FRANCI 2026

Monday 20 Jul 2026, 09:00 → 23:59 Europe/Berlin

Ground Floor Seminar (JMU Würzburg)

Ainara Saiz Pérez (Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg), Dimitris Tsatsis, Hrishikesh Shetgaonkar, Karen Terveer (Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nürnberg, Erlangen Centre for Astroparticle Physics), Martin Schneider (ECAP, FAU), Raoul Kinadeter, Saurabh Mittal

FRANCI 2026

The FRanconian Astronomy Neighborhood Collaboration Incentive 2026 will take place in Würzburg this year. 

Information about the venue, travel details and evening program, is not currently available but will be placed in Event Details.

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

09:30 → 10:15 Registration and coffee

10:15 → 10:30 Presentations: Welcoming remarks

10:15 Welcoming remarks

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

Opening_FRANCI2026.pdf

10:30 → 11:30 Presentations: Session 1

10:30 Wetterstein Millimeter Telescope: science goals and project status

Speaker: Jompoj Wongphechauxsorn (JMU Würzburg)

1_WongphechauxsornJompoj.pdf

10:45 From Würzburg to New Mexico: commissioning of two radio telescopes

Speaker: Lovis Haury (JMU Würzburg)

2_FRANCI_2026_HauryLovis.pdf

11:00 Hot subluminous stars in the Plato era

Speaker: Anna Gebhardt (Dr. Karl Remeis Observatory Bamberg)

3_Gebhardt_Talk_Franci_2026.pdf

11:15 Status of the Small-Sized Telescope Camera for CTAO

Speaker: Giulia Cantarini (ECAP)

4_Giulia_Cantarini_FRANCI.pdf

11:30 → 12:00 Coffee & Poster Session

12:00 → 13:00 Presentations: Session 2

12:00 Wind Related Background Events at the Radio Neutrino Observatory in Greenland

Speaker: Pascal Schriefer (ECAP)

1_FRANCI26_Pascal_Schriefer.pdf

12:15 Probing extreme processes in AGNs with numerical simulations

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

2_SaizPerez_Ainara.pptx

12:30 Transitioning Between Theory and Observations of Strongly Magnetized Accreting Neutron Stars

Speaker: Nureldin Schettino (Dr. Karl Remeis Observatory Bamberg)

3_FRANCI Talk Schettino.pptx

12:45 From Sky to Detector: XMM-Newton Simulations with SIXTE

Speaker: Esin Gulbahar (Dr. Karl Remeis Observatory Bamberg)

4_Gulbahar_SIXTE-pres-FRANCI26.pdf

13:00 → 14:30 Lunch break

14:30 → 15:30 Presentations: Session 3

14:30 Constraining the Enigma of Pulsar Halos with eROSITA

Speaker: Martin Mayer (Dr. Karl Remeis Observatory Bamberg)

1_MartinMayer_FRANCI.pdf

14:45 Overview of multimessenger astronomy in AG Buson (TBD)

Speaker: Leonard Pfeiffer (JMU Würzburg)

FRANCI2026_MessMapp_Group_Summary.pdf

15:00 Water Tank–Based Measurement System for Optical Modules of Neutrino Telescopes

Speaker: Simon Koch (ECAP)

3_presentation_Simon_Koch.pdf

15:15 Fibre-based Phase Camera for the Einstein Telescope

Speaker: Stuti Sharma (ECAP)

4_FRANCI_2026_Sharma_Stuti.pdf

15:30 → 16:00 Coffee & Poster Session

16:00 → 17:00 Presentations: Session 4

16:00 Overview of high-energy astronomy in AG Mannheim (TBD)

Speaker: Katharina Brand (JMU Würzburg)

1_FRANCI_Vortrag_Katharina_Brand.pptx

16:15 Systematic study of HII regions in the Magellanic Clouds with eROSITA

Speaker: Mar Canal i Saguer (Dr. Karl Remeis Observatory Bamberg)

2_FRANCI_20_07_26 (1).pdf

16:30 IACTs in a Different Light: Pointing, Calibration, and Optical Astronomy

Speaker: Gerrit Roellinghoff (ECAP)

16:45 Nuclear Astrophysics and MeV Astronomy

Speaker: Laura Eisenberger (JMU Würzburg)

4_FRANCI_26_AGSiegert.pdf

18:00 → 22:00 BBQ and Open Ending