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.

Quantum Information Theory

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This course offers a mathematical introduction to Quantum Information Theory. We will start with the fundamentals (such as quantum states, measurements, and channels) and then discuss some more advanced topics (such as compression of quantum information and entanglement theory).

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Course
Organisation
CWI educators
CWI group
Other educators
  • Ozols, Maria (Lecturer)
Period
5 feb 2024 – 24 may 2024
Level
MSc
ECTS
8.00

Advanced Quantum Algorithms

A major claim to fame of quantum computers is that they will be able to solve some problems significantly faster than believed to be possible on a classical computer. The design of further quantum algorithms is an exciting active field of research, and there is still much left to explore in understanding which problems can be sped up by quantum computers, and by how much.

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In this course, students will learn about various advanced topics in quantum algorithms and algorithm design, as well as techniques for understanding for which problems it is possible to get a quantum speedup, and by how much.

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Course
Organisation
CWI educators
CWI group
Period
1 feb 2024 – 31 mar 2024
Level
MSc
ECTS
6.00

Quantum Computing

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Quantum Computing

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Course
Organisation
CWI educators
CWI group
Period
13 sep 2023 – 20 dec 2023
Level
MSc

Additive combinatorics

Additive combinatorics is a relatively new area of mathematics that brings together areas such as combinatorial and analytic number theory, Ramsey theory, harmonic analysis, graph theory, extremal combinatorics, algebraic methods, ergodic theory and probability theory.

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To expose key ideas behind the Fourier-analytic and graph-theoretic proofs of Szemerédi's theorem, in addition to algebraic techniques used recently in breakthrough works for three-term arithmetic progressions in the finite-field setting.

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Course
Organisation
CWI educators
CWI group
Period
1 mar 2023 – 30 apr 2023
Level
MSc