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 UK. 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
- ↑ "2006 Fellows - Awards and Grants". Optical Society of America. Retrieved August 11, 2014.
- ↑ http://www.salford.ac.uk/computing-science-engineering/cse-academics/allan-boardman
- ↑ "First Announcement and Call for Papers" (PDF). Photon10. Retrieved August 11, 2014.
- ↑ Complete list of SPIE fellows
- ↑ Plasmonics: Metallic Nanostructures and Their Optical Properties XII conference details
- ↑ "Special Sessions". 3rd International Conference on Metamaterials, Photonic Crystals and Plasmonics. Retrieved August 11, 2014.
- ↑ "Parisian lecture in honour of Salford physicist". SalfordOnline. Retrieved August 11, 2014.
External links
- Physics Department at the University of Salford.
- Faculty page, University of Salford
- Journal of the Optical Society of America B: Editorial board