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Lucia Reining

Lucia Reining is a physics topic covered in the lgStudy science library. This page brings together a partial reference excerpt, illustrations, worked examples, real-world applications and a short study plan, so you can understand Lucia Reining rather than just read about it. In short: Lucia Reining (born 13 September 1961) is a German theoretical spectroscopist who used to work in France as a director of research with the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS), in the Laboratoire des Solides Irradiés at the École Polytechnique. Education and career Reining studied physics at RWTH Aachen University beginning in 1980, with Ivan Egry as a faculty mentor, earning a diploma there in 198…

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Reference excerpt

Lucia Reining (born 13 September 1961) is a German theoretical spectroscopist who used to work in France as a director of research with the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS), in the Laboratoire des Solides Irradiés at the École Polytechnique.

Education and career Reining studied physics at RWTH Aachen University beginning in 1980, with Ivan Egry as a faculty mentor, earning a diploma there in 1985. Reining completed her doctoral studies with Rodolfo Del Sole at the University of Rome Tor Vergata, completing her Ph.D. in 1991. After a Marie-Curie postdoctoral fellowship at the Centre Européen de Calcul Atomique et Moléculaire in Orsay, Reining became a researcher for the CNRS in 1992. She was promoted to director of research in 2002, and to director of research in 2016. Lucia Reining is one of the founding members of the European Theoretical Spectroscopy Facility.

Recognition Reining won the CNRS Silver Medal in 2003. She was elected as a Fellow of the American Physical Society (APS) in 2007, after a nomination from the APS Division of Computational Physics, "for her fundamental contributions to ab initio computation of spectroscopic properties of solids, employing many-electron Green's function and time-dependent density functional approaches". She was the 2020 winner of the Gentner-Kastler Prize of the Société Française de Physique and German Physical Society.

Selected publications Albrecht, Stefan; Reining, Lucia; Del Sole, Rodolfo; Onida, Giovanni (May 1998), "Ab initio calculation of excitonic effects in the optical spectra of semiconductors", Physical Review Letters, 80 (20): 4510–4513, arXiv:cond-mat/9803194, Bibcode:1998PhRvL..80.4510A, doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.80.4510 Onida, Giovanni; Reining, Lucia; Rubio, Angel (June 2002), "Electronic excitations: density-functional versus many-body Green's-function approaches", Reviews of Modern Physics, 74 (2): 601–659, Bibcode:2002RvMP...74..601O, doi:10.1103/revmodphys.74.601, hdl:10261/98472 Martin, Richard M.; Reining, Lucia; Ceperley, David M. (2016), Interacting Electrons: Theory and Computational Approaches, Cambridge University Press, doi:10.1017/cbo9781139050807, ISBN 978-1-139-05080-7

References

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Worked examples

Example 1 — a first encounter with Lucia Reining

Start with the simplest possible case. Write down what Lucia Reining claims or describes in one sentence, then invent the smallest concrete situation in which that sentence is true. In physics, the smallest case is usually a single object, a single equation or a single measurement. Check that every symbol or term in your sentence has a meaning in that case.

Example 2 — changing one variable

Take the situation from Example 1 and change exactly one quantity: double it, halve it, or set it to zero. Predict what should happen to Lucia Reining before you calculate. Comparing your prediction with the result is the fastest way to find out whether you understand the idea or only the words.

Example 3 — an exam-style question

Typical questions about Lucia Reining ask you to (a) state it precisely, (b) apply it to given data, and (c) explain a limitation. Practise writing all three answers in under five minutes; the third part is what separates a full-mark answer from an average one.

Applications of Lucia Reining

In research: Lucia Reining appears in physics research whenever the underlying quantities have to be modelled precisely. Papers usually cite it as a starting assumption and then explore where it breaks down.
In technology and industry: Engineering practice reuses Lucia Reining in design rules, simulations and safety margins. Knowing the idea lets you read a specification sheet and understand why the numbers look the way they do.
In the classroom: Lucia Reining is common in secondary-school and first-year university syllabi. It links to neighbouring topics 1961 births, Fellows of the American Physical Society, German physicists, so understanding it makes those chapters shorter.
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