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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