- Dominic Culver, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
- Towards a counter example of the telescope conjecture
- 11/29/2018
- 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM
- C304 Wells Hall
The telescope conjecture is the only remaining Ravenel conjecture to remain unsolved. In this talk, I will give a review of the chromatic perspective on stable homotopy theory and motivate the telescope conjecture. I will then proceed to sketch Mahowald’s proof of the height 1 telescope conjecture for 2-local spectra. Time permitting, I will describe work in progress with Beaudry, Behrens, Bhattacharya, and Xu on using the tmf-resolution of the Bhattacharya-Egger spectrum to find a counter example to the height 2 telescope conjecture.
