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.
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.
