3rd International Brain Stimulation Conference
Organizers: Mark S. George and Harold A. Sackeim
Sponsors: see here
Invited speaker gender ratio: 3 Women : 3 Men (50%)
Estimated* base rate of women in the field: 44%
*Method of estimation: Previously established base rate of women in brain stimulation.
2018 Gordon Research Conference: Neurobiology of Cognition
Organizers: David A. Leopold and Jennifer M. Groh (Chairs) and David J. Freedman and Ila Fiete (Vice Chairs)
Sponsors: see here
Invited speaker gender ratio: 18 Women : 22 Men (45%)
Discussion leader gender ratio: 3 Women : 6 Men (33%)
Estimated* base rate of women in the field: 37-52%
*Method of estimation: Previously established base rate of women in cognitive neuroscience.
Big Data Neuroscience Workshop 2018
Organizers: see here
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Keynote speaker gender ratio: 1 Woman : 3 Men (25%)
Estimated* base rate of women in the field: 17-20%
*Method of estimation: Previously established base rate of women in computational neuroscience.
LACONEU 2019: V Latin American Summer School in Computational Neuroscience
Organizers: Adrián Palacios, María José Escobar, Patricio Orio, Wael El-Deredy
Speaker gender ratio: 4 Women : 12 Men (25%)
Estimated* base rate of women in the field: 17-20%
*Method of estimation: Previously established base rate of women in computational neuroscience.
Gatsby Tri-Center Meeting 2018
Speaker gender ratio: 5 Women : 16 Men (24%)
Estimated* base rate of women in the field: 17-20%
*Method of estimation: Previously established base rate of women in computational neuroscience.
Thirteenth International Workshop on Neural-Symbolic Learning and Reasoning (NeSy’18)
Organizers: Tarek R. Besold and Artur d’Avila Garcez
Invited speaker gender ratio: 1 Woman : 4 Men (20%)
Estimated* base rate of women in the field: 15%
*Method of estimation: Previously established base rate of women in neurally inspired machine learning.
6th Workshop on Biological Distributed Algorithms
Organizers: Yuval Emek, Amos Korman and Saket Navlakha
Sponsor: European Research Council
Invited speaker gender ratio: 1 Woman : 4 Men (20%)
Estimated* base rate of women in the field: 15%
*Method of estimation: Previously established base rate of women in neurally inspired machine learning.
RuCCS/Psychology Computational Neuroscience Conference: Computation, Cognition and the Brain
Organizers: Randy Gallistel, Brian McLaughlin, Dimitri Metaxas, Sara Pixley, and David Vicario
Speaker gender ratio: 3 Women : 11 Men (21%)
Estimated* base rate of women in the field: 17-20%
*Method of estimation: Previously established base rate of women in computational neuroscience.
FENS Satellite Meeting on “Receptive Fields: Analysis, Models and Applications”
Sponsors: see here
Keynote speaker gender ratio: 2 Women : 6 Men (25%)
Estimated* base rate of women in the field: 16%
*Method of estimation: We searched NIH RePORTER with keyword Receptive AND Fields and then counted the ratio of women among the unique researchers in all 4 pages of results using our python script.
Organizers: Jakob Macke, Bettina Schnell, Johannes Seelig, Marcel Oberlaender
Speaker gender ratio: 6 Women : 12 Men (33%)
Estimated* base rate of women in the field: 32%
*Method of estimation: previously established base rate of women in neuroscience.
**At the time of posting, there was an error in our base rate using Society for Neuroscience registration data; this has now been corrected.
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