New Directions in Motor Control Workshop
Organizers: David Hofmann, Sam Sober and Simon Sponberg
Sponsors: see here
Total (incl. keynote) speaker gender ratio: 4 women : 11 men (27%)
Keynote speaker gender ratio: 3 women : 4 men (43%)
Estimated* base rate of females in the field: 29%
*Method of estimation: We searched NIH RePORTER with keyword “motor control” and then counted the ratio of women among the unique researchers in all 14 pages of results using our python script.
2017 Berkeley Summer Course In Mining And Modeling Of Neuroscience Data
Organizers: Fritz Sommer and Jeff Teeters
Instructor gender ratio: 1 woman : 5 men (17%)
Estimated* base rate of females in the field: 17-20%
*Method of estimation: Previously established base rate of women in computational neuroscience.
Organizers: Adam Sanborn, Gordon Brown, James Adelman (MathPsych co-chairs) and Marieke van Vugt, Adrian Banks, Bill Kennedy (ICCM co-chairs)
Sponsor: Warwick Behavioural Science
Keynote speaker gender ratio: 0 women : 3 men (0%)
Estimated* base rate of females in the field: 17-20%
*Method of estimation: Previously established base rate of women in computational neuroscience.
Summer School in Systems Medicine: Systems Genetics of Neurodegeneration
Organizers: Rupert Overall, Robert Williams, Gerd Kempermann and Rudi Balling
Speaker gender ratio: 1 woman : 6 men (14%)
Estimated* base rate of females in the field: 23.6%
*Method of estimation: ACGT blog’s estimate of senior researchers in genomics and/or bioinformatics
Gordon Research Conference on Eye Movements 2017
Organizers: Marc A. Sommer and Douglas Crawford (Chairs) and Miriam Spering and Jeffrey D. Schall (Vice Chairs)
Speaker gender ratio (incl. keynote): 10 women : 24 men (29%)
Keynote speaker gender ratio: 1 woman : 1 man (50%)
Estimated* base rate of females in the field: 32%
*Method of estimation: We searched NIH RePORTER with gaze OR saccade OR (eye movement) and then counted the ratio of women among the unique researchers in all 14 pages of results using our python script.
Twelfth International Workshop on Neural-Symbolic Learning and Reasoning (NeSy’17)
Organizers: Tarek R. Besold, Artur d’Avila Garcez and Isaac Noble
Keynote speaker gender ratio: 0 Women : 4 Men (0%)
Estimated* base rate of females in the field: 15%
*Method of estimation: Previously established base rate of women in neurally inspired machine learning.
International Conference on Vision in the Real World
Organizer: Laurence Harris
Speaker gender ratio: 4 women : 15 men (21%)
Estimated* base rate of females in the field: 30%
*Method of estimation: We searched NIH RePORTER with keyword vision science and then counted the ratio of women among the unique researchers in all 54 pages using our python script.
3rd cuttingEEG Symposium
Total speaker gender ratio (plenary + workshops): 6 women : 15 men (29%)
Plenary speaker gender ratio: 3 women : 9 men (25%)
Estimated* base rate of females in the field: 30%
*Method of estimation: We searched NIH RePORTER with keyword EEG OR Electroencephalography and then counted the ratio of women among the unique researchers in all 32 pages using our python script.
Winter Conference On Neural Plasticity
Organizers: Ted Petit and Janelle LeBoutillier
Speaker gender ratio: 15 women : 23 men (39%)
Estimated* base rate of females in the field: 45%
*Method of estimation: We searched NIH RePORTER with keyword neural plasticity and counted the number of women among unique PIs on pages 2, 29, 57, 81 and 82 of 82 results pages.
Brains, Minds and Machines Summer Course 2017
Organizers: Gabriel Kreiman and Tomaso Poggio
Invited speaker gender ratio: 4 Women : 22 Men (15%)
Estimated* base rate of females in the field: 15%
*Method of estimation: Previously established base rate of women in neurally inspired machine learning based on registration for NIPS 2016.
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