FRANCI 2025

Monday 28 Jul 2025, 09:00 → 23:59 Europe/Berlin

Stephanshof Bamberg

Ainara Saiz Pérez (Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg), Andreas Zmija (ECAP), Hrishikesh Shetgaonkar, Karen Terveer (Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nürnberg, Erlangen Centre for Astroparticle Physics), Martin Schneider (ECAP, FAU)

FRANCI 2025

The FRanconian Astronomy Neighborhood Collaboration Incentive 2025 will take place in Bamberg this year. 

For more information about the venue, travel details and evening program, please refer to the Event Details.

The meeting schedule will be available at Timetable (TBD).

09:00 → 10:00 Check in & Coffee

10:00 → 11:00 Presentations: Session 1

10:00 Welcome

Speaker: Max & Lea

10:15 Hydrodynamic Simulations of the Supernova Remnant Puppis A with PLUTO

Speaker: Marie Prucker (Remeis Observatory)

Marie_Prucker.pdf

10:30 Using galactic neutrinos for constraining Lorentz Invariance Violation

Speaker: Jelena Celic

Jelena_Celic.pdf

10:45 TBD

Speaker: Annette Bremer (Universität Würzburg)

FRANCI_2025_MessMapp_group_activities.pdf

11:00 → 11:30 Coffee & Poster Session

11:30 → 12:15 Presentations: Session 2

11:30 XMM-Newton Analysis of SNR J0406-7009

Speaker: Edwin John Anthikat

Edwin_John_Anthikat .pdf

11:45 The IceCube Upgrade

Speaker: Anna Eimer

Franci25_IceCubeUpgrade.pdf

12:00 Constraining the Physics of Very-High-Energy Emission in Blazars through High-Frequency Radio Monitoring

Speaker: Florian Eppel (JMU Würzburg)

Eppel_FRANCI2025.pdf

12:15 → 13:45 Lunch break

13:45 → 14:30 Presentations: Session 3

13:45 Hot subdwarf stars from the Hamburg Quasar survey

Speaker: Lennard Kufleitner

Lennard_Kufleitner.pdf

14:00 Search for Axion-like Particles from Massive Stars

Speaker: Saurabh Mittal

Saurabh_Mittal.pdf

14:15 Detecting extensive air showers with SKA-low

Speaker: Philipp Laub (Erlangen Centre for Astroparticle Physics (ECAP), Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg)

SKA_FRANCI25_PhilippLaub.pdf

14:30 → 15:00 Coffee & Poster Session

15:00 → 15:45 Presentations: Session 4

15:00 Spectral Behavior of Cepheus X-4 at Low Luminosity: Cyclotron Line Analysis Challenged by NuSTAR Instrumental Background

Speaker: Deniz Demirci

Deniz_Demirci.pdf

15:15 Joint searches for neutrinos from the galactic plane with KM3NeT and IceCube

Speaker: Anke Mosbrugger

KM3NeT_IceCube_FRANCI.pdf

15:30 High-energy Gamma ray astronomy in Würzburg - from Lightcurves to Skymaps

Speaker: Patrick Günther

Patrick_Guenther.pdf

15:45 → 16:15 Coffee & Poster Session

16:15 → 17:00 Presentations: Session 5

16:15 Raytracing in the SIXTE Simulator

Speaker: Neo Reinmann

Neo_Reinmann.pdf

16:30 TBD

Speaker: Markus Pirke (ECAP)

FRANCI_2025_Pirke.pdf

16:45 Probing the physics of jet launching and propagation through numerical simulations

Speaker: Ainara Saiz Pérez (Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg)

AG_Fromm_2025Projects.pdf

18:00 → 22:00 BBQ at Observatory / FRANCI Ball

22:30 → 23:59 Observing