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.
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.
The courses they teach are listed below in chronological order, starting with the earliest upcoming course.
Algorithmic Mechanism Design (AMD) is a research area that lies at the interface of Game Theory and Algorithms and Optimization. On a high level, the goal in AMD is to develop algorithms that induce "socially desirable" outcomes in situations in which several strategic decision makers (or agents) are involved. Examples of the many applications of AMD include auctions, matching markets, voting systems, environmental regulations, fair allocation and division, cost and energy sharing, etc. To achieve the above, we need to design algorithms that (i) compute such desirable outcomes efficiently, and (ii) determine an incentive scheme for the agents such that it is in each agents' self-interest to adhere to the computed solution. Naturally, the development of such algorithms is even more challenging than "traditional" algorithm design.
