CIRRICULUM VITAE

Vo Thanh Liem

EDUCATION

B.S. Saigon University, 1968

Ph.D. University of Utah, 1975

Advisor Professor: T.B. Rushing

PROFESSIONAL POSTIONS

Research Associate, University of Georgia, 1975-1976

Instructor, Louisiana State University, 1976-1979

Visiting Instructor, University of Kentucky, Fall 1978

Assistant Professor, University of Alabama 1979-1981

Associate Professor, University of Alabama, 1981-1986

Professor, University of Alabama, 1986-present

Visiting Institute Advanced Studies, Spring 1989

Visiting scholar, Princeton University, 1990-1991

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Geometric Topology and embedding theory: Infinite Topology, embeddings and shape theory, four-dimensional manifold topology.

PUBLICATIONS IN REFEREED JOURNALS

Certain continua in Sn of the same shape have homeomorphic complements, Trans.	Amer. Math Soc., Vol. 218, (1976), 207-217.

Certain continua in Sn with homeomorphic complements have the same shape, Fund. Math, (1977), 221-228.

Some cellular subsets of the spheres, Pac. J. Math, Vol. 2 (1977), 115-125.

Homotopy characterization of weakly flat knots, Fund. Math, CII.1, (1979), 61-	72.

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Factorizations of free actions of finite groups on compact Q-manifolds, Proc. Amer. Math Soc., Vol. 75, 2 (1979), 334-338.

Infinite products which are homeomorphic to Hilbert space, with D.W. Curtis, Gen. Top. and Its Appl.,10 (1980), 19-25.

A counter example in 12 - manifold theory, Proc. Amer. Math Soc., Vol. 73, 1 (1979), 119-120.

Concordance classes of free actions of compact Lie groups on infinite-dimensional manifolds, Proc. of Georgia Topology Conference, Academic Press, 1979, 621-629.

Homotopy dimension of some orbit spaces, Pac. J. of Math, 92 (1981), 357-363.

An -approximation theorem for Q - manifolds, Topology and Its Appl., 12

(1981), 289-304.

Some results on semi-free actions of finite groups on Hilbert cube manifolds, Top. and Its Applications, 12 (1981), 147-159.

An unknotting theorem in Q - manifolds, Proc. of A.M.S., 82 (1981), 125-132.

Triviality of simple fiber - preserving actions of tori on Hilbert-cube-fiber bundles, Proc. of A.M.S., 87 (1983) 549-554.

On infinite deficiency in R-manifolds, Transactions of A.M.S., Vol. 228 (1985),	295-226.

Manifolds accepting co-dimension-one-sphere-shape decompositions, Topology

and Its	Applications, 21 (1985) 77-86.

Polyhedral shape concordance implying homeomorphic complements, Fund. Math,	Vo. 125, #3 (1985), 217-230.

An -approximation theorem for R-manifolds, Rocky Mountain Journal of Math., 17 (1987), 393-419.

Stable shape concordance implies homeomorphic complements, with G.A. Venema Fund. Math, Vol. 125, (1986) (2), 123-131.

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A local strong UV-property of the homeomorphism groups of R(Q)-manifolds, Proc. of AMS, Vol. 98.1 (1986), 145-149.

On R(Q)-manifold bundles over CW-complexes, Trans. of AMS, Vol. 297, 2 (1986), 563-585.

Some homotopy properties of the homeomorphism groups of R(Q)-manifolds, Proc. A.M.S., Vol. 100, 2 (1987), 169-174.

Concordance of compacta, (with G.A. Venema), Compositio Mathematica, Vol. 75 (1990), 193-201.

Characterization of the complements of knots in the 4-sphere, (with G.A. Venema), Topology and Its Applications, Vol. 42 (1991), 231-245.

Complements of 2-spheres in 4-manifolds, (with G.A. Venema), Topology Hawaii, World Scientific Publishing Co., Singapore (1992), 157-164.

Characterization of knot complements in the 4-sphere: a special case, (with G.A. Venema), Proc. of Sixth Annual Western Geometric Workshop, 65-68.

Neighborhoods of S1-like continua in 4-manifolds, (with G.A. Venema), Mich. J. of Mathematics, Vol. 40 (1993), 3-25.

On the asphericity of knot complements, (with G. A. Venema), Canadian J. of	Mathematics, Vol. 45 (2), 1993, 340-356.

On the characterization of knot complements in the n-sphere, (with G.A. Venema), Fund. Math. 147 (1995), 189-196.

A homotopy equivalence which is not homotopic to a topological embedding, (with Y. Matsumoto and G.A. Venema), Topology and Its Applications 90 (1998) 221-222.

Representing homology classes of 4-manifolds, (with G.A. Venema),Topology and Its Applications, 120(2002), 57-65.

LIST OF INVITED TALKS

Half-hour talk:	Spring Topology Conference, Baton Rouge, 1977.

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20-minute talk:	AMS Meeting, Oklahoma City, April 1981.

One-hour talk:	Banach International Mathematical Center, Warsaw,	Poland, May 1984.

Half-hour talk:	Dedicated to C.E. Burgess’ Birthday, Provo, Utah, 1985.

20-minute talk:	AMS Meeting in Logan, Utah, October 1986.

Half-hour talk:	Spring Topology Conference, Birmingham, March 1987.

20-minute talk:	Spring Topology Conference, Knoxville, TN, March 1989.

Colloquium talk:	Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, Spring 1991.

Colloquium talk:	Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, Spring 1991

ATTENDED MEETINGS

2012 Georgia Topology Conference, May 09 – May 13, 2012

2012 Stanford work shop on Holomorphic Curves and Low Dimensional Topology, July 20 – August 13, 2012

2013 AMS Joint Mathematics Meetings in San Diego, CA, January 9 – January 12, 2013

REFEREE WORK

Referee for Proceedings of AMS

Topology and Its Applications

Transaction of AMS

GRANT

PI of a three-year GAANN grant, P200A100189, funded by the Department of Education (2010-2013)