Big Data Neuroscience Workshop 2017
Organizers: see here
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Invited speaker gender ratio (incl. keynotes): 2 Women : 11 Men (15%)
Keynote speaker gender ratio: 1 Woman : 3 Men (25%)
Estimated* base rate of females in the field: 17-20%
*Method of estimation: Previously established base rate of women in computational neuroscience.
Waitt Advanced Biophotonics Center 5th Annual Symposium (WABC 2017)
Organizers: Martin Hetzer, Axel Nimmerjahn, Uri Manor
Sponsors: see here
Speaker gender ratio: 1 woman : 7 men (13%)
Estimated* base rate of females in the field: 14%
*Method of estimation: We searched NIH RePORTER with keyword biophotonics OR ((biology OR biological) AND photonics) and then counted the ratio of women among the unique researchers in all 100 results using our python script.
International workshop on the computational properties of basal ganglia neurons
Organizers: Izhar Bar-Gad, Alon Korngreen, and Peter Magill
Sponsors: Israel Science Foundation, The British Council, The Gonda Brain Center, Bar-Ilan University
Speaker & discussion leader gender ratio: 4 women : 18 men (18%)
Speaker gender ratio: 2 women : 16 men (11%)
Estimated* base rate of females in the field: 27%
*Method of estimation: We searched NIH RePORTER with keyword basal AND ganglia AND (computational OR theoretical OR theory) and then counted the ratio of women among the unique researchers in all 69 results using our python script.
Neuronal Oscillations: mechanisms and functionality
Organizers: Horacio Rotstein, Frances Skinner, Vassilis Cutsuridis
Speaker gender ratio: 5 women : 13 men (28%)
Estimated* base rate of females in the field: 29%
*Method of estimation: We searched NIH RePORTER with keyword (neuronal OR neural) and oscillations and then counted the ratio of women among the unique researchers in all 8 pages of results using our python script.
Fingerprints of brain dynamics estimated from neuroimaging data
Organizers: Matthieu Gilson and Tim van Hartevelt
Speaker gender ratio: 2 women : 7 men (22%)
Estimated* base rate of females in the field: 31%
*Method of estimation: We searched NIH RePORTER with keyword brain AND dynamics AND (neuroimaging OR imaging) and then counted the ratio of women among the unique researchers in all 21 pages of results using our python script.
8th NeuralEnsemble CodeJam Workshop
Organizers: see here
Sponsor: European Union through the Human Brain Project
Speaker gender ratio: 5 Women : 32 Men (14%)
Estimated* base rate of females in the field: 17-20%
*Method of estimation: Previously established base rate of women in computational neuroscience.
Neuromodulation of Neural Microcircuits (NM2)
Organizers: Srikanth Ramaswamy, Henry Markram, Mriganka Sur, Anita Disney, Menahem Segal, Michael Hasselmo, Seung-Hee Lee, Alexander Thiele, Amy Arnsten
Speaker gender ratio: 8 women : 26 men (24%)
Estimated* base rate of females in the field: 28%
*Method of estimation: We searched NIH RePORTER with keyword neuromodulation AND circuits and then counted the ratio of women among the unique researchers in all 204 results.
Ascona 2017 Neuronal Circuits Meeting
Organizers: see here
Speaker gender ratio: 5 women : 29 men (15%)
Estimated* base rate of females in the field: 17-18%
*Method of estimation: Previously established base rate of women in computational neuroscience, specifically the numbers based on attendance at COSYNE (Computational and Systems Neuroscience) 2016.
New Challenges in Neural Computation 2017
Organizers: Barbara Hammer, Thomas Martinetz and Thomas Villmann
Sponsors: European Neural Networks Society and CITEC centre of excellence
Invited speaker gender ratio: 0 Women : 2 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: David Angulo Garcia, Alessandro Torcini, Demian Battaglia and Rosa Cossart
Sponsors: see here
Speaker gender ratio: 2 women : 11 men (15%)
Estimated* base rate of females in the field: 17-20%
*Method of estimation: Previously established base rate of women in computational neuroscience.
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