Quantcast Master’s Series: Dan Stefanica and Jim Gatheral
Baruch College leaders on how they manage the top-ranked quant finance master’s programme
In this, the first episode of the Quantcast Master’s Series – a central component of Risk.net’s Tomorrow’s Quants project – our guests are Dan Stefanica, director of the Master of Financial Engineering programme at Baruch College of the City University of New York, and Jim Gatheral, presidential professor of volatility modelling at the college.
For the past two years, the programme has held top
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