Pamela Cook
{{Short description|American mathematician}}
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| birth_name = Leslie Pamela Cook
| birth_date = {{abbr|c.|circa}} {{birth year and age|1945}}
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| nationality = American
| fields = Mathematics
| workplaces = University of Delaware
| alma_mater = University of Rochester
Cornell University
| thesis_title = The Asymptotic Behavior as of the Solution to on a Rectangle
| thesis_url = https://newcatalog.library.cornell.edu/catalog/435370
| thesis_year = 1971
| doctoral_advisor = Geoffrey S. S. Ludford
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Leslie Pamela Cook-Ioannidis (born {{abbr|c.|circa}} 1945) is an American mathematician, the Unidel Professor of Mathematical Sciences and Professor of Chemical Engineering at the University of Delaware.{{r|unidel}} She was the president of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) for 2015–2016.{{r|sipres}} Her research concerns fluid dynamics.{{r|unidel}}
Education and career
Cook earned a bachelor's degree from the University of Rochester in 1967, and a master's and a Ph.D. from Cornell University in 1969 and 1971, respectively.{{r|home}}
Her dissertation, The Asymptotic Behavior as of the Solution to on a Rectangle, was supervised by Geoffrey S. S. Ludford.{{r|mgp}}
After visiting positions at Cornell and the California Institute of Technology, she joined the faculty of the University of California, Los Angeles in 1973. She moved to Delaware in 1983.{{r|pexp}}
At the University of Delaware, she was chair of the Department of Mathematical Sciences for nine years before becoming associate dean of engineering. She also served as chair of the university's Commission on the Status of Women.{{r|unidel}}
Contributions and recognition
With Julian Cole, she is the author of the book Transonic Aerodynamics (North-Holland, 1986).{{r|hafez|cheng}}
She is a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and of SIAM.{{r|unidel}}
References
{{Reflist|refs=
| last = Cheng | first = H. K.
| date = June 1989
| doi = 10.1137/1031070
| issue = 2
| journal = SIAM Review
| jstor = 2030446
| pages = 336–338
| title = Transonic Aerodynamics (J. D. Cole and L. P. Cook)
| volume = 31}}
| last = Hafez | first = M.
| date = February 1988
| doi = 10.2514/3.48760
| issue = 2
| journal = AIAA Journal
| pages = 250–251
| title = Book Review: Transonic Aerodynamics by J.D. Cole and L.P. Cook
| volume = 26| bibcode = 1988AIAAJ..26..250H
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External links
- {{Google Scholar id|aB4MQmUAAAAJ}}
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