June 13 Science Cafe – Building New Elements Beyond the Periodic Table

East Bay Science Cafe

Building New Elements Beyond the Periodic Table

with Dr. Jacklyn Gates

Thursday June 13, 2019

Doors at 6:00 PM, Talk at 7:00 PM

Cafe Leila, 1724 San Pablo Ave. Berkeley, CA
Space is limited!
Audience will be admitted until the venue reaches capacity.
Join us at Cafe Leila on San Pablo Avenue for an evening of science, conversation, and community. Cafe Leila specializes in fresh California Cuisine and artisanal tea drinks. BYOB (wine and beer) is welcome with purchase of menu item.
Like modern day and much more scientific alchemists, nuclear chemists work to construct elements that don’t exist on earth but may reside on proton-packed Islands of Stability off the far end of the periodic table, where these new heaviest elements could be long lived. Learn how six new elements were added to the periodic table in the last seven years, and the techniques scientists use to construct and deduce the physical and chemical properties of new elements from just a few ephemeral atoms.
NEWS CENTER FIONA to Take on the Periodic Table’s Heavyweights New device at Berkeley Lab’s 88-Inch Cyclotron is designed to measure the mass number of superheavy, human-made elements Feature Story Glenn Roberts Jr. (510) 486-5582 • MAY 3, 2017 Share 91 Tweet 39 Reddit +1 12 Share 74 216 SHARES Photo - Berkeley Lab Scientists Jacklyn Gates, left, and Kenneth Gregorich work on FIONA, a new device at the Lab’s 88-Inch Cyclotron. FIONA is designed precisely measure the mass number of the periodic table’s superheavy elements, and could also be useful for other types of explorations of superheavy elements. (Credit: Marilyn Chung/Berkeley Lab) Berkeley Lab Scientists Jackie Gates, left, and Kenneth Gregorich work on FIONA, a new device at the Lab’s 88-Inch Cyclotron.

FIONA to Take on the Periodic Table’s Heavyweights

Dr. Jacklyn Gates

Jacklyn Gates is the Group Leader of the Heavy Element Group at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. She earned her PhD in nuclear chemistry in 2008 and spent a year in Germany before returning to the US to join the Heavy Element Group.  

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