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Education Night: Mark Cesa, "Where New Elements Come From, and How They Get Their Names"

September 27, 2019
5:30 PM - 9:00 PM
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Loyola University - Chemistry Department (Flanner Hall)
1068 West Sheridan Road
Chicago, IL 60660
http://www.luc.edu/chemistry/
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Education Night
High School Scholarship Presentations, Project SEED & Student Posters,
Educational Solar Kits, plus:

Mark Cesa

2014-2015 President, International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry
INEOS USA LLC (Retired)

"Where New Elements Come From, and How They Get Their Names"

ABSTRACT

2019 is the International Year of the Periodic Table. Laboratories around the world work together to discover new elements, and several elements have been discovered and added to the periodic table in recent years. People love to learn about new elements and even to suggest names and symbols for them. But how are new elements named, and how are their new atomic symbols chosen? The International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry, IUPAC, and the International Union of Pure and Applied Physics, IUPAP, collaborate with discoverers to verify claims for new elements and to recommend names and atomic symbols for them. In this talk the processes of research, discovery, verification and naming of new elements will be described.

PROGRAM

• 5:30 - 6:30 Registration and Project SEED & Student Poster Session

• 6:00 - 6:30 Presentation by Dr. Co (Room 105 of Flanner Hall)

• 6:30 - 7:30 Dinner

• 7:30 - 7:40 Introductory remarks & Safety-First Minute
• 7:40 - 7:50 Presentation of High School Scholarships and Teacher Awards

• 7:45 - 8:30+ Main Lecture

• Younger Chemists Committee after-party at nearby Irelands Pub (irelandsluc.com, 6511 N. Sheridan)

LOCATIONS:

MAIN SITE (With live speaker): TBD

REMOTE LOCATION #1: Purdue University Northwest (Hammond, IN)

FACEBOOK LIVE: facebook.com/ChicagoACS

TEACHERS! All K-12 educators can receive continuing education credits for attending our meetings. Get your CE form at the registration desk.

POSTER SESSION

High school students who worked in research labs this summer as part of Project SEED will showcase their science in a pre-dinner poster session. Come see what they achieved!

ALL STUDENTS who would like to showcase their research are welcome to do so! Please register here:

STUDENT POSTER REGISTRATION FORM
https://chicagoacs.org/form.php?form_id=51&c=1

PRE-DINNER PRESENTATION:

Dr. Dick Co, of DC Technologies, will give us an update on his startup company's educational solar kits. Please recall his engaging presentation at our December 2018 meeting, where he described his journey from developing "solar fuels" to following his passion for educaiton and entrepreneurship: https://chicagoacs.org/meetinginfo.php?id=136

DINNER - Main site only: Dining will be enjoyed at the DeNobili cafeteria, across the street from the lecture venue, Flanner Hall. Tickets are $15, and enable diners to partake of all the facility's offerings.

RESERVATIONS:

Dinner Registration Deadline: 12:00 Noon on Wednesday, September 25
Lecture-only Registration Deadline: 12:00 noon Thursday, September 26

QUESTIONS OR NON-WEB RESERVATIONS? Please contact the Section Office via phone (847-391-9091) or email ([email protected]).

BIOGRAPHY

Dr. Mark C. Cesa is an organic chemist. He has carried out research in the chemical industry on new chemical reactions, process improvements, and safety and environmental protection. He retired from INEOS USA LLC in 2015. Mark was 2014-2015 President of IUPAC. In IUPAC he administered the Safety Training Program for chemists in the developing world, and he was a member of a committee of the U. S. National Academies on promoting chemical safety in developing countries. He has held offices in the Cleveland (Ohio) and Chicago sections of the ACS and at the national level and is an ACS Fellow. Mark earned an A. B. in chemistry from Princeton University and M.S. and Ph.D. in organic chemistry from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

AFTER-PARTY

The Younger Chemists Committee will host an after-party at nearby Ireland's Pub 10,
6511 N. Sheridan.

Everyone is welcome to join!

MAIN LOCATION - DIRECTIONS and PARKING:

LIVE LECTURE:

Loyola University
Flanner Hall, Room 133
1068 W. Sheridan Rd.
Chicago, IL 60660

Map & Directions: http://chicagoacs.org/images/downloads/Maps_of_venues/loyola_mapdir_flanner.pdf

PARKING IN MAIN STRUCTURE: $7.50 cash/credit

STREAMING LOCATION - DIRECTIONS and PARKING:

Purdue University Northwest
Gyte Building, Room 240
2200 169th St.
Hammond, IN 46323

Map: http://chicagoacs.org/images/downloads/Maps_of_venues/purduenw_map.pdf

PARKING: free

Tickets

$15.00 MAIN SITE DINNER

$0.00 MAIN SITE - Lecture only registration

$0.00 REMOTE SITE #1 - Lecture only registration

$0.00 REMOTE SITE #2 - Lecture-only registration

$0.00 REMOTE SITE #4 - Lecture-only registration

$15.00 T-shirt: CHICAgO Elements

$0.00 Individual Donation (flexible amount)

$0.00 Company Sponsorship (flexible amount)