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.

4th Lifelong Learning Workshop at ICML 2020

Organizers: Shagun Sodhani, Sarath Chandar, Balaraman Ravindran & Doina Precup
Speaker gender ratio: 2 Women: 3 Men (40%)
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.

NEST Conference 2020

Organizers: Hans Ekkehard Plesser & Susanne Kunkel
Sponsors: see here
Speaker gender ratio: 6 Women: 16 Men (27%)
Estimated base rate of women in the field: 17-20%*
BWN rating: 4

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

International Conference on Mathematical Neuroscience 2020 (ICMNS 2020)

Organizers: Daniele Avitabile, Tatiana Engel, Tilo Schwalger & Wilhelm Stannat
Keynote speaker gender ratio: 1 Woman: 1 Man (50%)
Estimated base rate of women in the field: 17-20%*
BWN rating: 4

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

Theoretical and Computational Neuroscience Summer School (CNeuro 2020)

Host: Tsinghua University
Faculty:

• Rava Azeredo da Silveira (Ecole Normale Supérieure, France) 
• Stella Christie (Tsinghua University) 
• Damon Clark (Yale University, USA)
• Carina Curto (Penn State University)
• Ralf Haefner (University of Rochester, USA)
• Yu Hu (HKUST, Hong Kong)
• Daniel Lee (Cornell University)
• Songting Li (Shanghai JiaoTong University)
• Zhaoping Li (MPI of Biologial Cybernetics)
• Cristina Savin (NYU) Lee (Cornell University, USA)
• Eric Shea-Brown (University of Washington, USA)
• Sara Solla (Northwestern University)
• Sen Song (Tsinghua University, China)
• Louis Tao (Peking University, China)
• Xiaoqin Wang (Johns Hopkins University, USA)
• Quan Wen (University of Science and Technology of China)
• Hang Zhang (Peking University)
• Kechen Zhang (Johns Hopkins University, USA)
• Douglas Zhou (Shanghai JiaoTong University, China)

Faculty gender ratio (updated): 6 Women: 13 Men (32%)
Estimated base rate of women in the field: 17-18%*
BWN rating: 4

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

Canadian Computational Neuroscience Spotlight (CCNS 2020)

Organizers: Scott Rich, Andreea Diaconescu, John Griffiths & Milad Lankarany
Speaker gender ratio: 4 Women: 9 Men (31%)
Estimated* base rate of women in the field: 17-18%

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