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
Organizers: Haim Sompolinsky, Daphna Weinshall, Daniel Lee and Andrew Saxe
Invited speaker gender ratio: 7 Women : 18 Men (28%)
Estimated* base rate of women in the field: 17-20%
*Method of estimation: Previously established base rate of women in computational neuroscience.
Statistical Analysis of Neural Data (SAND9)
Organizers: Zhe (Sage) Chen, Matthew Harrison, Rob Kass, Sri
Sarma, Byron Yu
Speaker gender ratio: 4 Women : 7 Men (36%)
Estimated* base rate of women in the field: 17-20%
*Method of estimation: Previously established base rate of women in computational neuroscience.
2019 Summer School in Social Neuroscience and Neuroeconomics
Organizers: Gregory Samanez-Larkin, Molly Crockett, Jamil Zaki and Kendra Seaman
Faculty gender ratio: 6 Women : 5 Men (55%)
Estimated* base rate of women in the field: 37-39%
*Method of estimation: previously established base rate of women in neuroeconomics.
Organizers: Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience Göttingen (BCCN Göttingen)
Invited speaker gender ratio: 4 Women : 7 Men (36%)
Estimated* base rate of women in the field: 17-18%
*Method of estimation: Since the conference is advertised as “the largest annual Computational Neuroscience Conference in Europe” we used the base rate in the field of computational neuroscience as calculated from attendance at COSYNE 2016.
Sponsors: see here
Speaker* gender ratio: 4 Women : 4 Men (50%)
Estimated** base rate of women in the field: 32%
*Not including one pseudonymous speaker. Including a ninth speaker as either male or female, we get a ratio of either 44% or 56%.
**Method of estimation: previously established base rate of women in neuroscience.
***At the time of posting, there was an error in our base rate using Society for Neuroscience registration data; this has now been corrected.
Organization for Computational Neurosciences 28th Annual Meeting (CNS2019)
Organizer: Thomas Nowotny (Program Chair)
Sponsors: see here
Invited keynote speaker gender ratio: 2 Women : 2 Men (50%)
Estimated* base rate of women in the field: 17-20%
*Method of estimation: Previously established base rate of women in computational neuroscience.
Workshop on “Neuronal Circuits in Motor Behavior” (NCMB)
Organizers: Marylka Yoe Uusisaari, Aleksandra Badura, Erik De Schutter
Invited faculty gender ratio: 5 women : 8 men (38%)
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.
Congress on Robotics and Neuroscience
Sponsor: Centro de Innovacion y Robotica, Universidad Tecnica Federico Santa Maria, Innovacion y Eobotica Estudiantil, Feutfsm
Speaker gender ratio: 4 Women : 2 Men (67%)
Estimated* base rate of women in the field: 38%
*Method of estimation: We searched NIH RePORTER with keywords robotics AND neuro and then counted the ratio of women among the unique researchers in both pages of results found using our python script. Search originally performed in October 2018.
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