Computational and Systems Neuroscience (Cosyne) 2019

Program Chairs: Eugenia Chiappe and Christian Machens
Sponsors: The Gatsby Charitable Foundation, Burroughs Wellcome Fund, Google, Simons Foundation
Invited speaker gender ratio: 6 Women : 8 Men (43%)
Total speaker gender ratio (incl. invited): 12 Women : 32 Men (27%)
Estimated* base rate of women in the field: 17-18%

*Method of estimation: Base rate of women in computational neuroscience previously established through attendance at COSYNE conferences

Organizers: Farzad Farkhooi, Rainer Engelken, Jonathan Kadmon, Viola Priesemann
Sponsors: Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience Göttingen, Max Planck Society and Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft
Speaker gender ratio: 5 women : 10 men (33%)
Estimated* base rate of women 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.

Sense 2 Synapse 2019

Organizers: Florian Berger, Claudia Jou, Christoph Kirst and Silvana Valtcheva
Sponsors: see here
Invited speaker gender ratio: 3 women : 1 man (75%)
Estimated* base rate of women in the field: 43%

*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 31 pages using our python script.

Ninth International Symposium on Biology of Decision Making

Organizers: see here
Partners and funders: see here
Speaker gender ratio: 12 women : 13 men (48%)
Estimated* base rate of women in the field: 30%

*Method of estimation: We searched NIH RePORTER with keyword biology AND “decision making”and then counted the ratio of women among the unique researchers in all 12 pages of results using our python script. Search originally performed in March 2018.

Neural Coding, Computation and Dynamics (NCCD) 2019

Organizers: Andrea Hasenstaub, Srdjan Ostojic, Peter Latham
Speaker gender ratio: 4 Women : 6 Men (40%)
Estimated* base rate of women in the field: 17-20%

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

UK Neural Computation Conference

Organizers: Mark Humphries, Hannes Saal, Robert Schmidt, Stuart Wilson
Sponsors: Medical Research Council, Precision Imaging Beacon University of Nottingham
Speaker gender ratio: 4 Women : 6 Men (40%)
Estimated* base rate of women in the field: 17-20%

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

Reinforcement Learning and Decision Making (RLDM2019)

Organizers: Catherine Hartley and Michael Littman
Invited speaker gender ratio: 7 Women : 9 Men (44%) 
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