2019 UT Austin Conference on Learning & Memory
Sponsor: National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke
Speaker gender ratio (incl. keynote): 9 Women : 9 Men (50%)
Estimated* base rate of women in the field: 38%
*Method of estimation: We searched NIH RePORTER with keyword (learning OR memory) AND neuro and then counted the ratio of women among the unique researchers in all 75 pages of results found using our python script. Search originally performed in December 2017.
Advances and Perspectives in Auditory Neuroscience (APAN) 2018
Estimated* base rate of women in the field: 32-37%
*Method of estimation: Previously established base rate of women in auditory neuroscience.
Society for Neuroeconomics Annual Meeting 2018
Organizers: Joe Kable, Uma Karmarkar and Ian Krajbich
Sponsors: see here
Total speaker gender ratio: 15 Women : 14 Men (52%)
Invited speaker gender ratio: 4 Women : 3 Men (57%)
Estimated* base rate of women in the field: 37-39%
*Method of estimation: previously established base rate of women in neuroeconomics.
Computational Psychiatry: from theory to practice
Organizers: Peter Dayan, Xiaosi Gu and Read Montague
Speaker gender ratio: 7 Women : 7 Men (50%)
Estimated* base rate of women in the field: 29%
*Method of estimation: previously established base rate of women in computational psychiatry.
G-Node Advanced Neural Data Analysis Course (ANDA 2019)
Organizers: Sonja Grün, Martin Nawrot, Yifat Prut and Thomas Wachtler
Sponsor: Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung (BMBF)
Faculty gender ratio: 4 Women : 8 Men (33%)
Estimated* base rate of women in the field: 17-20%
*Method of estimation: Previously established base rate of women in computational neuroscience.
Complex Systems in Neuroscience: Bridging Theory and Experiment
Organizers: Hannah Bos, James Hengenius, Chengcheng Huang, Ryan Phillips, Yury Sokolov, Rashid Williams-García, Dan Wilson
Sponsors: see here
Speaker gender ratio: 4 Women : 8 Men (33%)
Estimated* base rate of women in the field: 17-20%
*Method of estimation: Previously established base rate of women in computational neuroscience.
ESI Systems Neuroscience Conference 2018 (ESI SyNC)
Organizers: Wolf Singer, Pascal Fries, André Castro, Tommaso Tosato, Ana Broggini, Miriam Mueller, Renata Vajda
Speaker gender ratio: 4 women : 6 men (40%)
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.
11th FENS Forum of Neuroscience
Organizers: see here
Sponsors: see here
Keynote speaker gender ratio: 14 Women : 11 Men (56%)
Estimated* base rate of women in the field: 39%
*Method of estimation: previously established base rate of women in neuroscience.
BNA2019 Festival of Neuroscience
Organizers: see here
Plenary speaker gender ratio: 5 Women : 4 Men (56%)
Estimated* base rate of women in the field: 32%
*Method of estimation: previously established base rate of women in neuroscience.
Advanced Course Summer 2018: Cell Types, Coding and Cognition
Organizers: Christof Koch and Ed Lein
Faculty gender ratio: 3 Women : 4 Men (43%)
Estimated* base rate of women in the field: 17-20%
*Method of estimation: Previously established base rate of women in computational neuroscience.
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