In October 2015 my time training mathematics teachers at a French high school in Port Vila, Vanuatu, was coming to an end. The principal invited me to share kava, a traditional drink in the country.
This month, Los Alamos Director's postdoc (and former APPM PhD student) Daniel Messenger, Applied Mathematics graduate student April Tran, and Professors Vanja Dukic and David Bortz had their ...