NIT >> News February 7, 2000 Fields-NIT Workshop a Success! Over 100 international research, private sector, and student participants gathered together at the Fields Institute from February 1-4 for a workshop on Data Analysis for Commercial & Industrial Applications organized by the Fields Institute and the Nortel Institute for Telecommunications of the University of Toronto. The aim of the workshop was to bridge leading-edge mathematical techniques with commercial and industrial applications of data analysis and to present problems motivated by commercial and industrial needs. Speakers presented ongoing research and data analysis challenges while sharing mathematical results and ideas on data analysis across the mathematics, statistics, physics, biophysics, computer science, telecommunications, and engineering communities. The various categories of mathematical methodologies for discussion included: stochastic processes and Markov chains, nonlinear dynamics and nonlinear time-series analysis, multi-fractal analysis, data mining, and data and signal processing. MITACS and Nortel Networks sponsored the Workshop. More info: Workshop program and abstracts.