Allan Boardman

Allan Boardman.

Allan Dawson Boardman is a British physicist, known for his work on surface plasmons and guided wave optics, especially nonlinear waves, solitons, magneto-optics and negative refracting metamaterials. He is a theorist and numerical analyst in these areas, especially magneto-optics and metamaterials. In 2006 he was made a fellow of the Optical Society of America for his contributions in these fields and for "exemplary leadership and service to the optics community".^[1]

Allan Boardman is Professorial Research Fellow^[2] at the University of Salford and holds a Doctor of Science degree from the University of Durham. He is a Fellow of the UK Institute of Physics and a Fellow of the UK Institute of Mathematics and its Applications. He was the conference chair for the major UK photonics meeting called Photon10.^[3] He is a Fellow of the SPIE^[4] and co-chair of the SPIE Photonic Metamaterials conference series to be held in San Diego in 2014.^[5] He has also organized other conferences, including being a Director of a number of pivotal NATO Advanced Study Institutes.

He is the chair of the Optics and Photonics Division of the UK Institute of Physics and is Vice-President of the United Kingdom Consortium for Optics and Photonics (UKCPO). He has served as a Board member of the Quantum Electronics and Optics Division of the European Physical Society. He is the UK voice on the new European strategy program called OPERA [Optics and Photonics in the European Research Area] 2015.

Boardman was honoured with a special session in his name at the 3rd International Conference on Metamaterials, Photonic Crystals and Plasmonics (Meta '12) in Paris in 2012.^[6][7] He has presented nearly 300 conference papers and has been editor for several books, such as 'Soliton-driven Photonics' http://www.amazon.com/Soliton-driven-Photonics-Nato-Science-II/dp/0792371313/ .

Selected publications

• A. D. Boardman (editor and contributor on surface plasmons), "Electromagnetic Surface Modes", John Wiley (1982).
• A. D. Boardman and K. Marinov, “Electromagnetic energy in a dispersive metamaterial”, Phys. Rev. B 73, 165110 (2006).
• A. D. Boardman and K. Marinov, “Nonradiating and radiating configurations driven by left-handed metamaterials”, J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 23(3) 543–552 (2006).
• A. D. Boardman, N. King, Y. Rapoport, and L. Velasco, “Gyrotropic impact upon negatively refracting surfaces”, New J. Phys. 7, 191 (2005).
• A. D. Boardman, N. King, and L. Velasco, “Negative refraction in perspective”, Electromagnetics 25, 1 (2005).
• A. D. Boardman, P. Egan, L. Velasco, and N. King, “Control of planar nonlinear guided waves and spatial solitons with a left-handed medium”, J. Opt. A: Pure Appl. Optics 6, S1 (2004).

References

External links

• Physics Department at the University of Salford.
• Faculty page, University of Salford
• Journal of the Optical Society of America B: Editorial board