Nilima Nigam | PIMS - Pacific Institute for the Mathematical Sciences

Professor of Mathematics, Simon Fraser University

Nilima Nigam is a Professor of Mathematics at Simon Fraser University. She received her Ph.D. in applied mathematics from the University of Delaware in 1999. Her research interests are in the areas of PDE and numerical analysis, with applications in computational electromagnetics and micromagnetics. Specifically, she works on the development and analysis of numerical methods for exterior scattering problems, including FEM and integral equation methods. She is also interested in the use of computational techniques in material science and biology.

Skeletal muscle is composed of cells collectively referred to as fibers, which themselves contain contractile proteins arranged longtitudinally into sarcomeres. These latter respond to signals from the nervous system, and contract; unlike cardiac...

Steklov eigenproblems and their variants (where the spectral parameter appears in the boundary condition) arise in a range of useful applications. For instance, understanding some properties of the mixed Steklov-Neumann eigenfunctions tells us why...

In this talk, we quickly review the physiological process of bone remodeling and some key characteristics of the process at the cellular level. We then construct a mathematical model which accounts for some of the observed features. We describe the...

The response of the muscle-tissue unit (MTU) to activation and applied forces is affected by the architectural details as well as the material properties of this nearly-incompressible tissue. We will describe the (highly nonlinear) elastic equations...

In this talk we introduce an unusual eigenvalue problem that arises in fluid-structure interaction problems: the Jones eigenmode problem, described first by D.S. Jones in the eighties.The Jones eigenvalue problem was stated in the context of fluid...