Orlando, FL, Aug. 25, 2015 — Dr. Ellen Townes-Anderson, one of the four daughters of laser pioneer Charles Townes, will be a featured speaker at the Laser Institute of America’s 34th International Congress on Applications of Lasers & Electro-Optics (ICALEO®) in Atlanta, Georgia on Oct. 19, 2015.
Townes-Anderson is a professor in the Department of Neurology and Neurosciences at Rutgers New Jersey Medical School in Newark, N.J. — about 20 miles away from the Bell Labs facility where her father and Arthur Schawlow filed for their maser patent in 1958. Her current work involves using laser “tweezers” to grab neurons for study by placing them on electrodes.