Allan Boardman

Who is 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".

Allan Boardman is Professor of Applied Physics 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. He is a Fellow of the SPIE and co-chair of the SPIE Photonic Metamaterials conference series to be held in San Diego in 2014. He has also organized other conferences, including being a Director of a number of pivotal NATO Advanced Study Institutes.