Curiosity, Creativity, and Complexity
Organizer: Jacqueline Gottlieb (Chair)
Invited speaker gender ratio: 9 Women: 13 Men (41%)
Estimated base rate of women in the field: 37-52%*
BWN rating: 2
*Method of estimation: Previously established base rate of women in cognitive neuroscience.
3rd HBP Curriculum Workshop Series – Final Workshop on Measuring and Modelling Brain States
Organizers: Sylvia Aßlaber, Judith Kathrein & Alois Saria
Invited speaker gender ratio: 1 Woman: 6 Men (14%)
Estimated* base rate of women in the field: 17-18%
BWN rating: 2
*Method of estimation: previously established base rate of women in computational neuroscience.
10th IEEE International Conference on Development and Learning (ICDL 2020)
Organizers: Nicolás Navarro-Guerrero & María-José Escobar (Program Chairs)
Speaker gender ratio: 2 Women: 4 Men (33%)
Estimated base rate of women in the field: 45%*
*Method of estimation: We searched NIH RePORTER with keywords cognitive AND developmental AND learning, and then counted the ratio of women among the unique researchers in all 76 pages of results using our python script. We left 99 names unclassified.
9th IAPR Workshop on Neural Networks in Pattern Recognition (ANNPR 2020)
Organizers: Frank-Peter Schilling & Thilo Stadelmann
Sponsors: ZHAW Zurich University of Applied Sciences, Swiss Alliance for Data-Intensive Services, International Association for Pattern Recognition (IAPR), Springer
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.
Organizers: Markus Werkle-Bergner, Ulman Lindenberger & Imke Kruse
Speaker gender ratio: 3 Women: 7 Men (30%)
Estimated base rate of women in the field: 44%*
*Method of estimation: We searched NIH RePORTER with keywords lifespan AND developmental within NIA (National Institute on Aging) and NICHD (National Institute on Child Health and Human Development) agencies, and then counted the ratio of women among the unique researchers in all 26 pages of results using our python script. We left 14 names unclassified.
Computational Approaches to Memory and Plasticity (CAMP 2020)
Organizers: Arvind Kumar, Rishikesh Narayanan & Upinder Bhalla
Sponsor: Simons Foundation
Speaker gender ratio: 1 Woman : 11 Men (8%)
Estimated* base rate of women in the field: 17-20%
*Method of estimation: Previously established base rate of women in computational neuroscience.
3rd Advanced Course on Data Science & Machine Learning (ACDL 2020)
Organizers: Davide Bacciu, Roman Belavkin, Sergiy Butenko, Alberto Castellini and more (see here)
Lecturer gender ratio: 1 Woman: 9 Men (10%)
Estimated* base rate of women in the field: 15%
*Method of estimation: Previously established base rate of women in neurally inspired machine learning.
NYC Neuromodulation 2020 Online Conference
Session: Updates on Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation (tDCS): Applications and Mechanisms
Organizer: Marom Bikson (Session Chair)
Speaker gender ratio: 2 Women: 5 Men (29%)
Estimated* base rate of women in the field: 33%
*Method of estimation: We searched NIH RePORTER with keyword tDCS OR transcranial direct current stimulation and then counted the ratio of women among the unique researchers in all 4 pages of results using our python script. We left 2 names unclassified. The base rate is estimated to be 33%.
Conference on Mathematical Theory of Deep Neural Networks (DeepMath 2019)
Organizers: Mikio Aoi, Joan Bruna, Adam Charles, Ahmed El Hady, Stephen Keeley, Sebastian Musslick, Andrew Saxe, Michael Shvartsman Sponsors: Samsung, Simons Foundation, Princeton Neuroscience Institute, Facebook Reality Labs, Siemens, Intel, Google Deepmind
Speaker gender ratio: 1 Woman: 8 Men (11%)
Organizer gender ratio: 0 Woman: 8 Men (0%)
Estimated* base rate of women in the field: 15%
*Method of estimation: Previously established base rate of women in neurally inspired machine learning.
2020 International Society for Research on Impulsivity (InSRI) Virtual Meeting
Organizer: Sarah Yip, Anna Konova, Marc Potenza, Gerry Moeller, Catharine Winstanley and Alan Swann
Speaker gender ratio: 4 women: 5 men (44%)
Estimated* base rate of women in the field: 47%
*Method of estimation: We searched NIH RePORTER with keyword impulsivity AND neuro and then counted the ratio of women among the unique researchers in all 5 pages of results using our python script. We left 1 name unclassified. The base rate is estimated to be 47%.
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