17–19 Mar 2026
Leibniz Institute for Astrophysics Potsdam (AIP)
Europe/Berlin timezone

Programme overview

--- Preliminary agenda ---

All slots include 5 minutes for questions.

17th March (Tuesday)

11:30-13:00 Lunch option

13:30-15:55 XMM-Newton & SAS status (1) - Open session

13:30 Welcome   Natalie Webb
13:50 XMM-Newton mission status   Felix Fürst
14:15 SAS status and development   Aitor Ibarra
14:50 Pipeline status and summary of the bulk reprocessing   Pedro Rodriguez
15:10 EPIC pn status   Michael Freyberg
15:25 EPIC MOS status   Jean Ballet
15:40 RGS status   Aitor Ibarra

15:55-16:25 Coffee break

16:25-18:10 XMM-Newton & SAS status (2) - Open session

16:25 OM status   Simon Rosen
16:40 NASA XMMGOF status and activities   Brendan Perry
16:55 The XCatDB status and prospects   Laurent Michel
17:15 The slew catalogue   Natalie Webb
17:30 The source-detector's view on 5XMM   Iris Traulsen
17:50 5XMM-DR15   Mickael Coriat

20:00   Meeting dinner

18th March (Wednesday)

09:30-10:50 Science Advisory Group (1) - Open session

09:30 Agent-Ready "Mini-SAS" Microservices for Language-Driven X-ray Data Analysis   Aitor Ibarra
09:50 Highly Variable Sources in the XMM Slew Survey   Robbie Webbe
10:10 Extreme ends of AGN variability   Sabina Bahic
10:30 Analysing HETDEX spectra from XMM detections   Hema Priya Rajangam

10:50-11:20 Coffee break

11:20-13:00 Science Advisory Group (2) - Open session

11:20 Quantifying the Intrinsic scatter in magnetic activity  of cool stars using wide binaries   Desmond Dsouza
11:40 Serendipitous Searches for Isolated Neutron Stars in XMM-Newton Catalogues   Adriana Mancini Pires
12:00 Characterising isolated neutron star candidates from eROSITA with XMM-Newton   Jan Kurpas
12:20 X-ray Periodicities in the Gamma Cas Analogues   Robbie Webbe
12:40 Wrap up   Natalie Webb

13:00-14:00 Lunch break

15:00-16:15 SAS Working Group (1)

15:00  Overview of SAS releases - SAS 23 and SAS 24 contents (RDS)
15:20  Status of code release - Numerical Recipes etc. (JK)
15:40  EPIC-pn developments (MJF)
16:00  Running SAS on Mac ARM chips (AI)

16:20-16:40 Coffee break

16:40-18:15 SAS Working Group (2)

16:40  Source detection (IT)
17:00  SAS development environment (CI/CD) (JM)
17:20  ESAS updates and future plans (BP)
17:40  SAS and Python (RT)
18:00  Wrap-up and good-bye

19th March (Thursday)

09:00-12:00 SSC Steering Group - Closed session

11:30-14:00 Lunch option

Guided tours

Guided tours to the Babelsberg campus and to the historical buildings at Telegrafenberg will be offered on Tuesday and / or Wednesday depending on the participants' interest.