The Directed Reading Program is a new RTG program designed to pair undergraduate math students with graduate students and/or junior faculty members in order to undertake independent study projects. Undergraduate students may apply for a DRP and, if accepted, will be assigned an appropriate mentor.
Projects must be approved by the DRP committee. These can be based on reading through a book or an article, but projects are not limited to such things. The projects from a similar program at UChicago can be found here and here.
Requirements: The DRP student is required to have an hour-long weekly meeting with his or her mentor to discuss progress towards the goal of the project. Approximately four hours of independent work by the student is expected between meetings. At the end of the quarter, the group of DRP participants will meet, and each DRP student will give a 10-20 minute presentation on the quarter's work.
Qualifications: Any sophomore, junior, or senior is eligible to apply if he or she has a strong background in mathematics, including at least the completion of a yearlong calculus sequence. (First-years and others with unusual background will be considered on a case-by-case basis.) There is a selection of projects with no prerequisite.
Please contact drp@math.utexas.edu for more information. Applications are no longer being accepted for Spring 2013, but watch this space for information about Fall 2013 apllications.