Bernstein Conference 2016

Bernstein Conference 2016

Organizers: Michael Brecht (local scientific organizer), Richard Kempter (program chair)
Funded by: German Federal Ministry of Education and Research, Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, Einstein Center for Neurosciences Berlin
Invited speaker gender ratio: 5 Women : 7 Men (42%)
Estimated* base rate of females in the field: 17-18%

*Method of estimation: Since the conference is advertised as “the largest annual Computational Neuroscience Conference in Europe” we used the base rate in the field of computational neuroscience as calculated from attendance at COSYNE 2016.