Allan Boardman Explained
Allan Boardman |
Birth Date: | October/November 1937 |
Birth Place: | Northumberland, England[1] |
Death Date: | November 24, 2018; aged 81 |
Alma Mater: | Durham University |
Occupation: | Physicist |
Allan Dawson Boardman 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".[2]
Boardman made substantial contributions to his university, leading the School of Sciences. Latterly, he was a Professorial Research Fellow[3] 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.[4] He was a Fellow of the SPIE[5] and co-chair of the SPIE Photonic Metamaterials conference series to be held in San Diego in 2014.[6] 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. 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.[7] [8] 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/ .
Boardman died on 24 November 2018.[9]
Selected publications
- A. D. Boardman (editor and contributor on surface plasmons), "Electromagnetic Surface Modes", John Wiley (1982).
- Boardman . A. D. . Marinov . K. . Electromagnetic energy in a dispersive metamaterial . Physical Review B . 73 . 16 . 2006-04-11 . 1098-0121 . 10.1103/physrevb.73.165110 . 165110. physics/0603199. 2006PhRvB..73p5110B . 17410032 .
- Boardman . Allan D. . Marinov . Kiril . Nonradiating and radiating configurations driven by left-handed metamaterials . Journal of the Optical Society of America B . The Optical Society . 23 . 3 . 2006-03-01 . 0740-3224 . 10.1364/josab.23.000543 . 543–552. physics/0511113. 2006JOSAB..23..543B . 25334045 .
- Boardman . Allan . King . Neil . Rapoport . Yuriy . Velasco . Larry . Gyrotropic impact upon negatively refracting surfaces . New Journal of Physics . IOP Publishing . 7 . 2005-09-12 . 1367-2630 . 10.1088/1367-2630/7/1/191 . 191. free. cond-mat/0603466.
- Boardman . A. D. . King . N. . Velasco . L. . Negative Refraction in Perspective . Electromagnetics . Informa UK Limited . 25 . 5 . 2005 . 0272-6343 . 10.1080/02726340590957371 . 365–389. cond-mat/0508501. 2005cond.mat..8501B . 119514654 .
- Boardman . A D . Egan . P . Velasco . L . King . N . Control of planar nonlinear guided waves and spatial solitons with a left-handed medium . Journal of Optics A: Pure and Applied Optics . IOP Publishing . 7 . 2 . 2005-01-21 . 1464-4258 . 10.1088/1464-4258/7/2/008 . S57–S67. cond-mat/0603159. 2005JOptA...7S..57B . 119361492 .
External links
Notes and References
- https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QVQX-HKRZ England and Wales Birth Registration Index, 1837-2008; Northumberland Central, Northumberland, England: Oct-Nov-Dec, 1937
- Web site: 2006 Fellows - Awards and Grants. Optical Society of America. August 11, 2014.
- Web site: Allan Boardman School of Computing, Science & Engineering University of Salford, Manchester . www.salford.ac.uk . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20151027043018/http://www.salford.ac.uk/computing-science-engineering/cse-academics/allan-boardman . 2015-10-27.
- Web site: First Announcement and Call for Papers. Photon10. August 11, 2014. https://web.archive.org/web/20140812210841/http://photon10.iopconfs.org/file_38799.pdf. August 12, 2014. dead.
- http://spie.org/x38.xml Complete list of SPIE fellows
- http://spie.org/OPN/conferencedetails/plasmonics-metallic-nanostructures Plasmonics: Metallic Nanostructures and Their Optical Properties XII conference details
- Web site: Special Sessions. 3rd International Conference on Metamaterials, Photonic Crystals and Plasmonics. August 11, 2014. https://web.archive.org/web/20131002183303/http://metaconferences.org/ocs/index.php/META/index/pages/view/special-sessions. 2013-10-02. dead.
- Web site: Parisian lecture in honour of Salford physicist. SalfordOnline. August 11, 2014. https://web.archive.org/web/20140812203954/http://www.salfordonline.com/educationnews_page/35453-parisian_lecture_in_honour_of_salford_physicist.html. 2014-08-12. dead.
- Web site: In Memoriam: Allan Boardman.