BANGALORE: The scientists fraternity of Bangalore is in for a treat of three lectures from physicist Alain Aspect whose experiments in quantum mechanics have been landmarks in the field of physics.

He is giving talks at the Indian Institute of Science, Raman Research Institute and the St. Joseph's College here, at the instance of French Embassy in India, which is organising "French Science Today", a series of talks by scientists of repute.

Alain Aspect, a senior researcher at the Laboratoire Charles Fabry de l'Institut d'Optique d'Orsay, is known for his research in the field of quantum optics and atomic physics. "Refined experimentalist" is how N. Mukunda of the Indian Institute of Science describes Prof. Aspect.

Prof. Aspect will deliver a lecture on "The atomic Hanbury-Brown and Twiss effect: yet another strange quantum behaviour" at 3 p.m. on Friday at the Indian Institute of Science; on "Wave particle-duality with a single photon: the delayed choice Gedanken Experiment at last a real experiment" at 10.30 a.m. at the Raman Research Institute; and on "From Einstein intuitions to quantum bits: a new quantum age?", at 2 p.m. at St. Joseph's College.

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