Auditory EEG Signal Processing (AESoP) Symposium

Steering committee: Tom Francart, Jan Wouters, Jonathan Simon, Ed Lalor, Alain de Cheveigné, Andrew Dimitrijevic
Invited speaker gender ratio: 2 Women : 7 Men (22%)
Estimated* base rate of females in the field: 37%

*Method of estimation: We searched NIH RePORTER with keyword (auditory OR hearing OR speech OR language) AND (EEG OR MEG) and then counted the ratio of women among the unique researchers in all 8 pages of results found using our python script.

Brains, Minds and Machines Summer Course 2018

Organizers: Gabriel Kreiman, Boris Katz 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.

*Method of estimation: Based on previous BWN estimates.

FENS Regional Meeting 2017

Organizers: see here
Sponsors: see here
Plenary speaker gender ratio: 1 Woman : 5 Men (17%)
Estimated* base rate of females in the field: 24%

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

Winter School Workshop on Computational Brain Connectivity Mapping

Sponsors: see here
Speaker gender ratio: 3 Women : 21 Men (13%)
Estimated* base rate of females in the field: 17-20%

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

2017 Context and Episodic Memory Symposium (CEMS)

Speaker gender ratio: 8 Women : 12 Men (40%)
Data Blitz gender ratio: 5 Women : 12 Men (29%)
Estimated* base rate of females in the field: 42%

*Method of estimation: We searched NIH RePORTER with keyword “episodic memory” and then counted the ratio of women among the unique researchers in all 10 pages of results using our python script.

Bernstein 2017 Workshop: “Multiscale modeling and simulation”

Organizers: Salvador Dura-Bernal and Bill Lytton
Speaker gender ratio: 1 Woman : 9 Men (10%)
Estimated* base rate of females in the field: 17-20%

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

​7th Annual International Conference ‘Aspects of Neuroscience’

Organizers: see here
Sponsors: see here
Keynote speaker gender ratio: 1 Woman : 6 Men (14%)
Estimated* base rate of females in the field: 24%

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

XIII Brazilian Congress on Computational Intelligence (CBIC 2017)

Organizers: see here
Keynote speaker gender ratio: 0 Women : 3 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.

Research MIMOmics Summer School 2017 and Workshop in Omic Studies

Sponsors: see here
Invited speaker gender ratio: 7 women : 16 men (30%)
Estimated* base rate of females in the field: 32%

*Method of estimation: We searched NIH RePORTER with keyword omics OR omic and then counted the ratio of women among the unique researchers in all 22 pages of results using our python script.