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 pfd for a complete overview.

Algorithms in Sequence Analysis

Focus
Dynamic programming, database searching, pairwise and multiple alignment, probabilistic methods including HMMs, pattern matching, entropy measures, evolutionary models, and phylogeny.
University
Vrije Universiteit
CWI Professors
Solon Pissis
CWI group
Networks & Optimization
Period
1 Nov 2023 / 28 Feb 2023
Level
BSc

Asymptotic Methods in Queueing Theory

Focus
In this course we will discuss several such techniques and illustrate them on more advanced queueing models such as GPS queues, DPS queues, and bandwidth-sharing networks.
University
Landelijk Netwerk Mathematische Besliskunde
CWI Professors
Bert Zwart
CWI group
Stochastics
Period
11 Sep 2023 / 13 Nov 2023
Level
PhD

Big Data Infrastructures & Technology

Big Data is everywhere, or is it?

Focus
In this course, students will learn how to critically assess Big Data technologies for the analysis of large datasets.
University
UvA
CWI Professors
Hannes Mühleisen
CWI group
Database Architectures
Period
1 Feb 2024 / 1 Apr 2024
Level
MBA

Continuous Optimization

This course aims to provide a concise introduction into the basics of continuous unconstrained, constrained and conic optimization.

University
Mastermath
CWI Professors
Daniel Dadush
CWI group
Networks & Optimization
Period
1 Oct 2023 / 1 Dec 2023
Level
MSc

Evolutionary Algorithms

In this course we consider a specific subfield of Artificial Intelligence: Evolutionary Algorithms (EAs).

Focus
This course covers a spectrum of topics in EAs, ranging from basic concepts to advanced, recent, and state-of-the-art research, and ranging from theoretical to applied.
University
TU Delft
CWI Professors
Peter Bosman
CWI group
EI
Period
1 Feb 2024 / 31 Mar 2023
Level
MSc

Fundamentals of Bioinformatics

Focus
Evolution, genomics, sequence alignment, Blast/PSI-Blast, FAIR data, benchmarking, machine learning, genome assembly, mutation impact prediction, protein stucture analysis, substitution matrices, scientific writing
University
VU
CWI Professors
Solon Pissis
CWI group
Networks & Optimization
Period
1 Sep 2023 / 31 Oct 2023
Level
MSc

Graphical Models and Causality

Focus
This course is an introduction to causal inference. We will study formalisms to express causal relations, frameworks for reasoning about interventions and counterfactuals, and methods for discovering causal relations from data.
University
University of Twente
CWI Professors
Wouter Koolen-Wijkstra
CWI group
Machine Learning
Period
25 Apr 2024 / 15 Jun 2024
Level
MSc

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.

Focus
This Master's level course provides an introduction to modern cryptography, the science of securing communication and computation against different forms of adversarial behaviors
University
Mastermath / UVA
CWI Professors
Lisa Kohl
CWI group
Cryptology
Period
1 Jan 2023 / 1 Feb 2023
Level
MSc