Advanced Course Spring 2017: Connectomics
Organizer: Sean Hill
Faculty gender ratio: 1 Woman : 6 Men (14%)
Estimated* base rate of females in the field: 27%
*Method of estimation: We searched NIH RePORTER with keyword “connectome” and counted the ratio of women among the unique researchers in pages 1, 3, 6 and 8 of 8 results pages. Double checking with our python script we got a base rate of 28% for this keyword. (Search was originally done in December 2016.)
2017 Computational and Cognitive Neuroscience Summer School
Organizers: Xiao-Jing Wang, Zachary F Mainen, Si Wu, John D. Murray and Eric DeWitt
Invited lecturer gender ratio: 2 Women : 12 Men (14%)
Estimated* base rate of females in the field: 17-20%
*Method of estimation: Previously established base rate of women in computational neuroscience.
Organizers: Hokto Kazama, Taro Toyoizumi, Toshihiko Hosoya, Andrea Benucci and Hitoshi Okamoto
Lecturer gender ratio: 3 Women : 11 Men (21%)
Estimated* base rate of women in the field: 24%
*Method of estimation: previously established base rate of women in neuroscience.
First International Workshop on Symbolic-Neural Learning (SNL-2017)
Organizers: Sadaoki Furui, Tomoko Matsui, David McAllester, Yutaka Sasaki, Koichi Shinoda, Masashi Sugiyama and Jun’ichi Tsujii
Sponsors: Toyota Technological Institute and Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago
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.
5th Neuro Inspired Computational Elements Workshop (NICE 2017)
Sponsor: Semiconductor Research Corporation
Invited speaker gender ratio: 1 Woman : 13 Men (7%)
Estimated* base rate of females in the field: 15%
*Method of estimation: Previously established base rate of women in neurally inspired machine learning.
Data Science Approaches for Neuroscientists
Speaker gender ratio: 0 Women : 4 Men (0%)
Estimated* base rate of females in the field: 17-20%
*Method of estimation: Previously established base rate of women in computational neuroscience.
15th Neural Computation and Psychology Workshop
Organizers: Jay McClelland, Stefan Frank and Daniel Mirman
Sponsors: W. K. & K. W. Estes Fund, Google DeepMind and the Rumelhart Emergent Cognitive Functions Fund
Invited speaker 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.
UT Austin Conference on Learning & Memory
Sponsors: National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke and the NIH National Institute on Aging
Speaker gender ratio (incl. keynote): 3 Women : 10 Men (23%)
Estimated* base rate of females in the field: 33%
*Method of estimation: We searched NIH RePORTER with keyword “(learning OR memory) AND neuro*” and counted the ratio of women among the unique researchers in pages 13, 27, 40 and 54 of 67 results pages.
Pavlovian Society Meeting 2016
Sponsors: Elsevier
Speaker gender ratio: 8 Women : 25 Men (24%)
Estimated* base rate of females in the field: 25%
*Method of estimation: We searched NIH RePORTER with keyword “Pavlovian” and counted the ratio of women among the unique researchers in pages 1, 4, 6 and 7 of 9 results pages.
New technologies to treat neurodisorders: neuroprosthetics
Organizers: Elvira Pirondini, Marco Capogrosso, Silvia Misiti and Giuseppe Zizzo
Invited speaker gender ratio: 1 Woman : 8 Men (11%)
Estimated* base rate of females in the field: 19%
*Method of estimation: Searching NIH RePORTER with keywords “neural” AND “prosthetics” and counting the ratio of women among the unique researchers in pages 2, 4 and 6 of 7 results pages.
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