Courses

CWI highly values education. CWI researchers not only supervise and inspire the CWI PhD students, but also aim at contributing to teaching Master's students at universities. See the overview of CWI's current involvement in teaching courses in the Netherlands below.

Contribution to education

CWI is a research institute and does not have education as an institutional task. However, many of the senior researchers of CWI contribute to education via an affiliation or part-time appointment at one of the Dutch universities. CWI conveys the knowledge of the scientists employed at our institute to the new generation of mathematics and computer science students. Our staff contributes by e.g. teaching a university course or supervising MSc thesis projects carried out by university students. They also supervise PhD students at CWI, who defend their thesis at one of the Dutch universities after their employment at CWI. All courses can be found below in alphabetical order. You can also open the pdf for a complete overview.

Selected Areas in Cryptology

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Focus

The goal of this course is to provide insight into cryptography secure against quantum computers (post-quantum cryptography) as well as various methods for the mathematical cryptanalysis of cryptographic systems.

Type
Course
Organisation
CWI educators
CWI group
Period
2 feb 2026 – 29 may 2026
Location
Universiteit Utrecht, De Uithof
Level
MSc
ECTS
8.00

Lattices and Their Algorithms

This course will propose to study euclidean lattices (discrete subgroups of the Euclidean vector space Rn) and related questions arising in various areas of mathematics and computer science (Geometry of Numbers, Algebraic Number Theory, Coding Theory, Cryptography).

Type
Course
Organisation
CWI educators
CWI group
Period
1 sep 2025 – 1 feb 2026
Location
Universiteit Leiden
Level
MSc
ECTS
6.00

Modern Cryptography

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Focus

This Master's level course provides an introduction to modern cryptography, the science of securing communication and computation against different forms of adversarial behaviors.

Type
Course
Organisation
CWI educators
CWI group
Period
1 sep 2025 – 19 dec 2025
Level
MSc
ECTS
8.00

Interactive Proofs

This course provides an introduction to "interactive proofs", a fundamental concept and active research topic in theoretical computer science, particularly in complexity theory and cryptography.

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Focus

The goal of the course is to provide an introduction to 'interactive proofs', a fundamental concept in theoretical computer science, and to discuss complexity-theoretic as well as cryptographic aspects, covering classical examples but also touching upon recent results.

Type
Course
Organisation
CWI educators
CWI group
Period
1 sep 2025 – 8 dec 2025
Level
MSc
ECTS
6.00

Selected Areas in Cryptology

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Focus

The goal of this course is to provide insight into cryptography secure against quantum computers (post-quantum cryptography) as well as various methods for the mathematical cryptanalysis of cryptographic systems.

Type
Course
Organisation
CWI educators
CWI group
Period
3 feb 2025 – 23 may 2025
Location
Universiteit Utrecht, De Uithof
Level
MSc
ECTS
8.00

Modern Cryptography

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Focus

This Master's level course provides an introduction to modern cryptography, the science of securing communication and computation against different forms of adversarial behaviors.

Type
Course
Organisation
CWI educators
CWI group
Period
9 sep 2024 – 16 dec 2024
Level
MSc
ECTS
8.00

Lattices and Their Algorithms

This course will propose to study euclidean lattices (discrete subgroups of the Euclidean vector space Rn) and related questions arising in various areas of mathematics and computer science (Geometry of Numbers, Algebraic Number Theory, Coding Theory, Cryptography).

Type
Course
Organisation
CWI educators
CWI group
Period
5 feb 2024 – 7 jul 2024
Location
Universiteit Leiden
Level
MSc
ECTS
6.00

Quantum Computing

We introduce and study the mathematics of quantum information science, which brings together quantum mechanics and theoretical computer science, with a focus on information theoretic (instead of computational) aspects in this course.

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Focus

The goal of the course is to familiarize the students with the basic concepts of quantum information theory, and to offer an in-depth understanding of certain selected topics within the field.

Type
Course
Organisation
CWI educators
CWI group
Period
1 sep 2023 – 31 oct 2023
Level
MSc