Barcelona Cognition, Brain and Technology Summer School (BCBT2017)
Organizers: Paul Verschure, Tony Prescott and Anna Mura
Sponsors: see here
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.
Workshop on Information Processing and Behavioral Variability
Organizers: Rava da Silveira, Mark Dean and Michael Woodford
Speaker gender ratio: 3 Women : 5 Men (38%)
Estimated* base rate of females in the field: 37%
*Method of estimation: previously established base rate of women in neuroeconomics.
8th G-Node Short Course on Neural Data Analysis
Organizers: Jan Grewe and Fabian Sinz
Sponsor: Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung (BMBF)
Faculty 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.
Computational Approaches to Memory and Plasticity (CAMP) at NCBS, Bangalore
Organizers: Upinder Bhalla, Arvind Kumar and Rishikesh Narayanan
Sponsor: National Centre for Biological Sciences
Instructor 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.
2017 Methods in Neuroscience at Dartmouth Computational Summer School
Organizers: Luke Chang, Jeremy Manning, and Matt van der Meer
Sponsors: Center for Social Brain Sciences, Center for Cognitive Neuroscience, and Neukom Institute for Computational Sciences at Dartmouth
Invited speaker gender ratio: 4 women : 11 men (27%)
Estimated* base rate of females in the field: 17-20%
*Method of estimation: Previously established base rate of women in computational neuroscience.
7th Annual Computational Sensory-Motor Neuroscience Summer School (CoSMo 2017)
Organizers: Gunnar Blohm, Konrad Körding and Paul Schrater
Sponsors: NIH (R25), Brain Canada Foundation, CAPnet and NSF (DREAM)
Speaker gender ratio: 2 women : 6 men (25%)
Estimated* base rate of females in the field: 21%
*Method of estimation: We searched NIH RePORTER with keyword (Computational AND Sensory-Motor) OR (Computational AND Sensory AND Motor) and then counted the ratio of women among the unique researchers in all 10 pages of results using our python script.
2017 Neuroeconomics Summer Institute at NYU Shanghai
Organizers: Nathaniel Daw, Paul Glimcher, Hilke Plassmann and Agnieszka Tymula
Faculty gender ratio: 8 Women : 11 Men (42%)
Estimated* base rate of females in the field: 37%
*Method of estimation: previously established base rate of women in neuroeconomics.
MBL Methods in Computational Neuroscience Course
Organizers: Michale Fee and Mark Goldman
Invited speaker gender ratio: 6 women : 17 men (26%)
Estimated* base rate of females in the field: 17-20%
*Method of estimation: Previously established base rate of women in computational neuroscience.
40th European Conference on Visual Perception ECVP 2017
Organizers: Guido Hesselmann, Marianne Maertens, Florian Ostendorf, Martin Rolfs & Philipp Sterzer
Sponsors: still being confirmed, see here
Plenary speaker gender ratio: 2 women : 2 men (50%)
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.
Organizers: Christoph Kirst, Gonzalo Otazu, Nicolas Renier, Florian Berger and Jérémie Barral
Invited speaker gender ratio: 2 women : 2 men (50%)
Estimated* base rate of females in the field: 36%
*Method of estimation: We searched NIH RePORTER with keyword “neurobiology”, narrowing down to only Eastern US states and then counted the ratio of women among the unique researchers in all 30 pages using our python script.
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