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November 28 – December 9 2022
Organisers: Neural Information Processing Systems
Total invited talks speaker gender ratio: 3 Women: 4 Men (43%)
Estimated base rate of women in the field: 26%*
BWN rating: 4, within 2 standard deviations above base rate
*Method of estimation: previously established base rate of women in the computational neuroscience field
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December 7 – December 10 2022
Organisers: Guo-li Ming, Sergiu Pasca
Total invited speakers gender ratio: 10 Women: 11 Men (48%)
Estimated base rate of women in the field: 32.5%*
BWN rating: 4, within 2 standard deviations above base rate
*Method of estimation: previously established base rate of women in the neural structure and brain modeling field
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October 25-27, 2022
Organisers: Michelle Korda, Steven Lukman, Chiara Pastore, Iris Liu
Total talks gender ratio: 13 Women: 11 Men (54%)
Estimated base rate of women in the field: 43%*
BWN rating: 4, within or at 2 standard deviations above base rate
**Method of estimation: previously established base rate of women in the neuroscience field
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September 13-16, 2022
Organisers:
Raoul-Martin Memmesheimer, Christian Machens, Tatjana Tchumachenko, Moritz Helias, Anna Levina, Megan Carey, Brent Doiron, Tatiana Engel, Ann Hermundstad, Christian Leibold, Timothy O’Leary, Srdjan Ostojic, Cristina Savin, Mark van Rossum, Friedemann Zenke
Total speakers/talks gender ratio: 8 Women: 12 Men (40%)
Estimated base rate of women in the field: 26%*
BWN rating: 4, within or at 2 standard deviation above base rate
*Method of estimation: previously established base rate of women in the computational neuroscience field
Organisers:
Richard Simerly, J. Nicholas Betley, Stephanie Fulton
Ann Weber, Sarkis Mazmanian, Scott Sternson
Invited speakers gender ratio: 16 Women: 22 Men (42%)
Estimated base rate of women in the field: 32%*
BWN rating: 4
*Method of estimation: previously established base rate of women in neuroscience.
Organisers:
Tanenbaum Open Science Institute
Invited speakers gender ratio: 11 Women: 12 Men (48%)
Estimated base rate of women in the field: 32%*
BWN rating: 4 (i.e. at or within 2 standard deviations above base rate)
*Method of estimation: previously established base rate of women scientists in the field of neuroscience.
Canadian Symposium for Computational Neuroscience [link to conference page]
Organisers:
Aaron Gruber
Artur Luczak
Majid Mohajerani
Emma Towlson
Joern Davidsen
Wilten Nicola
Renée Dumas
Adam Luoma
Invited speakers gender ratio: 6 Women: 7 Men (46%)
Estimated base rate of women in the field: 26%*
BWN rating: 4 (i.e. at or within 2 standard deviations above base rate)
*Method of estimation: previously established base rate of women in the field of computational neuroscience.
sobr: 2021 Student Symposium [link to conference page]
Organisers:
Aleksandra Miljevic (Symposium Manager)
Chalystha Lee and Sadia Alvi (Events Team)
Invited speakers gender ratio: 3 Women: 2 Men (60%)
Estimated base rate of women in the field: 32%*
BWN rating: 4 (i.e. within 2 standard deviations above base rate)
*Method of estimation: previously established base rate of women in general field of neuroscience.
Development and 3D Modeling of the Human Brain Conference
Organisers:
Guo-li Ming, University of Pennsylvania – Perelman School of Medicine
Sergiu Pasca, Stanford University
Invited speakers gender ratio: 9 Women: 12 Men (43%)
Estimated base rate of women in the field: 32.5%*
BWN rating: 4
*Method of estimation: previously established base rate of women in neural structure and brain modelling.
Axons 2021: Structure and Function
Organisers:
Maarten Kole
Maren Engelhardt
Matthew Grubb
Invited speakers gender ratio: 12 Women: 14 Men (46%)
Estimated base rate of women in the field: 33%*
BWN rating: 4
*Method of estimation: We searched NIH RePORTER with keyword “molecular neuroscience” and counted the ratio of women among the unique researchers.
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