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.

Introduction scientific computing

This course gives a first orientation on Scientific Computing, using a number of case-studies from different fields. The complete Scientific Computing procedure, from mathematical modelling to visualisation of the numerical solutions (simulation), through discretization, algebraic solution methods and implementation will be covered.

Focus
The focus is on techniques from Numerical analysis. These are applied to the simulation of pattern formation in hydrological models, as well as editing of images from CT-scan data. Both theoretical and practical, software-related, aspects will be covered.
University
Utrecht University
CWI Professors
Tristan van Leeuwen
CWI group
Computational Imaging
Period
30 Jan 2023 / 24 Feb 2023
Level
BSc

Inverse Problems in Imaging

The mathematical reconstruction and processing of images is of fundamental importance in state of the art applications in health and geosciences, e.g. in medical tomography, in high-resolution microscopy or in geophysical inversion.

Focus
This course is about inverse problems in imaging. overs the full chain of solving inverse problems in imaging, namely Problem identification → Modeling and discretization → Analysis → Numerical optimization
University
Mastermath
CWI Professors
Tristan van Leeuwen
CWI group
Computational Imaging
Period
6 Dec 2022 / 1 Feb 2023
Level
MsC/PhD

Laboratory class scientific computing

Laboratory class scientific computing

Focus
Scientific Computing
University
UU
CWI Professors
Adriaan Graas
CWI group
Computational Imaging
Period
1 Jan 2023 / 31 Mar 2023
Level
MSc

Large Scale Data Engineering

This course confronts the students with some data management tasks, where the challenge is that the mere size of this data causes naive solutions, and/or solutions that work only on a single machine, to stop being practical.

Focus
To gain insight into and experience with algorithms and infrastructures for managing big data.
University
VU
CWI Professors
Peter Boncz
CWI group
Database Architectures
Period
1 Sep 2023 / 1 Nov 2023
Level
MSc

Machine Learning Theory

Focus
In this course we focus on the fundamental ideas, theoretical frameworks, and rich array of mathematical tools and techniques that power machine learning.
University
Mastermath
CWI Professors
Wouter Koolen-Wijkstra
CWI group
Machine Learning
Period
9 Feb 2024 / 25 May 2024
Level
MSc

Meaningful (Linked) Data Interaction

A parallel goal of the course is to learn how to find relevant literature, critique the literature from both the content and the writing perspectives.

Focus
A goal of the course is to learn how to visualize information for a user in an effective way.
University
UU
CWI Professors
Lynda Hardman
CWI group
Human Centered Data Analytics
Period
15 Nov 2023 / 4 Feb 2024
Level
MSc

Multi-Agent Systems

We introduce a number of fundamental scientific and engineering concepts that underpin the theoretical study of such multi-agent systems.

Focus
In Multi-agent systems (MAS) one studies collections of interacting, intelligent agents.
University
VU
CWI Professors
Eric Pauwels
CWI group
IAS
Period
1 Oct 2023 / 30 Nov 2023
Level
MSc

Multi-Agent Systems (UU)

This course provides an introduction to the field of multiagent systems.

Focus
The lectures cover the following topics: decision theory, game theory, communication, social choice, mechanism design, auctions.
University
Utrecht University
CWI Professors
Tim Baarslag
CWI group
IAS
Period
30 Oct 2023 / 24 Nov 2023