Pam Cook, Prof. of Mathematics, Associate Dean of Engineering with a secondary appointment in Chemical Engineering, gave the I.M.A. Lighthill Lecture at the British Applied Mathematics Colloquium this April in Nottingham, UK. Her talk was titled "Steady and Transient Flows of Entangled Fluids" This lecture, supported by the I.M.A. (Institute for Mathematics and its Applications) in the UK is given each year at the BAMC in memory of its founding President, Sir James Lighthill. The British Applied Mathematics Colloquium is the premier multidisciplinary annual applied mathematics meeting in the UK attracting over 300 participants each year. Originally founded as the British Theoretical Mechanics Colloquium in 1958 by Sir James Lighthill, the meeting has broadened to cover all aspects of interest to applied researchers." Sir James Lighthill followed Dirac and preceded Hawking as the Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at Cambridge, later becoming Provost of University College London. Lighthill's contributions were to the areas of airfoil theory, supersonic flow, aeroacoutstics and especially kinematic waves.

Article created: April 13, 2009