Allan Boardman
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Allan Dawson Boardman (1937 – 24 November 2018) was 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 was 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]
Boardman made substantial contributions to his university, leading the School of Sciences. Latterly, he was a Professorial Research Fellow[2] at the University of Salford. He held a Doctor of Science degree from the University of Durham. He was 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 was 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 had also organized other conferences, including being a director of a number of pivotal NATO Advanced Study Institutes.
He was the chair of the Optics and Photonics Division of the UK Institute of Physics and the vice-president of the United Kingdom Consortium for Optics and Photonics (UKCPO). He had served as a board member of the Quantum Electronics and Optics Division of the European Physical Society.Script error: No such module "Unsubst". He was 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 presented nearly 300 conference papers and had been editor for several books, such as 'Soliton-driven Photonics' https://www.amazon.com/Soliton-driven-Photonics-Nato-Science-II/dp/0792371313/ .Script error: No such module "Unsubst".
Boardman died on 24 November 2018, at the age of 81.[8] He was survived by his three children and seven grandhcildren.[8]
Selected publications
- A. D. Boardman (editor and contributor on surface plasmons), "Electromagnetic Surface Modes", John Wiley (1982).
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External links
- Physics Department at the University of Salford.
- Faculty page, University of Salford
- Journal of the Optical Society of America B: Editorial board
- In memory of Professor Allan Boardman University of Salford news item.
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- British physicists
- Academics of the University of Salford
- Fellows of the Institute of Physics
- Fellows of the Institute of Mathematics and its Applications
- 1937 births
- 2018 deaths
- Alumni of King's College, Newcastle
- Scientists from Northumberland
- Metamaterials scientists
- British optical physicists