UCSB Directed Reading Program
The 2023 DRP has concluded!
Check out our mentor profiles for the past year's projects.
Mentors: You can apply now for 2024!
Mentees: More information for 2024 will be available soon.
Check out our mentor profiles for the past year's projects.
Mentors: You can apply now for 2024!
Mentees: More information for 2024 will be available soon.
We are pleased to announce the winners of the 2023 DRP Poster Awards! Three award categories and four deserving posters are honored this year:
People's Choice Award for Best Poster:
Quantum Advantages Over Classical Cryptography - Ponokela DeMarzo and Natalya Rodriguez, mentored by Sanjay Kumar
Mentor's Choice Award for Best Poster:
Mathematics of General Relativity - Connor Lindsay, mentored by Patrick Vecera
Mathematics of General Relativity - Connor Lindsay, mentored by Patrick Vecera
Outstanding Poster Award (tie):
Parameters Estimation of Cox-Ingersoll-Ross - Jiayue Chen, mentored by Jimmie Adriazola
P-colorability: Not Your Typical Knot Invariant - Miao Lei, Kriteen Shrestha, and Cindy Zhao, mentored by Marcos Reyes
Parameters Estimation of Cox-Ingersoll-Ross - Jiayue Chen, mentored by Jimmie Adriazola
P-colorability: Not Your Typical Knot Invariant - Miao Lei, Kriteen Shrestha, and Cindy Zhao, mentored by Marcos Reyes
Congratulations to all of our 2023 Award Recipients!
WHAT IS DRP?
The Directed Reading Program (DRP) is a one-on-one mathematics mentoring program in which graduate students or junior faculty members mentor undergrads in reading and research projects.
A committee of graduate students will pair a graduate student/junior faculty mentor with undergraduate student participants according to their mutual interests. The pairs will then work together during the Winter and Spring quarters. At the end of the program mentees will present on their work.
A committee of graduate students will pair a graduate student/junior faculty mentor with undergraduate student participants according to their mutual interests. The pairs will then work together during the Winter and Spring quarters. At the end of the program mentees will present on their work.
We're proud to support several events throughout the course of the DRP. Below are photos of our Career Panel from early March - look forward to more panels in the future! Check the timeline to stay updated.
The DRP program is sponsored by the DRP Network, UCSB Mathematics Department, the Office of Undergraduate Education and the Center for Science and Engineering Partnerships (CSEP) at UCSB.