1. 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.
11 Facts About Allan Boardman
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Allan Boardman was a theorist and numerical analyst in these areas, especially magneto-optics and metamaterials.
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Allan Boardman held a Doctor of Science degree from the University of Durham.
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Allan Boardman was a Fellow of the UK Institute of Physics and a Fellow of the UK Institute of Mathematics and its Applications.
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Allan Boardman was the conference chair for the major UK photonics meeting called Photon10.
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Allan Boardman was a Fellow of the SPIE and co-chair of the SPIE Photonic Metamaterials conference series to be held in San Diego in 2014.
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Allan Boardman had organized other conferences, including being a director of a number of pivotal NATO Advanced Study Institutes.
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Allan Boardman 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.
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Allan Boardman had served as a board member of the Quantum Electronics and Optics Division of the European Physical Society.
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Allan Boardman was the UK voice on the new European strategy program called OPERA [Optics and Photonics in the European Research Area] 2015.
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Allan Boardman was honoured with a special session in his name at the 3rd International Conference on Metamaterials, Photonic Crystals and Plasmonics in Paris in 2012.