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".^[3]

Boardman made substantial contributions to his university, leading the School of Sciences. Latterly, he was a Professorial Research Fellow^[4] 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.^[5] He was a Fellow of the SPIE^[6] and co-chair of the SPIE Photonic Metamaterials conference series to be held in San Diego in 2014.^[7] 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.^{[citation needed]} 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.^[8][9] 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/ .^{[citation needed]}

Boardman died on 24 November 2018.^[1]

• A. D. Boardman (editor and contributor on surface plasmons), "Electromagnetic Surface Modes", John Wiley (1982).
• Boardman, A. D.; Marinov, K. (11 April 2006). "Electromagnetic energy in a dispersive metamaterial". Physical Review B. 73 (16): 165110. arXiv:physics/0603199. Bibcode:2006PhRvB..73p5110B. doi:10.1103/physrevb.73.165110. ISSN 1098-0121. S2CID 17410032.
• Boardman, Allan D.; Marinov, Kiril (1 March 2006). "Nonradiating and radiating configurations driven by left-handed metamaterials". Journal of the Optical Society of America B. 23 (3). The Optical Society: 543–552. arXiv:physics/0511113. Bibcode:2006JOSAB..23..543B. doi:10.1364/josab.23.000543. ISSN 0740-3224. S2CID 25334045.
• Boardman, Allan; King, Neil; Rapoport, Yuriy; Velasco, Larry (12 September 2005). "Gyrotropic impact upon negatively refracting surfaces". New Journal of Physics. 7. IOP Publishing: 191. arXiv:cond-mat/0603466. doi:10.1088/1367-2630/7/1/191. ISSN 1367-2630.
• Boardman, A. D.; King, N.; Velasco, L. (2005). "Negative Refraction in Perspective". Electromagnetics. 25 (5). Informa UK Limited: 365–389. arXiv:cond-mat/0508501. Bibcode:2005cond.mat..8501B. doi:10.1080/02726340590957371. ISSN 0272-6343. S2CID 119514654.
• Boardman, A D; Egan, P; Velasco, L; King, N (21 January 2005). "Control of planar nonlinear guided waves and spatial solitons with a left-handed medium". Journal of Optics A: Pure and Applied Optics. 7 (2). IOP Publishing: S57–S67. arXiv:cond-mat/0603159. Bibcode:2005JOptA...7S..57B. doi:10.1088/1464-4258/7/2/008. ISSN 1464-4258. S2CID 119361492.