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About Cronin B. Vining

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Cronin Beals Vining
cvining2009@cvining.com
http://cvining.com/

Born: 1957  Baltimore, Maryland USA


Below is a link to my chess games.  I played tournament chess actively from 1973-1990 reaching a USCF rating of the low 2128s.

Cronin Vining Chess Rating

The file below contains 347 of my games, about 250 of which were in rated tournaments.


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Conference Organizing and Advisory Committees

  1. IX International Conference on Thermoelectrics (USA), Pasadena, California, March 19-21, 1990.
  2. Modern Perspectives on Thermoelectrics and Related Materials, Materials Research Society Symposium, Anaheim, California, May 1-2, 1991.
  3. XI International Conference on Thermoelectrics, Arlington, Texas, October 7-9, 1992.
  4. XII International Conference on Thermoelectrics, Yokohama, Japan, November 9-11, 1993.
  5. XIII International Conference on…

Honors, Awards and Society Activities

2007                        Doctor Honoris Causa, Odessa State Academy of Refrigeration, Odessa, Ukraine

1997                        Elected Full Member of the International Academy of Refrigeration, Section of Thermoelectric Cooling and Materials, St. Petersburg, Russia (the first…


Education

1983:                       Postdoctoral Fellow, Ames Laboratory‑US Department of Energy, Ames, Iowa.

                                Acting group leader for a group of five graduate students and one technician. 

1983:       …


Professional Positions

1995-present              President and founder, ZT Services

Information and consulting services to the energy conversion industry.  Clients include Global 500 companies (Honda, Whirlpool), venture capitalists (Carl Berg, Dawson Ventures, Kleiner Perkins Caufield and Byers), thermoelectric manufacturing firms (Marlow, Melcor, Tellurex), federal agencies (Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, Ames Laboratory USDoE, NASA/Glenn, NASA/JPL, NASA/HQ), and…