April 2026: Science, Math, and Project Hail Mary

Project Hail Mary is an unusually science-based science fiction story - especially the book. Let’s take the film’s success as an excuse to dig into some tools for working with science and math in Python and see if we can work out some problems that the book itself suggests.

Math in LaTeX and Jupyter
pint for units
sympy - symbolic math library
Possibly more?

This will be a lightly prepared meeting; there will no doubt be a lot of live experimentation. Bring any experience you have and a readiness to help question and experiment!

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.

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.