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LBTO 2014 Users' Meeting
LBTO 2014 Users' Meeting - Final Program (Mar 22, 2014)
Saturday, March 22
   
  Observatory visit - Mt Graham
   
14:00   Registration opens
   
18:00   Reception
Sunday, March 23
   
8:30   S1 - LBTO Status
8:30   Introduction
8:40   LBTO Status (C.Veillet)
9:15   LUCI2 - status report (J. Heidt)
9:30   MODS: The Multi-Object Double Spectrographs (R. Pogge)
9:45   LBTI: status and recent progress (D. Defrere)
10:00   LINC-NIRVANA: Final Lab Integration, First Light Experiments, Challenges, and Future (T. Herbst)
10:15   High-resolution spectroscopy and polarimetry with PEPSI: the key science projects (K. Strassmeier)
10:30   Coffee Break - Posters
11:00   S2 - Science 1
11:00   Galaxies and AGN observations with LBT: results, issues and perspectives (E. Sani)
11:15   Spectroscopic Survey of Gravitationally Lensed z ~7 Galaxies in Massive Galaxy Cluster Fields (B. Clement)
11:30   A Spectroscopic Study of Gravitationally Lensed Herschel Galaxies (G. Walth)
11:45   The UltraViolet side of CANDELS with LBC/LBT: the Lyman continuum escape fraction of star forming galaxies at z~3 (A. Grazian)
12:00   LBC Deep Imaging of Galaxy Clusters: Intracluster Light and Ultra-faint Lensed Galaxies (E. Giallongo)
12:15   The LBT in the Era of Gravity Wave Detection (P. Garnavich)
12:30   Lunch
13:30   S3 - Mid-term Future
    What is LBT for the partners?
13:30   AZ (B. Januzzi)
13:35   INAF (A. Fontana)
13:40   LBTB (R. Gredel)
13:47   OSU-RC (B. Peterson)
13:55   LBT2020 mission (LBTO)
14:20   Round Table/Discussion
    Which mission for LBTO before the ELTs?
15:00   Coffee Break - Posters
15:30   S4 - Operations 1
15:30   Introduction (LBTO)
15:35   The Italian Spectroscopic Reduction Center (M. Fumana)
15:50   The MODS Pipeline: Reduction and Calibration of MODS Data (K. Croxall)
16:05   The LBT Italian Coordination Facility Data Handling and Distribution Service (V. Testa)
16:20   LBT Distributed Archive: new improvements and perspectives (R. Smareglia)
16:35   Round Table/Discussion
    An LBTO-wide archival and public dissemination policy for raw and pre-processed data?
17:00   End of session
17:15-18:15   Breakout Session 1
    The users meet the support astronomers around the facility instruments (M. Edwards, O. Kuhn, D. Thompson)
Monday, March 24
     
8:30   S5 - Upgrades and New Instruments 1
8:30 LBC upgrade (F. Pedichini)
8:50 LUCIPOL (S. Scuderi)
9:10 State of the art Adaptive Optics wavefront sensor cameras at First Light Imaging (P. Feautrier)
9:25 iFUN@LBT (Integral Field Unit with NICS at LBT) (E. Sani)
9:45 The iLocater Doppler Spectrometer (J. Crepp)
10:05 Technology Development for Flexible LBT Multi-object Multi-instrument Spectroscopy (R. Pogge)
10:20 OH Suppression Spectroscopy for the LBT (R. Thompson)
10:35   Coffee Break - Posters
11:00   S6 - Science 2
11:00   LUCI spectroscopy of distant galaxies (J. Kurk)
11:15   LBT/AO observations of AGN (F. Fiore)
11:30   CHAOS: The Chemical Abundance Of Spirals (K. Croxall)
11:45   Dwarf spheroidal satellites of M31: Variable stars and stellar populations (F. Cusano)
12:00   No stripped hydrogen in the nebular spectra of nearby Type Ia Supernova 2011fe (B. Shappee)
12:15   Searching For Failed Supernovae (J. Gerke)
12:30   Lunch
13:30   S7 - Operations 2
13:30   Introduction (LBTO)
13:40   A unified Observation Preparation Software for the LBT (W. Gaessler)
13:55   The INAF Service Mode Observations (R. Speziali)
14:10   Optical turbulence forecasts: perspectives for an efficient management of observing programs at LBT (E. Masciardi)
14:25   Round Table/Discussion
    Observing more efficiently at LBTO… Moving to Queue?
15:00   Coffee Break - Posters
15:30   S8 - Science 3
15:30   The double red giant branch in M2 seen through spectroscopy (C. Lardo)
15:45   The absolute age of M15 through high-resolution LBT/PISCES images (V. Testa) - canceled
16:00   The Bologna Open Clusters Chemical Evolution project (P. Donati)
16:15   Uncovering Milky Way Globular Cluster Formation and Evolution with LBC+LUCI (M. Norris)
16:30   Exoplanet Imaging with the LBT (A. Skemer)
    Introduction to Breakout Session 2
16:45   Binocular observation at LBTO (J. Hill)
    Wall-eyed observations with LBTI (A. Skemer)
17:00   End of session
17:15-18:15   Breakout Session 2
    LBTO in binocular mode: how do the observers want to use it?
18:30   Conference Dinner
Tuesday, March 25
     
8:30   S9 - Upgrades and New Instruments 2
8:30   LBT Single-Conjugate AO systems upgrade (S. Esposito)
8:50   SHARK - System for coronography with High order Adaptive optics from R to K band (I. Pagano- J.Farinato)
9:10   ARGOS upgrade (S. Rabian)
9:30   An IFU for LMIRCam (A. Skemer)
9:50   Visible Light Interferometry with the LBT (P. Hinz)
10:10   LBTO-IFTS (G. Morrison)
10:30   Coffee Break - Posters
11:00   S10 - Long-term Future
    Round Table/Discussion
    LBT before the ELTs… and in complement to them
     
    Meeting wrap-up
    Next actions
12:30   Lunch