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