Emory Math Directed Reading Program

The DRP website is now hosted by Shilpi Mandal. Please follow the link for current information.

What is the DRP? Emory's directed reading program (DRP) pairs motivated undergraduates with graduate students to learn a topic together. It began during the Covid-19 pandemic in Spring 2021, with two DRP groups meeting virtually on Zoom. Since then the program has grown a lot; we have seen greater student and mentor participation, students now earn course credit, and the semester culminates with an exciting day of presenatations.

If you are interested in getting involved in Emory's DRP, please see the link above. If you are a graduate student looking to start a DRP at your university, I would be happy to share some of my experiences. I also recommend you seek out other resources, e.g. the DRP Network.

Past DRP topics (as of Spring 2023)

Spring 2023

• Analysis on manifolds
  • Student: Max Yang
  • Mentor: Ylli Andoni
• Category Theory
  • Student: Sumedh Kanolkar
  • Mentor: Rohan Nair
• Clutch hitting
  • Student: Aileen He
  • Mentor: Christopher Keyes
• Computational algebraic geometry
  • Student: Ian Hogben
  • Mentor: Andrew Kobin
• Computational number theory
  • Student: Krish Surana
  • Mentor: Alexis Newton
• Convex geometry
  • Student: Judy Hao
  • Mentor: Alex Dunbar
• Elementary number theory
  • Student: Leo Mokriski
  • Mentor: Jasmine Camero
• Linear algebra for data science
  • Student: Julia Hu
  • Mentor: Ben Yellin
• Model theory
  • Student: Sasha Ustilovsky
  • Mentor: Sean Longbrake
• Stockwell transform
  • Student: Yasasvi Josyula
  • Mentor: Mahmoud Zeydabadi

Fall 2022

• Computational number theory
  • Student: Zachariah Dawood
  • Mentor: Alexis Newton
• Fourier analysis
  • Student: Jared Darrow
  • Mentor: Guangqiu Liang
• Manifolds
  • Student: Matthew Ortega
  • Mentor: Ylli Andoni
• Concrete algebra
  • Student: Jafer Hasnain
  • Mentor: Alex Dunbar
• Set theory
  • Student: Harper Wang
  • Mentor: Shilpi Mandal

Spring 2022

• Commutative algebra
  • Student: Hayden Truong
  • Mentor: Ariella Lee
• Computational algebra
  • Students: Cecilia Garcia, Siwei Xu
  • Mentor: Alex Dunbar
• Math for computer graphics
  • Student: Zoe Ji
  • Mentor: Abbey Julian
• Number theory
  • Student: Meg Ruder
  • Mentor: Shilpi Mandal
• Numerical methods and cryptography
  • Student: Catherine Baker
  • Mentor: Riti Bahl
• PDE-constrained optimization
  • Student: Judy Hao
  • Mentor: Ben Yellin
• Percolation theory
  • Student: Michael Liu
  • Mentor: Alexander Clifton
• Sabermetrics
  • Student: Ezra Arovas
  • Mentor: Christopher Keyes

Fall 2021 (course descriptions)

• Algebraic number theory, with Shilpi Mandal
• Computational algebra, with Alex Dunbar
• Elliptic curves, with Christopher Keyes
• From ODEs to PDEs, with Irving Martinez
• Introduction to commutative algebra, with Ariella Lee
• Percolation theory, with Alexander Clifton
• Set theory, with Rohan Nair

Spring 2021 (course descriptions)

• p-adic numbers, with Christopher Keyes
• The circle method, with Alexander Clifton