Unifying Neuroscience and Artificial Intelligence in Quebec (UNIQUE) – Student Symposium (USS 2021)
Organizers: Hugo Jourde & Annabelle Harvey (Program Chairs)
Invited speaker gender ratio: 3 Women: 6 Men (33%)
Estimated base rate of women in the field: 15%*
BWN rating: 4
*Method of estimation: previously established base rate of women in neurally-inspired machine learning.
2nd International Workshop on Non-Invasive Brain Stimulation (NIBS)
Organizers: Alexander Opitz, Ivan Alekseichuk, Axel Thielscher
Invited speaker gender ratio: 8 Women: 8 Men (50%)
Estimated base rate of women in the field: 28%*
BWN rating: 4
*Method of estimation: We searched NIH RePORTER with keyword non-invasive brain stimulation, and then counted the ratio of women among the unique researchers using our python script.
30th Annual Computational Neuroscience Meeting (CNS*2021)
Organizer: Christiane Linster (Program Chair)
Invited speaker gender ratio: 2 Women: 2 Men (50%)
Estimated base rate of women in the field: 26%*
BWN rating: 4
*Method of estimation: previously established base rate of women in computational neuroscience.
WWNeuRise Seminar Series: Inter-areal communication
Organizers: Bill Podlaski, Christina Buetfering, Ellen Boven, Gily Ginosar, Joram Keijser, Loreen Hertäg & Lucie Descamps
Invited speaker gender ratio: 4 Women: 5 Men (44%)
Estimated base rate of women in the field: 20%*
BWN rating: 4
*Method of estimation: We searched NIH RePORTER with keywords inter-areal AND communication, and then counted the ratio of women among the unique researchers in 1 page of results using our python script.
Innovators in Cognitive Neuroscience
Organizers: see here
Invited speaker gender ratio: 10 Women: 6 Men (62%)
Estimated base rate of women in the field: 37-52%*
BWN rating: 4
*Method of estimation: previously established base rate of women in cognitive neuroscience.
Sensorimotor Interaction, Language and Embodiment of Symbols (SMILES) workshop
Organizers: Xavier Hinaut, Clément Moulin-Frier, Silvia Pagliarini, Joni Zhong, Loo Chu Kiong, Michael Spranger & Tadahiro Taniguchi
Invited speaker gender ratio: 2 Women: 4 Men (33%)
Estimated base rate of women in the field: 15%*
BWN rating: 4
*Method of estimation: previously established base rate of women in neurally-inspired machine learning.
Brain Plasticity – Influences of Lifestyle and Aging
Conference date: 10/12/2020
Organizers: Veronica Witte, Frauke Beyer, Evelyn Medawar, Simon Hofmann & Silke Friedrich
Invited speakers gender ratio: 3 Women: 1 Men (75%)
Estimated base rate of women in the field: 43%*
BWN rating: 4
*Method of estimation: We searched NIH RePORTER with keywords plasticity AND lifestyle AND aging, and then counted the ratio of women among the unique researchers in 1 page of results using our python script.
NeurIPS 2020 Workshop: Human in the Loop Dialogue Systems
Invited speaker gender ratio: 3 Women: 6 Men (33%)
Estimated base rate of females in the field: 15%*
BWN rating: 4
*Method of estimation: Previously established base rate of women in neurally inspired machine learning.
Challenges and Promises of Inferring Emotion from Images and Video (CVPR 2020)
Organizers: Aleix M. Martinez, Sergio Escalera & Qianli Feng
Invited speaker gender ratio: 3 Women: 1 Man (75%)
Estimated base rate of women in the field: 30%*
BWN rating: 4
*Method of estimation: We searched NIH RePORTER with keywords computer vision AND emotions, and then counted the ratio of women among the unique researchers in 1 page of results using our python script.
Inaugural Simons-Emory Symposium on Motor Control
Organizers: Samuel Sober & Gordon Berman (Directors)
Sponsor: Simons Foundation
Invited speaker gender ratio: 4 Women: 4 Men (50%)
Estimated base rate of women in the field: 28%*
BWN rating: 4
*Method of estimation: We searched NIH RePORTER with keyword motor control within NINDS (Neurological Disorders and Stroke) agency, and then counted the ratio of women among the unique researchers in 36 page of results using our python script. We left 24 names unclassified.
