Inverted CERN School of Computing 2026

from Monday, 16 March 2026 (09:00) to Thursday, 19 March 2026 (20:40)
CERN (31/3-004)

        : Sessions
    /     : Talks
        : Breaks
16 Mar 2026
17 Mar 2026
18 Mar 2026
19 Mar 2026
AM
09:00 Welcome to the Inverted School of Computing - Alberto Pace (CERN)  
09:15 How performance analysis of real software works: the case of MadGraph (Lecture 1) - Daniele Massaro (CERN)  
10:15 Neural Scaling Laws (Lecture 1) - Albert Aillet  
11:15 --- Coffee break ---
11:40 Neural Scaling Laws (Lecture 2) - Albert Aillet  
09:00 Speed Without The Pain: Accelerating Python With Numba (Lecture 1) - Kiran Jonathan  
10:00 Graphical Record Linkage with Big Data - Mr Isidro Javier García Fernández (European Central Bank)  
11:00 --- Coffee break ---
11:30 Keeping Things Stable: How Controllers Tackle Complexity in Modern Physics (Lecture 1) - Alexander Bohmer (Vienna University of Technology (AT))  
09:00 Cybersecurity in scientific computing: integrity, trust, and security principles in research environments (Lecture 1) - Mrs Aleksandra Kowalczuk (Accenture/WSB Merito Universities/University of Warsaw)  
10:00 Self-Attention as a Stack of Finite-Dimensional Ising Models: A Statistical-Physics Viw with GPU-Accelerated Prototype (Lecture) - Lehar Laxmi Joshi  
11:00 --- Coffee break ---
11:30 Cybersecurity in scientific computing: integrity, trust, and security principles in research environments (Lecture 2) - Mrs Aleksandra Kowalczuk (Accenture/WSB Merito Universities/University of Warsaw)  
09:00 Authentication and Authorization for Global Research Infrastructure (Lecture) - Donald Chung (STFC)  
10:00 Modern I/O and Storage Systems for Scientific Computing (Lecture 1) - Gianmaria Del Monte (CERN)  
11:00 --- Coffee break ---
11:30 Git in Practice: Techniques for Collaborative Development (Lecture) - Lizzie Salmon  
PM
12:40 --- Common lunch and networking ---
14:00 How performance analysis of real software works: the case of MadGraph (Lecture 2) - Daniele Massaro (CERN)  
15:00 Parallel computing with RISC-V vectors (lecture) - Airat Galiamov (Promwad d.o.o.)  
16:00 --- Coffee break ---
16:30 How performance analysis of real software works: the case of MadGraph (Excercises) - Daniele Massaro (CERN)   (513/1-024)
16:30 Neural Scaling Laws (Excercises) - Albert Aillet   (31/S-028)
12:30 --- Common lunch and networking ---
14:00 Keeping Things Stable: How Controllers Tackle Complexity in Modern Physics (Lecture 1) - Alexander Bohmer (Vienna University of Technology (AT))  
15:00 Speed Without The Pain: Accelerating Python With Numba (Lecture 2) - Kiran Jonathan  
16:00 --- Coffee break ---
16:30 Keeping Things Stable: How Controllers Tackle Complexity in Modern Physics (Excercises) - Alexander Bohmer (Vienna University of Technology (AT))   (31/S-023)
16:30 Speed Without The Pain: Accelerating Python With Numba (Excercises) - Kiran Jonathan   (513/1-024)
12:30 --- Common lunch and networking ---
14:00 Hell of Learning Pathologies and Stairway to Hyperparameters - a practical guide to neural networks tuning (Lecture) - Jaroslaw Szumega (CERN, Mines Paris - PSL)  
15:00 --- Coffee break ---
15:30 Cybersecurity in scientific computing: integrity, trust, and security principles in research environments (Excercises 1) - Mrs Aleksandra Kowalczuk (Accenture/WSB Merito Universities/University of Warsaw)   (513/1-024)
15:30 Self-Attention as a Stack of Finite-Dimensional Ising Models: A Statistical-Physics Viw with GPU-Accelerated Prototype (Excercises) - Lehar Laxmi Joshi   (513/R-070 - Openlab Space)
16:30 Cybersecurity in scientific computing: integrity, trust, and security principles in research environments (Excercises 2) - Mrs Aleksandra Kowalczuk (Accenture/WSB Merito Universities/University of Warsaw)   (513/1-024)
16:30 Hell of Learning Pathologies and Stairway to Hyperparameters - a practical guide to neural networks tuning (Excercises) - Jaroslaw Szumega (CERN, Mines Paris - PSL)   (513/R-070 - Openlab Space)
12:30 --- Common lunch and networking ---
14:00 Modern I/O and Storage Systems for Scientific Computing (Lecture 2) - Gianmaria Del Monte (CERN)  
15:00 Closing remarks - Alberto Pace (CERN)  
15:15 --- Coffee break ---
15:40 Dimensionality Reduction: Linear Transformations and Autoencoders - Dr Athar Khodabakhsh (Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin)  
15:40 Modern I/O and Storage Systems for Scientific Computing (Excercises) - Gianmaria Del Monte (CERN)   (513/R-070 - Openlab Space)
16:40 Authentication and Authorization for Global Research Infrastructure (Excercises) - Donald Chung (STFC)   (31/S-023)
16:40 Git in Practice: Techniques for Collaborative Development (Excercises) - Lizzie Salmon   (513/R-070 - Openlab Space)