The Inverted CSC (iCSC) is a 4 day long school, organised at CERN. It consists of lectures and hands-on exercises on a variety of topics, given by former CSC students. This school provides the students with a platform to share their knowledge – and by doing so, it effectively “inverts” the roles by turning students into teachers.

This year's iCSC will include topics on Machine Learning and LLMs, HEP Computing, Best Coding Practices, Parallel computing and many more.

The school will take place on March 16-19, 2026 as a hybrid event - at CERN and on Zoom. All lecturers will be included in the Zoom event, however for the hands on exercises no Zoom will be available.

For external participants we will arrange visits to the Laboratory on Friday 20th of March.

The school is free of charge and participants from outside of CERN are welcome to take part as well. During the event you are welcome to take part in the daily coffee breaks. We will not arrange for any accommodation or travel for participants, nor any other catering.

Registration for external participants will open in January 2026. By registering you are not obliged to stay for all lectures, you can attend the ones that interest you the most.