Simon Fraser University

Nilima Nigam

Associate Professor

Ph.D. Applied Mathematics · University of Delaware · 1999

tel  778.782.4258
fax  778.782.4947
nigam@math.sfu.ca
office  SC K10509

Personal Website

Selected recent publications (last 5 years)  are listed below. For a complete (and probably more up-to-date) list, please visit http://people.math.sfu.ca/~nigam/NilimaNigam/publications.html

  1. S. Komarova, N. Nigam, M. Ryser, "Cellular Dynamics of Bone Remodeling: a Mathematical Model", SIAM J. Applied Mathematics,Volume 70, Issue 6, pp. 1899-1921 (2010)
  2. T. Binford, D. P. Nicholls, N. Nigam, and T. Warburton, "Exact Non-Reflecting Boundary Conditions on Perturbed Domains and hp-Finite Elements," Journal of Scientific Computing, V. 39, n 2, 265-292 (2009)
  3. S.Komarova, M. Ryser, N.Nigam, "Mathematical Modeling of Spatio-Temporal Dynamics of a Single Bone Multicellular Unit", J. of Bone and Mineral Research, electronic version, 2008:10.1359/jbmr.081229.
  4. S. GEMMRICH AND N. NIGAM, "A boundary integral strategy for the Laplace-Beltrami Dirichlet problem on the sphere S^2", Frontiers of Applied and Computational Mathematics 2008. World Scientific 2008, pp.222-230. 
  5. S. GEMMRICH, J .GOPALAKRISHNAN, AND N. NIGAM, "The Performance of a Multigrid Algorithm for the Acoustic Single Layer Equation", Numerical Mathematics and Advanced Applications, Proceedings of ENUMATH 2007, Graz, Austria. Springer-Verlag 2008. pp 175-183. 
  6. S . GEMMRICH, N. NIGAM AND O. STEINBACH, "Boundary integral equations for the Laplace-Beltrami operator", Mathematics and Computation, a Contemporary View, Proceedings of the 2006 Abel Symposium, Springer 2008. pp. 21-37.  
  7. S . A. MASLOWE, N. Nigam, "The Nonlinear Critical Layer for Kelvin Modes on a Vortex with a Continuous Velocity Profile,"v. 68, n.3, SIAM J. Applied Mathematics, 2008, pp. 825-843. 
  8. S . A. MASLOWE, N. Nigam, "Vortex Kelvin Modes With Nonlinear Critical Layers",Intl. Union of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics Symposium on Hamiltonian Dynamics, Vortex Structures, Turbulence Nagoya Proceedings 2006, pp 163-176. Springer-Verlag 2008.
  9.  T. AKCHURIN, T. AISSIOU, N. KEMENY, E.PROS K, N. NIGAM, S V. KOMAROVA, "Complex dynamics of osteoclast formation and death in long-term cultures", PLoS ONE. 2008 May 7;3(5):e2104. 
  10. S . QAZI , M. CABERLIN AND N.NIGAM, "Mechanism of Psychoactive Drug Action in the Brain: Simulation Modeling of GABAA Receptor Interactions at Non-Equilibrium Conditions", Current Pharmaceutical Design,v. 13(2007) n.14, pp. 1437-1455. 
  11. L. CHINDELEVITCH, D. P. NICHOLLS, N. Nigam, "Error Analysis and Preconditioning for an Enhanced DtN-FE Algorithm for Exterior Scattering Problems," J. Computational and Applied Mathematics, v. 204 (2007), pp. 493-504
  12. G. C. HSIAO, N. NIGAM AND A. - M. SANDIG, "An innovative solution strategy for an elastic transmission problem," Applicable Analysis, v.86 (2007) n.4, pp. 459-482. 
  13.  D. P. NICHOLLS AND N. NIGAM," Error Analysis of an Enhanced DtN–FE Method for Exterior Scattering Problems", Numerische Mathematik, v.105 (2006) n.2, pp. 267-298.
  14. D. JAKOBSON, M. LEVITIN, N. NADIRASHVILI , N. NIGAM AND I . POLTEROVICH, "How large can the first eigenvalue be on a surface of genus two? "International Mathematics Research Notices, v.2005 (2005), n.63, pp.3967-3985. 
  15. D.LEWIS , N. NIGAM AND P. OLVER," Connections on general group actions," Communications in Contemporary Mathematics, v.7 (2005) n.3, pp. 341-374. 
  16. I. ZLOBEC, R.STEELE, N.NIGAM AND C. COMPTON, "A predictive model of rectal tumor response to pre-operative radiotherapy using classification and regression tree (CART) methods" Clinical Cancer Research, v. 11(2005), n. 15, pp. 5440-3.