Prague College

Stefano has doctorates in both Mathematics and Philosophy. He earned his degrees from Charles University, the Institute of Mathematics of the Academy of Sciences and the Amedeo Avogadro University, in Vercelli, Italy respectively. His MA in Science of Communication was completed at 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 the Isaac Newton Institute in Cambridge.

He founded the Prague College Research Centre in 2008 and is currently exploring with his staff such diverse topics as the history of programming languages, exploring links between art and mathematics in cooperation with the design school, and looking at game theory and its application to philosophy and business management.

Stefano helps to ensure that the research activities of students and staff, and especially the Bachelors and Masters dissertations, are intrinsically connected to the our key areas of inquiry in Business, IT and Art & Design.

His main academic interests are related to mathematics, philosophy, physics and 
their history and application across disciplines.

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

 

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

 

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.