Leslie Pamela Cook-Ioannidis (born 1945) is an American mathematician, the Unidel Professor of Mathematical Sciences and Professor of Chemical Engineering at the

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. She was the president of the

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(SIAM) for 2015–2016. Her research concerns

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Education and career

Cook earned a bachelor's degree from the

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in 1967, and a master's and a Ph.D. from

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in 1969 and 1971, respectively. Her dissertation, ''The Asymptotic Behavior as

\epsilon\to 0^+

of the Solution to

\epsilon\nabla^2w=\partial w/\partial y

on a Rectangle'', was supervised by Geoffrey S. S. Ludford. After visiting positions at Cornell and the

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, she joined the faculty of the

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in 1973. She moved to Delaware in 1983. 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.

Contributions and recognition

With Julian Cole, she is the author of the book ''Transonic Aerodynamics'' (North-Holland, 1986). She is a

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of the

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and of SIAM.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Cook, Pamela Year of birth missing (living people) 1940s births Living people 20th-century American mathematicians 21st-century American mathematicians University of Rochester alumni Cornell University alumni University of California, Los Angeles faculty University of Delaware faculty Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science Fellows of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics Presidents of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics Place of birth missing (living people) 20th-century American women mathematicians 21st-century American women mathematicians