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I had the opposite experience when I met Jan Hesthaven at a GR conference. Turns out it is a German man's name and not a woman, which I found out after professing how much I love the hard 'J' versions book on spectral methods for time dependent problems.

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What is GR? General relativity?

So there are two Jan Hesthavens? One (a man) who works in GR and another (a woman) who works in signal processing or time series analysis?

Sounds like they went around the conference talking about Jan (as in Janet), when other attendants knew this work was by Jan (Yan).

Meredith Belbin another example: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meredith_Belbin

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