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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 Professorial Research Fellow 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. 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.
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. He has presented nearly 300 conference papers and has been editor for several books, such as 'Soliton-driven Photonics' https://www.amazon.com/Soliton-driven-Photonics-Nato-Science-II/dp/0792371313/ .