March 2026: NP-completeness; special speaker!

For March, we have a special speaker: Rodrigo Girão Serrão, travelling all the way to Dayton (through the magic of the internet, that is)

Rodrigo will take us through a beginner-friendly discussion of NP-completeness; one of those terms that computer science types use to terrify the rest of us. We can all benefit from getting past the jargon and learning how to think about these problems.

Rodrigo is creator of mathspp.com. He’s an experienced speaker and tutorial instructor, author of several Python books, and producer of daily Python drops tip newsletter.

Location: Innovation Hub

We meet in the Innovation Hub, a gorgeous new facility that’s part of the renovated Dayton Arcade complex.
Enter through the doors that face the Wright Stop Plaza bus hub.

Street parking is free in the evening. I usually park on Ludlow Street.

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if for any reason coming downtown doesn’t work for you (for instance, you’ve been exposed to COVID, or you’ve converted yourself to purely digital format and now exist as a set of cloud-hosted algorithms), we’ll be online as well!

Join us at 7 PM EDT on the PyFri Discord channel, discord.gg/9SgTh3T, and click on the General voice chat link. You may need to install the Discord desktop app rather than just using the web interface.