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.

Additive Combinatorics and Applications

Additive combinatorics is a relatively new area of mathematics that brings together topics such as combinatorial and analytic number theory, Ramsey theory, harmonic analysis, graph theory, extremal combinatorics, algebraic methods, ergodic theory and probability theory. The area has strong connections with theoretical computer science, including quantum computing. A centerpiece result is the Green-Tao theorem, which asserts that the prime numbers contain arbitrarily long arithmetic progressions. A general theme that drives much of the area has to do with relating quantitative notions of approximate algebraic structure.

URL
Type
Course
Organisation
CWI educators
CWI group
Period
1 feb 2027 – 4 jul 2027
Location
Leiden
Level
MSc
ECTS
6.00