Okinawa/OIST Computational Neuroscience Course 2018

Organizers: Erik De Schutter, Kenji Doya, Bernd Kuhn and Jeff Wickens
Lecturer gender ratio: 3 Women : 13 Men (19%)
Estimated* base rate of females in the field: 17-20%

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

Signal and Noise along the auditory pathway (SNAP)

Sponsors: see here
Keynote speaker gender ratio: 4 Women : 5 Men (44%)
Discussant gender ratio: 1 Woman : 1 Man (50%)
Estimated* base rate of females in the field: 33%

*Method of estimation: We searched NIH RePORTER with keyword (signal OR noise) AND auditory and then counted the ratio of women among the unique researchers in all 27 pages of results found using our python script.

Cognitive Computation Symposium: Thinking Beyond Deep Learning (CoCoSym)

Organizers: Tarek R. Besold (Host/Chair), Artur d’Avila Garcez, Michael Spranger, Michael Witbrock
Invited speaker gender ratio: 3 Women : 11 Men (21%)
Estimated* base rate of females in the field: 15%

*Method of estimation: Previously established base rate of women in neurally inspired machine learning.

Dendrites 2018: Dendritic anatomy, molecules and function

Organizers: Panayiota Poirazi, Erin Schuman, Michael Hausser, Matthew Larkum
Sponsors: EMBO reports, dEMORY, Crete University Press
Speaker gender ratio: 8 Women : 13 Men (38%)
Estimated* base rate of females in the field: 31%

*Method of estimation: We searched NIH RePORTER with keyword dendrites and then counted the ratio of women among the unique researchers in all 24 pages of results found using our python script.

2018 International Conference on Learning & Memory

Speaker gender ratio: 8 Women : 9 Men (47%)
Estimated* base rate of females in the field: 38%

*Method of estimation: We searched NIH RePORTER with keyword (learning OR memory) AND neuro and then counted the ratio of women among the unique researchers in all 75 pages of results found using our python script.

International Conference on Mathematical Neuroscience 2018

Organizers: Susanne Ditlevsen, Bard Ermentrout and Etienne Tanré
Keynote speaker gender ratio: 1 Woman : 2 Men (33%)
Estimated* base rate of females in the field: 17-20%

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

Advanced Course Summer 2018: Circuit Dynamics and Cognition

Organizer: Gyorgy Buzsaki
Faculty gender ratio: 1 woman : 5 men (17%)
Estimated* base rate of females in the field: 17%

*Method of estimation: We searched NIH RePORTER with keyword circuit AND dynamics AND cognition and then counted the ratio of women among the unique researchers in all 64 results found using our python script.

16th Annual Molecular and Cellular Cognition Society Symposium

Invited speaker gender ratio:  3 Women : 5 Men (38%)
Estimated* base rate of females in the field: 33%

*Method of estimation: We searched NIH RePORTER with keyword  (molecular OR cellular) AND cognition and counted the ratio of women among the unique researchers in pages 1, 19, 37, 54 and 71 of 71 results pages. Search originally done in December 2016.

Seventh Cold Spring Harbor Conference on Neuronal Circuits

Organizers: Florian Engert, Fritjof Helmchen, Kristin Scott
Speaker gender ratio: 3 women : 10 men (23%)
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.

41st European Conference on Visual Perception ECVP 2018

Organizers: see here
Plenary speaker gender ratio: 1 woman : 2 men (33%)
Estimated* base rate of females in the field: 32%

*Method of estimation: We searched NIH RePORTER with keyword visual perception and then counted the ratio of women among the unique researchers in all 29 pages using our python script. Search originally performed in February 2017.