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.

Introduction to Cryptography

We will see how to leverage one-wayness to generate pseudorandomness and discuss implications to complexity theory. Subsequently, we will look at different notions of symmetric-key primitives including symmetric-key encryption, message authentication codes and collision-resistant hash functions.

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

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Course
Organisation
CWI educators
CWI group
Period
1 jan 2023 – 1 feb 2023
Level
MSc

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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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.

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Course
Organisation
CWI educators
CWI group
Period
1 sep 2022 – 31 oct 2022
Level
MSc