-Tetrazolate on Thrust and Specific Impulse of a Hybrid Rocket- Dagim Tilahun, A. Wright, P. Foley, M. Reason (Hendrix College)
12:21 H9.009
The Role of Copper Impurity in the Photo-Stimulated Luminescence from KBr Single Crystals X-irradiated at 77 K- Cody Hopkins, Pradip Bandyopadhyay (Hendrix College)
12:33 H9.010
LiF:Mg,Cu,P Radiation Dosimeter: A Study of Luminescence & Sensitivity- Kyland Holmes, Pradip Bandyopadhyay (Hendrix College)
Session H10. DPF: Searches for New Particles II.
Sunday morning, 10:45, Room 3, Renaissance Hotel$
10:45 H10.001
Search for Gluino Pairs with the Signature of Two Like-Sign Top Quarks- Chadd Smith (Johns Hopkins University), CDF Collaboration
10:57 H10.002
Search for Supersymmetry signal of Minimal Supergravity model at D0- John Zhou (D0 Collaboration)
11:09 H10.003
Search for New Physics in Events with a Photon and Missing E_t- Peter Onyisi (University of Chicago), CDF Collaboration
11:21 H10.004
Search for New Physics with ATLAS (non Higgs)- Rachid Mazini (University of Montreal), ATLAS Collaboration
11:33 H10.005
Higgs Searches in Run II at the Tevatron with the CDF Detector- Antoni Munar (INFN Sezione di Pisa), CDF Collaboration
11:45 H10.006
Search for excited leptons at LEP- Brigitte Vachon (University of Victoria), OPAL Collaboration
11:57 H10.007
Combined CDF Run I Limits on Higgs Production in Association with a Vector Boson- Chris Hill (University of California at Davis), CDF Collaboration
12:09 H10.008
Search for Supersymmetric Particles through R-parity violation at D0- Abdelouahab Abdesselam (D0 Collaboration)
12:21 H10.009
Search for Large Extra Spacetime Dimensions via the Drell-Yan and Diphoton Processes at CDF Run I- John Carlson (University of Michigan), CDF Collaboration
12:33 H10.010
Search for large extra dimensions in the jets + missing energy channel- Hai Zheng (D0 Collaboration)
12:45 H10.011
Search for the Supersymmetric Partner of the Top Quark at CDF- Arnold Pompos (Purdue University), CDF Collaboration
12:57 H10.012
Search for Second Neutral Pion- W. A. Perkins (Perkins Advanced Computer Systems)
Session H11. DPF: D and B Decays: Time Dependence.
Sunday morning, 10:45, Room 4, Renaissance Hotel$
10:45 H11.001
A Measurement of the Charged and Neutral B Meson Lifetimes Using Semileptonic Decays- Chih-Hsiang Cheng (Stanford University), BABAR Collaboration
10:57 H11.002
A Measurement of the Charged and Neutral B Meson Lifetimes in BABAR- Jan Stark (LPNHE, Paris 6 et 7), BABAR Collaboration
11:09 H11.003
A Measurement of the B^0\kern 0.18emøverline\kern -0.18em B^0 Oscillation Frequency and Determination of Flavor-Tagging Efficiency Using Fully Reconstructed Hadronic Decays- Benjamin Brau (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), BABAR Collaboration
11:21 H11.004
A Measurement of the B^0\kern 0.18emøverline\kern -0.18em B^0 Oscillation Frequency and Determination of Flavor-Tagging Efficiency Using Semileptonic Decays- Chris LeClerc (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory), BABAR Collaboration
11:33 H11.005
A Measurement of the Time Dependence of B_d^0 - øverlineB_d^0 Mixing Using Kaon Tagging- Jodi Wittlin (University of Massachusetts, Amherst), The SLD Collaboration
11:45 H11.006
B-\barB Mixing in Semileptonic Decay Modes- Yangheng Zheng (University of Hawaii), Belle Collaboration
11:57 H11.007
Bs Mixing at SLD- Stephane Willocq (University of Massachusetts), SLD Collaboration
12:09 H11.008
Time-Dependent Analysis of B^0 \to J\mskip -3mu/\mskip -2mu\psi\mskip 2mu K^0_\scriptscriptstyle L in BABAR- David Lange (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory), BABAR Collaboration
12:21 H11.009
Time-Dependent Analysis of B^0 Decays into a Charmonium State and a K^0_\scriptscriptstyle S- Shahram Rahatlou (University of California, San Diego), BABAR Collaboration
12:33 H11.010
Search for D^0-øverlineD^0 mixing with semileptonic decays- Chris Sedlack (University of Illinois), CLEO Collaboration
12:45 H11.011
Mixing and DCSD in D^0 \to K^+\pi^-\pi^+\pi^-- Michael Marsh (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign), CLEO Collaboration
12:57 H11.012
Measurements of the B_d-\barB_d mixing frequency using semileptonic decays, hadronic decays and dilepton events- Yangheng Zheng (University of Hawaii), Belle Collaborations
13:09 H11.013
B-\barB Mixing with hadronic decays and prospects for the determination of gamma- Yangheng Zheng (University of Hawaii), Belle Collaboration
Session H12. DNP: Weak Interactions and Cold Neutrons.
Sunday morning, 10:45, Room 5, Renaissance Hotel$
10:45 H12.001
Fundamental Symmetries and Magnetically Trapped 82Rb- A. Hime, S.G. Crane, M. Di Rossa, A. Hamer, J.J. Kitten, D.J. Vieira, X. Zhao (Los Alamos National Laboratory)
10:57 H12.002
E761, a Second Generation 221 MeV pp Parity Violation Experiment at TRIUMF- W.D. Ramsay, J. Birchall, D.A. Horning, L. Lee, S.A. Page, A.A. Rauf, G. Rutledge, W.T.H van Oers (University of Manitoba), P.W. Green, G. Roy (University of Alberta), A.A. Hamian (University of Washington), C.A. Davis, C.D.P. Levy (TRIUMF), N.A. Titov, A.N. Zelenski (INR Moscow), J.D. Bowman, R.E. Mischke (Los Alamos National Laboratory), N.T. Okumusoglu (Karadeniz Technical University, Turkey)
11:09 H12.003
Capture rate and neutron helicity asymmetry for ordinary muon capture on hydrogen- Shung-ichi Ando, Fred Myhrer, Kuniharu Kubodera (Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC 29208)
11:21 H12.004
Neutron polarizers based on spin-exchange optical pumping of 3He at low pressures- D. R. Rich, T. R. Gentile, T. B. Smith, A. K. Thompson (NIST), G. L. Jones (Hamilton College), T. G. Walker, B. Chann (University of Wisconsin)
11:33 H12.005
A Precision Measurement of the n-D Coherent Scattering Length- K. Schoen (University of Missouri-Columbia), T. Black (University of North Carolina-Wilmington), W.M. Snow (University of Indiana), P. Huffman, M. Arif (NIST), H. Kaiser (University of Missouri-Columbia), D. Jacobson (NIST), S. Werner (NIST, University of Missouri-Columbia)
11:45 H12.006
An experiment to measure A_\gamma in \vecn+p\rightarrow d+\gamma at LANSCE- W. Scott Wilburn (Los Alamos National Laboratory), npdgamma Collaboration
11:57 H12.007
Measurement of the Pulsed Cold Neutron Flux at LANSCE- Gregory Mitchell (Los Alamos National Laboratory), NPDGamma Collaboration
12:09 H12.008
A Novel RF Neutron Spin Rotator for the NPDGamma Experiment at LANSCE- Todd Smith (NIST), NPDGamma Collaboration
12:21 H12.009
A Current Mode Ion Chamber for the n+p->D+gamma Parity Violation Experiment- William Snow (Indiana University/IUCF), NPDG Collaboration
12:33 H12.010
Measurement of parity violating \gamma-ray asymmetries of polarized neutron capture in ^35Cl and ^139La- Christopher Blessinger, Blessinger for the npdg Collaboration (LANL)
Sunday morning, 10:45, Room 14, Renaissance Hotel$
10:45 H14.001
Solar Energetic Particles and the Isotopic Composition of the Solar Corona- R. A. Leske, R. A. Mewaldt, C. M. S. Cohen, A. C. Cummings, E. C. Stone (Caltech), P. L. Slocum, M. E. Wiedenbeck (JPL), E. R. Christian, T. T. von Rosenvinge (NASA/GSFC)
10:57 H14.002
Do Solar Energetic Particles Represent an Accelerated Sample of Solar Wind?- R. A. Mewaldt, C. M. S. Cohen, R. A. Leske, A. C. Cummings, E. C. Stone (Caltech), M. E. Wiedenbeck (JPL), E. R. Christian, T. T. von Rosenvinge (GSFC)
11:09 H14.003
Voyager 1 and 2 Measurements of the Energy Spectra of Cosmic-Ray C, N, O, Ne, Mg, Si and Fe Nuclei in the Outer Heliosphere at the 1997-1998 Solar Minimum Activity- A. Lukasiak, F.B. McDonald (IPST, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742), W.R. Webber (Astronomy Department, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, NM 88003)
11:21 H14.004
The effect of self-consistent stochastic preacceleration of pickup ions on the composition of anomalous cosmic rays.- Frank C. Jones (NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center), Matthew G. Baring (Rice University), Donald C. Ellison (North Carolina State University)
11:33 H14.005
Exploring the Excluded Galactic Cosmic Rays--those at the Lowest Energies.- Maurice M. Shapiro (University of Maryland)
11:45 H14.006
CRIS measurements of 37Ar, 44Ti, 49V, 51Cr, 55Fe, and 57Co: Limits on Galactic Cosmic Ray Reacceleration- S.M. Niebur, W.R. Binns (Washington University), E.R. Christian (NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center), A.C. Cummings, J.S. George (California Institute of Technology), P.H. Hink, M.H. Israel (Washington University), R.A. Leske, R.A. Mewaldt, E.C. Stone (California Institute of Technology), T.T. von Rosenvinge (NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center), M.E. Wiedenbeck, N.E. Yanasak (Jet Propulsion Laboratory)
12:09 H14.007
NEON GCR ISOTOPIC ABUNDANCES: COMPARISON WITH WOLF-RAYET STAR MODELS AND METEORITIC ABUNDANCES- W.R. Binns (Washington University, St. Louis, MO 63130), P.L. Hink, M.H. Israel, M.E. Wiedenbeck (Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA 91109), A.C. Cummings (California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA 91125), R.A. Leske, R.A. Mewaldt, E.C. Stone, N.E. Yanasak, E.R. Christian (NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD 20771), T.T. von Rosenvinge
12:21 H14.008
Nucleosynthetic Contributions to the Cosmic-Rays Source- M.E. Wiedenbeck (JPL), W. R. Binns, P. L. Hink, M. H. Israel (Washington U.), A. C. Cummings, A. J. Davis, J. S. George, R. A. Leske, R. A. Mewaldt, E. C. Stone, N. E. Yanasak (Caltech), E. R. Christian, T. T. von Rosenvinge (NASA/GSFC)
12:33 H14.009
Limits on Radiative Capture Gamma-Ray Lines and Implications for Energy Content in Flare-Accelerated Protons- Gerald Share, Ronald Murphy (Naval Research Laboratory), Elizabeth Newton (NASA/MSFC)
12:45 H14.010
Measurement of the Cosmic-Ray Antiproton to Proton Ratio From 4 to 50 GeV- Stephane Coutu, James Beatty (Penn. State U.), Amit Bhattacharyya (Indiana U), Charles Bower (Indiana U.), Michael DuVernois (U. Minnesota), Allan Labrador (U. Chicago), Shawn Mckee (U. Michigan), Steve Minnick (Penn. State U.), Dietrich Muller (U. Chicago), James Musser (Indiana U.), Scott Nutter (E. New Mexico U.), Simon Swordy (U. Chicago), Gregory Tarle, Andrew Tomasch (U. Michigan), HEAT Collaboration
12:57 H14.011
The Secondary Cosmic-Ray Antiproton Spectrum- Ramin Sina (IPST, University of Maryland), Vladimir Ptuskin (IZMIRAN, Russia), Eun-Suk Seo (IPST, University of Maryland)
13:09 H14.012
Secondary Antiprotons in Cosmic Rays- Igor V. Moskalenko (NASA/GSFC), Andrew W. Strong (MPE, Germany), Jonathan F. Ormes (NASA/GSFC), Marius S. Potgieter (Potchefstroom, S.Africa)
13:21 H14.013
Cosmic Rays, the Black Pole and Extreme Climate.- J. Ely (U.Wash.)
13:33 H14.014
THE HEAVY NUCLEI EXPLORER (HNX) MISSION- W.R. Binns (Washington University, St. Louis, MO 63130), HNX Collaboration
Session H15. DNP: Nuclear Theory I.
Sunday morning, 10:45, Room 15, Renaissance Hotel$
10:45 H15.001
Ab initio Shell model and its application to A=6 systems- Bruce R. Barrett (University of Arizona), Petr Navratil (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory), James P. Vary (Iowa State University)
10:57 H15.002
Properties of 12-C in the ab-initio nuclear shell model*+- J.P. Vary (Iowa State U.), P. Navratil (Lawrence Livermore National Lab.), B.R. Barrett (U. Arizona)
11:09 H15.003
The Tucson-Melbourne Three-Body Force in a Translationally-Invariant Harmonic Oscillator Basis- David C. J. Marsden, Bruce R. Barrett (University of Arizona), Petr Navratil (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory), Sidney A. Coon (National Science Foundation)
11:21 H15.004
Nonlinear evolution of the surface within a liquid-drop model for nuclear structure- Andrei Ludu, Jerry P. Draayer (Louisiana State University)
11:33 H15.005
Classification of the nonlinear dynamics of nuclear shapes- Ulrich A. Eichmann, Andrei Ludu, Jerry P. Draayer (Louisiana State University)
11:45 H15.006
High P_T azimuthal asymmetry as sensitive measure of the initial conditions in A+A collisions- Miklos Gyulassy, Ivan Vitev (Columbia University), Xin-Nian Wang (Lawrence Berkeley Lab)
11:57 H15.007
\Delta-isobars and proton-nucleus scattering- F. Sammarruca (University of Idaho), E.J. Stephenson (IUCF)
12:09 H15.008
Deuteron stripping reactions using dirac phenomenology- E. A. Hawk, J. A. McNeil (Physics Department, Colorado School of Mines, Golden, Co. 80401)
12:21 H15.009
Eta-Nucleus Bound States- L.C. Liu (Los Alamos National Laboratory, T-16), Quamrul Haider (Physics Department, Fordham University)
12:33 H15.010
Dependence of binding energies and widths of eta-mesic nuclei on different theoretical approaches- Q. Haider (Physics Department, Fordham University, Bronx, N.Y. 10458), L.C. Liu (T-Division, Los Alamos National Labortaory, Los Alamos, N.M. 87545)
12:45 H15.011
Oblique Basis Space Calculations for the Nuclear Shell Model- Vesselin G. Gueorguiev, Jerry P. Draayer, William E. Ormand, Calvin W. Johnson (Louisiana State University)
12:57 H15.012
Random vs realistic interactions in the nuclear shell model- Mihai Horoi (Physics Department, Central Michigan University, Mount Pleasant, MI 48859), Vladimir Zelevinsky, B. Alex Brown (Department of Physics and Astronomy and National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI 48824)
H15.013
Shell Model Binding Energies of 1f_7/2 Nuclei relative to ^40Ca- Mihai Horoi (Department of Physics, Central Michigan University, Mount Pleasant, MI 48859), B. Alex Brown, Vladimir Zelevinsky (Department of Physics and Astronomy and National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory, Michigan State University, E. Lansing, MI 48824)