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.

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.

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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.

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Course
Organisation
CWI educators
CWI group
Other educators
  • dr. P.A. Zegeling (Lecturer)
Period
1 Jan 2025 – 1 Mar 2025
ECTS
7.50

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
Period
3 Feb 2025 – 19 May 2025
Location
Utrecht University
Level
MSc
ECTS
6.00

Machine Learning Theory

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Focus

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
3 Feb 2025 – 23 May 2025
Level
MSc

Graphical Models and Causality

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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.

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Course
Organisation
CWI educators
CWI group
Period
21 Apr 2025 – 4 Jul 2025
Level
MSc