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. An overview of all courses given by CWI staff can be found here (pdf)

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
Vrije Universiteit
CWI Professors
Wouter Koolen-Wijkstra
CWI group
Machine Learning
Period
16 Feb 2023 / 30 Apr 2023
Level
BSc/MSc

Mathematical Statistics 2

Focus
The overall aim of the course is to introduce students to four different areas of statistics.
University
Universiteit Leiden
CWI Professors
Peter Grünwald
CWI group
Machine Learning
Period
6 Jan 2023 / 1 Apr 2023
Level
BSc

Mathematics 1 for chemical sciences

Focus
In dit college worden wiskunde-onderwerpen behandeld die terugkomen in latere BSc-scheikundevakken. Aan bod komen onderwerpen als limieten, differentiëren, afgeleides, richtingscoëfficiënten, inverteren van functies, exponentiële functies, logaritmes, ext
University
UvA
CWI Professors
Rudesindo Núñez Queija
CWI group
Stochastics
Period
1 Sep 2023 / 1 Jan 2024
Level
BSc

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
HCDA
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