Prague College

Stefano is currently the Head of Schools of Business and Computing at the college. He is a senior principal lecturer in both schools where he teaches Finance, Business Ethics, Statistics, Programming and Management Research at undergraduate and postgraduate level. Since 2011, Stefano is a member of the Senior Management Group of Prague College.

Stefano’s research lies at the hedge between philosophy, mathematics and finance. A part of his research focuses on Business Ethics, Corporate Governance and CSR with a special interest on decision making models and ethical decision making. A second area of research focuses on Portfolio Theory, CAPM, algorithmic trading and efficiency of financial markets and the epistemic foundation of classic financial theory. A third area of research has its main focus on behavioural finance and alternative existing theories of modern finance, with particular attention devoted to fractal pricing models in the study of volatility.

In 2008 Stefano founded the Prague College Research Centre, now CRIS (Centre for Research and Interdisciplinary Studies) and he is currently exploring with his staff such diverse topics where finance meets with philosophy and psychology. Stefano is also the chief editor of the academic journal the Bulletin of CRIS and he leads the current MSc programme in International Management at the college.

Stefano holds a PhD in Mathematics (Charles University, Institue of Mathematics of the Academy of Science of Czech Republic, in Prague) and is a Doctor in Philosophy (Amedeo Avogadro University, in Vercelli, Italy). Stefano also holds a professional MA in Science Communication (COREP - Centre for Education and Permanent Research - of the Polytechnic-University of Turin). Stefano was a visiting scholar at Columbia University in New York City and Visiting Fellow at the Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences in Cambridge.

Stefano Cavagnetto's profile:
http://student.praguecollege.cz/StefanoCavagnetto

 

Read an interesting interview with Stefano Cavagnetto on expats.cz, as he speaks about mathematics and philosophy and their application in interdisciplinary projects:

Stefano, many people know you as a lecturer, scholar and dedicated researcher in the areas of mathematics and philosophy. What has led you to study these subjects, and why did you choose to live in Prague?

Philosophy and mathematics have always been my interest and I have been attracted to these fields since I was very young. I decided to develop myself in these areas and combine my deep interest with a professional career. Why Prague? My first visit to Prague was the kind of story you have probably read or heard many times, and it is really nothing out of the ordinary. I first came to Prague as a tourist, a high school student, who was eager to explore Europe. I naturally came with a group of friends and then returned many times as a more mature visitor who fell in love with the art, architecture and magical feeling of Prague... read the whole interview here.

 

 

 

 

 

Join us for an open lecture by Stefano Cavagnetto which illustrates some of the ideas
underpinning work by Prague College staff and students this semester across the disciplines of art and computing.

Prague College Studios | Polska 26
Thursday, January 28
Starts at 6:30 pm

The main aim of this talk is to illustrate how algorithms effectively generate an amazing world of fractals.

Classical Euclidean geometry deals with objects which exist in integer dimensions; fractal geometry works with objects in non-integer dimensions. While Euclidean geometry is a description of lines, curves, ellipses, etc. fractal geometry is described in algorithms, i.e. set of instructions. These set of instructions might produce rough or fragmented geometric shapes that can be split into parts, each of which is (at least approximately) a reduced-size copy of the whole (Mandelbrot, 1982).

The overall process gives rise to an unexpected beauty which can be depicted by beautiful shapes.

 

 

 

The annual Cyberspace conference organized by Masaryk University Journnal of Law and Technology was held in Brno (20 – 21 November 2009). Many topics, from cyber law, psychology, sociology, philosophy of cyberspace and up to cyber crime and cyber security were presented in different sessions. 

Prague College gave a contribution in the Philosophy session with the paper The Conception of Self in Multiple Cyber Worlds (Stefano Cavagnetto and Bruce Gahir) in which many issues about personal identity are discussed and a model based on information theory is proposed. The paper combines some concepts from information theory, Dennett theory of multiple drafts with the concept of liminoid as proposed by Victor Tucker in 1964. 

 

Along with Stefano Cavagnetto and Bruce Gahir of Prague College, speakers taking part in the Philosophy stream included: Alex Carruth - Durham University, David Hill - York University, Raphael Lepuschitz - University of Innsbruck, Hannes Alkin, Tobias Haider, Andreas Kirchner - University of Vienna, Mark Graham - University of Oxford, Herbert Hrachovec - Vienna University of Technology, Charles Ess - University of Aarhus. 

Read more here... and see photos here...

 

 

On May 18th 2009, there will be a seminar relating to the applications of Game Theory to finance and economics. This seminar is part of a series of seminars for BA students of International Business Management and it is a compulsory part of the International Finance course. The seminar will start at 18.00 at the College in classroom 209 and will be held by Stefano Cavagnetto, Head of School of Business and Computing at Prague College.

Abstract: in this talk we will focus on non-cooperative games and their use in finance and economics.  The main aim of the talk will be to show how many concepts, techniques and the language itself of non-cooperative games have become central to these disciplines.

 

 

STRING REWRITING AND PROOF COMPLEXITY, Institute of Computer Science, in Prague, 2007

REVIEW-ESSAY, on SERGIO CREMASCHI, L’ETICA DEL NOVECENTO: Dopo Nietzsche, Carocci Editore, (2005), in Croatian Journal of Philosophy, (2006), VI, 16, pp. 154-157

PROPOSITIONAL PROOF COMPLEXITY AND REWRITING,Charles University in Prague Faculty of Mathematics and Physics 2008

THE CONCEPTION OF THE SELF IN MULTIPLE CYBER WORLDS, International Conference Cyberspace 2009 in Brno

SOME APPLICATIONS OF PROPOSITIONAL LOGIC TO CELLULAR AUTOMATA, Institute of Mathematics, Academy of Sciences of Czech Republic