CNS2019 Workshop on Methods of Information Theory in Computational Neuroscience

CNS2019 Workshop on Methods of Information Theory in Computational Neuroscience

Organizer: Lubomir Kostal
Sponsor: Entropy
Speaker gender ratio: 1 woman : 8 men (11%)
Estimated* base rate of women in the field: 17-20%

*Method of estimation: Previously established base rate of women in computational neuroscience.

European Workshop on Cognitive Neuropsychology 2019

European Workshop on Cognitive Neuropsychology 2019

Organizers: Franco Denes and Carlo Semenza
Total speaker gender ratio: 6 Women : 8 Men (42%)
Plenary speaker gender ratio: 0 Women : 2 Men (0%)
Symposia:
Organizers – 2 Women : 2 Men (50%)
Speakers – 6 Women : 6 Men (50%)
Discussants – 0 Women : 4 Men (0%)
Estimated* base rate of women in the field: 37-52%

*Method of estimation: Previously established base rate of women in cognitive neuroscience.

7th Baltic-Nordic School on Neuroinformatics (BNNI 2019)

7th Baltic-Nordic School on Neuroinformatics (BNNI 2019)

Organizers:Peter Jedlicka, Ausra Saudargiene, Marja-Leena Linne, Jochen Triesch, Martin Mittag, Herbert Ehrenberger, Susanne Steiner
Sponsors: see here
Faculty gender ratio: 6 women : 13 men (32%)
Estimated* base rate of women in the field: 33%

*Method of estimation: We searched NIH RePORTER with keyword informatics AND (brain OR neuro) and then counted the ratio of women among the unique researchers in all 44 pages using our python script.