"In March 2016, the discovery team agreed on a conference call involving representatives from the parties involved on the name "tennessine" for element 117.In June 2016, IUPAC published a declaration stating the discoverers had submitted their suggestions for naming the new elements 115, 117, and 118 to the IUPAC; the suggestion for the element 117 was "tennessine", with a symbol of "Ts", after "the region of Tennessee".