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

I am a fourth 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.

I'm thinking about highly structured ring spectra of characteristic 2. In particular, I'm attempting to give a description of the $E_n$ structure on the unoriented bordism spectrum $MO$ which arises from its description as the Thom spectrum of a map $BO \to BGL_1 \mathbb{S}$ of infinite loop spaces. As an application, I'd like to know whether the mod 2 Euler characteristic, which is an additive and multiplicative bordism invariant, lifts to a map of $E_n$ ring spectra $MO \to Eh$, for some $E_n$ ring spectrum $Eh$.

There are a number of other problems that I'm interested in, but not necessarily actively working on. You can find them 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.

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