Dendrites 2020: Dendritic anatomy, molecules, and function
Organizers: Panayiota Poirazi, Kristen Harris, Matthew Larkum, Michael Häusser
Sponsors: EMBO Molecular Medicine, EMBO Press
Speaker gender ratio: 8 Women : 9 Men (47%)
Estimated* base rate of women in the field: 43%
*Method of estimation: previously established base rate of women in neuroscience
4: within 2std above base rate
Advances and Perspectives in Auditory Neuroscience (APAN) 2019
Advances and Perspectives in Auditory Neuroscience (APAN) 2019
Organizers: Jennifer Bizley, Daniel Polley, Yale Cohen, Liz Romanski, Xiaoqin Wang
Sponsors: Tucker-Davis Technologies and National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders
Keynote speaker gender ratio: 1 Woman : 0 Men (100%)
Young investigator spotlight gender ratio: 1 Woman : 1 Man (50%)
Invited slide sessions speaker gender ratio: 4 Women : 2 Men (66%)
Poster teasers speaker gender ratio: 2 Women : 6 Men (25%)
Total invited speaker gender ratio: 8 Women : 9 Men (47%)
Estimated* base rate of women in the field: 32-37%
*Method of estimation: Previously established base rate of women in auditory neuroscience.
NeurIPS 2019 Workshop: Real Neurons and Hidden Units
NeurIPS 2019 Workshop: Real Neurons and Hidden Units
Organizers: Guillaume Lajoie, Eli Shlizerman, Maximilian Puelma Touzel, Konrad Kording, Jessica Thompson
Speaker gender ratio: 3 Women : 4 Men (42%)
Estimated* base rate of women in the field: 15%
*Method of estimation: Previously established base rate of women in neurally inspired machine learning based on registration for NIPS 2016.
NeurIPS2019 Workshop on Biological and Artificial Reinforcement Learning
NeurIPS2019 Workshop on Biological and Artificial Reinforcement Learning
Organizers: Raymond Chua, Feryal Behbahani, Sara Zannone, Rui Ponte Costa, Claudia Clopath, Blake Richards, Doina Precup
Speaker gender ratio: 5 Women : 3 Men (63%)
Estimated* base rate of women in the field: 24-25%
*Method of estimation: Established base rate from the inaugural conference on reinforcement learning and decision making (RLDM) in 2013
7th Cambridge Neuroscience Symposium: Artificial and Biological Cognition
7th Cambridge Neuroscience Symposium: Artificial and Biological Cognition
Speaker gender ratio: 11 Women : 15 Men (42%)
Estimated* base rate of women in the field: 15%
*Method of estimation: Previously established base rate of women in neurally inspired machine learning based on registration for NIPS 2016.
Summer School in Computational and Theoretical Models in Neuroscience
Summer School in Computational and Theoretical Models in Neuroscience (ConTaMiNEURO 2019)
Organizers: Samir Suweis, Amos Maritan, Maurizio Corbetta, Marco Formentin, Stefano Vassanelli, Achille Giacometti and Miguel A. Munoz
Speaker gender ratio: 7 Women : 16 Men (30%)
Estimated* base rate of women in the field: 17-20%
*Method of estimation: Previously established base rate of women in computational neuroscience.
Gordon Research Conference: Cerebellar Mechanisms for Movement, Learning and Cognition in Health and Disease
Organizers: Megan R. Carey and Javier F. Medina
Sponsors: see here
Speaker gender ratio: 14 Women : 17 Men (45%)
Estimated* base rate of women in the field: 35%
*Method of estimation: We searched NIH RePORTER with keyword Cerebellum and then counted the ratio of women among the unique researchers in all 20 pages of results using our python script.
