MS thesis defense: Kaif Hilman

Title: The Segal Conjecture for finite groups

Abstract: The Segal conjecture for finite groups was a deep problem in algebraic topology resolved in the 1980s by a concerted effort using various techniques from equivariant stable homotopy theory. We plan to collect the various strands of this story which are scattered in the literature and give a unified presentation of the formulation and proof of the conjecture, culminating in the paper by Gunnar Carlsson.