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.

Interactive Proofs

This course provides an introduction to "interactive proofs", a fundamental concept and active research topic in theoretical computer science, particularly in complexity theory and cryptography.

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Focus

The goal of the course is to provide an introduction to 'interactive proofs', a fundamental concept in theoretical computer science, and to discuss complexity-theoretic as well as cryptographic aspects, covering classical examples but also touching upon recent results.

Type
Course
Organisation
CWI educators
CWI group
Period
1 Sep 2025 – 8 Dec 2025
Level
MSc
ECTS
6.00