My name is Jake Saunders. You can contact me via email: JSESaunders1 at sheffield dot ac dot uk.

I am a second year maths PhD student at the University of Sheffield. I am a member of the algebraic topology research group, and my supervisor is Markus Szymik.

My research concerns the problem of describing the $E_\infty$ structure on the unoriented bordism spectrum $MO$. Hence (or otherwise), to determine whether the mod 2 Euler characteristic, which is an additive and multiplicative bordism invariant, lifts to a map of $E_\infty$ ring spectra $MO \to Eh$, for some $E_\infty$ ring spectrum $Eh$.

I plan to supervise a UGRI project this year about homological algebra. The description can be found here, where it is billed as Project 1. If you're interested/have questions, please get in touch!

In 2024, Lewis Combes and I will be running a study group where we figure out how to use Lean, and formalise a bit of maths. You can find more information about this here.

A list of conferences I've attended can be found here.

A list of talks I've given can be found here.

I was previously an MMath student at Durham University. Here is a page with some stuff I did as an undergraduate.