Computational Theories of the Brain

Organizers: Wolfgang Maass, Christos Papadimitriou, S. Murray Sherman
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Invited speaker gender ratio: 6 women : 16 men (27%)
Estimated* base rate of women in the field: 17-20%

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

2018 Berkeley Summer Course In Mining And Modeling Of Neuroscience Data

Organizers: Fritz Sommer and Jeff Teeters
Instructor gender ratio: 3 women : 3 men (50%)
Estimated* base rate of women in the field: 17-20%

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

Eighth International Symposium on Biology of Decision Making

Organizers: Kenji Doya, Lesley Fellows, Mehdi Khamassi, Etienne Koechlin, Mathias Pessiglione, Chris Summerfield, Miriam Teschl
Invited speaker gender ratio: 10 women : 15 men (40%)
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.

CAJAL Course in Computational Neuroscience 2018

Organizers: Joe Paton, Christian Machens and Jakob Macke
Faculty gender ratio: 6 women : 15 men (29%)
Estimated* base rate of women in the field: 17-20%

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

Canonical Computation in Brains and Machines 2018 Symposium

Organizers: Matteo Carandini, Anne Churchland, David Heeger and Tony Movshon
Sponsor: NYU Global Institute for Advanced Study
Speaker gender ratio: 7 Women : 20 Men (26%)
Estimated* base rate of females in the field: 15%

*Method of estimation: Previously established base rate of women in neurally inspired machine learning based on registration for NIPS 2016.

European Neuroscience Conference by Doctoral Students (ENCODS 2018)

Organizers: see here
Sponsors: see here
Keynote speaker gender ratio: 2 women: 2 men (50%)
Estimated* base rate of females in the field: 24%

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

APAN 2017 – Advances and Perspectives in Auditory Neuroscience

2018 Summer School in Social Neuroscience and Neuroeconomics

Organizers: Gregory Samanez-Larkin, Molly Crockett, Jamil Zaki and Kendra Seaman
Faculty gender ratio: 8 Women : 7 Men (53%)
Estimated* base rate of females in the field: 37-39%

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

Organization for Computational Neurosciences 27th Annual Meeting (CNS2018)

Organizer: Thomas Nowotny (Program Chair)
Sponsors: see here
Total speaker gender ratio: 8 Women : 20 Men (29%)
Invited keynote speaker gender ratio: 2 Women : 2 Men (50%)
Estimated* base rate of females in the field: 17-20%

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

9th Annual Oxford Neuroscience Symposium

Speaker gender ratio:  8 Women :  11 Men (42%)
Estimated* base rate of women in the field: 24%

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