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.

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.

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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

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Course
Organisation
CWI educators
CWI group
Other educators
  • Christoph Brune (Lecturer)
Period
8 feb 2027 – 28 may 2027
Location
Utrecht University
Level
MSc
ECTS
6.00

E-values and Game Theoretic Statistics

Type
Course
Organisation
CWI educators
CWI group
Period
8 feb 2027 – 28 may 2027
Location
Universiteit van Amsterdam
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Level
MSc
ECTS
8.00

Machine Learning Theory

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In this course we focus on the fundamental ideas, theoretical frameworks, and rich array of mathematical tools and techniques that power machine learning.

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Course
Organisation
CWI educators
CWI group
Other educators
Period
8 feb 2027 – 28 may 2027
Location
Universiteit van Amsterdam
Level
MSc
ECTS
8.00

Multimodal interaction

In this course, we will take a closer look at all kinds of multimodal interaction including the related relevant theoretical background, e.g. about human perception.

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Focus

We will cover the emerging areas of virtual and augmented reality and cover a few other trends (e.g., brain-computer interfaces).

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Course
Organisation
CWI educators
CWI group
Other educators
  • dr. M. Doyran (Lecturer)
  • D. Lu (Lecturer)
  • dr. M. Doyran (Coordinator)
Period
8 feb 2027 – 16 apr 2027
Level
MSc
ECTS
7.50

Algorithmic Mechanism Design

Algorithmic Mechanism Design (AMD) is a research area that lies at the interface of Game Theory and Algorithms and Optimization. On a high level, the goal in AMD is to develop algorithms that induce "socially desirable" outcomes in situations in which several strategic decision makers (or agents) are involved. Examples of the many applications of AMD include auctions, matching markets, voting systems, environmental regulations, fair allocation and division, cost and energy sharing, etc. To achieve the above, we need to design algorithms that (i) compute such desirable outcomes efficiently, and (ii) determine an incentive scheme for the agents such that it is in each agents' self-interest to adhere to the computed solution. Naturally, the development of such algorithms is even more challenging than "traditional" algorithm design.

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Course
Organisation
CWI educators
CWI group
Other educators
  • Prof. Dr. M. Uetz (Lecturer)
Period
1 mar 2027 – 10 may 2027
Location
Utrecht University
Other urls
Level
PhD

Spatial Statistics

Spatial data may come in various forms. Geostatistical data consist of a list of random measurements taken at fixed locations. In point pattern data the locations themselves are random. Examples of the former include weather and air quality data collected at monitoring stations. Optimal sampling is an important issue. Examples of point patterns include catalogues of the epicentres and magnitudes of earthquakes.

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Course
Organisation
CWI educators
CWI group
Other educators
  • dr. F.B. Osei (Examinator)
Period
1 apr 2027 – 1 jul 2027
Level
MSc
ECTS
5.00

Research Seminar on Multimedia Computing and Systems

The topics covered by the course include: multimedia systems, multimedia experiences, and multimedia engagement.

Focus

To become acquainted with the state-of-the-art research and development activities in the field of Multimedia Computing.

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Course
Organisation
CWI educators
CWI group
Other educators
  • M. Mansoury (Lecturer)
Period
19 apr 2027 – 25 jun 2027
Other urls
Level
MSc
ECTS
5.00

Evolutionary Algorithms

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

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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.

Type
Course
Organisation
CWI educators
CWI group
Period
19 apr 2027 – 25 jun 2027
Level
MSc
ECTS
5.00