Math prof named journal editor-in-chief

Pamela Cook, professor of mathematical sciences, has been named editor-in-chief of the SIAM Journal of Applied Mathematics. This journal, which is the flagship journal of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics, is considered one of the most selective, prestigious and influential in its field.

Cook joined UD's Department of Mathematical Sciences in 1983, after 10 years on the faculty of the University of California at Los Angeles. At UD, she has served as interim department chairperson in 1991-92 and was chairperson from 1992-2000. She also served as associate dean for planning and research in the College of Arts and Sciences from 2000-01.

She is the author, with J. Cole, of Transonic Aerodynamics, which has been translated into Russian, and served as the editor of Transonic Aerodynamics: Problems in Asymptotic Theory and as coeditor of Mathematics Is for Solving Problems. She twice has been elected to the Council of the Society of Industrial and Applied Mathematics.

Her current research is in transonic aerodynamics (flight near the speed of sound) and the flow of viscoelastic fluids (polymers).

A graduate of the University of Rochester, Cook has a doctorate from Cornell University and was a NATO postdoctoral scholar at the University of Utrecht in the Netherlands. She has been a visiting professor at the California Institute of Technology and at the University of Maryland.