NEI 50th Anniversary Symposium: Vision and the Brain
Sponsors: National Eye Institute, NIH
Speaker gender ratio: 4 women : 5 men (44%)
Estimated* base rate of females in the field: 30%
*Method of estimation: We searched NIH RePORTER with keyword vision science and then counted the ratio of women among the unique researchers in all 54 pages using our python script. Search originally performed in February 2017.
Organizers: Marko Nardini, Ulrik Beierholm, Maria Olkkonen, Tessa Dekker, Laurence T Maloney
Sponsors: Experimental Psychology Society and Durham University
Speaker gender ratio: 3 Women : 8 Men (27%)
Estimated* base rate of females in the field: 17-20%
*Method of estimation: Previously established base rate of women in computational neuroscience.
European Workshop on Cognitive Neuropsychology 2018
Organizers: Franco Denes and Carlo Semenza
Plenary speaker gender ratio: 1 Woman : 1 Man (50%)
Symposia:
Organizers – 2 Women : 2 Men (50%)
Speakers – 6 Women : 6 Men (50%)
Discussants – 1 Woman : 3 Men (25%)
Estimated* base rate of females in the field: 37%
*Method of estimation: Previously established base rate of women in cognitive neuroscience.
Keystone Symposium: Frontiers of Serotonin Beyond the Brain
Organizers: Fusun Kilic, Michael D. Gershon and Luc Maroteaux
Sponsors: Chroma Technology Corporation and Oncotarget
Total speaker gender ratio: 11 women : 18 men (38%)
Keynote speaker gender ratio: 2 women : 4 men (33%)
Estimated* base rate of females in the field: 32%
*Method of estimation: We searched NIH RePORTER with keyword serotonin and then counted the ratio of women among the unique researchers in all 28 pages of results using our python script. (Search done March 2017.)
Cognitively Informed Artificial Intelligence at NIPS 2017
Organizers: Angela Yu, Brenden Lake, Mike Mozer
Invited speaker gender ratio: 2 Women : 6 Men (25%)
Estimated* base rate of females in the field: 15%
*Method of estimation: Previously established base rate of women in neurally inspired machine learning.
Winter School on Deterministic and Stochastic Models in Neuroscience
Organizers: Patrick Cattiaux & Grégory Faye
Total speaker gender ratio: 2 Women : 8 Men (20%)
Invited speaker gender ratio: 0 Women : 6 Men (0%)
Course speaker gender ratio: 2 Women : 2 Men (50%)
Estimated* base rate of females in the field: 17-20%
*Method of estimation: Previously established base rate of women in computational neuroscience.
Workshop: From synaptic plasticity to motor control
Organizers: Wulfram Gerstner and Aditya Gilra
Speaker gender ratio: 3 Women : 9 Men (25%)
Estimated* base rate of females in the field: 17-20%
*Method of estimation: Previously established base rate of women in computational neuroscience.
G-Node Advanced Neural Data Analysis Course (ANDA 2018)
Organizers: Sonja Grün, Martin Nawrot and Thomas Wachtler
Sponsor: Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung (BMBF)
Faculty gender ratio: 3 Women : 8 Men (27%)
Estimated* base rate of females in the field: 17-20%
*Method of estimation: Previously established base rate of women in computational neuroscience.
Winter School on Deterministic and Stochastic Models in Neuroscience
Organizers: Patrick Cattiaux and Grégory Faye
Speaker gender ratio: 2 Women : 8 Men (20%)
Estimated* base rate of females in the field: 17-20%
*Method of estimation: Previously established base rate of women in computational neuroscience.
6th International Conference on Auditory Cortex (ICAC 2017)
Estimated* base rate of females in the field: 32-37%
*Method of estimation: Previously established base rate of women in auditory neuroscience.
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