IBRO-SIMONS Computational Neuroscience Imbizo 2019 (ISi-CNI)
Organizers: Alex Antrobus, Peter Latham, Joseph Raimondo, Tim Vogels
Sponsors: the International Brain Research Organisation (IBRO) and the Simons Foundation
Speaker gender ratio: 4 Women : 10 Men (29%)
Estimated* base rate of women in the field: 17-20%
*Method of estimation: Previously established base rate of women in computational neuroscience.
7th International Summer School of Neuroengineering
Organizers: Gabriele Arnulfo, Marco Fato, Sergio Martinoia, Paolo Massobrio, Andrea Canessa
Sponsors: see here
Speaker gender ratio: 6 Women : 13 Men (32%)
Estimated* base rate of women in the field: 17-20%
*Method of estimation: Previously established base rate of women in computational neuroscience.
Cognitive Computational Neuroscience Meeting 2018 (CCN 2018)
Organizers: Danielle Bassett, Alyson “Allie” Fletcher, Kendrick Kay, Konrad Kording, Nikolaus Kriegeskorte, Thomas Naselaris, Hendrikje Nienborg, Russ Poldrack and Daphna Shohamy
Sponsors: see here
Keynote speaker gender ratio: 3 women : 4 men (43%)
Tutorial and special event speaker gender ratio: 2 women : 4 men (33%)
Estimated* base rate of women in the field: 17-20%
*Method of estimation: Previously established base rate of women in computational neuroscience.
Cold Spring Harbor Asia conference on Latest Advances in Development & Function of Neuronal Circuits
Organizers: Frank Bradke, Kazuo Emoto, Hailan Hu, Alcino Silva
Sponsor: Novartis
Total speaker gender ratio: 7 women : 17 men (29%)
Keynote speaker gender ratio: 0 women : 2 men (0%)
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.
CNS*2018 Workshop on Methods of Information Theory in Computational Neuroscience
Organizer: Joseph Lizier
Sponsor: Entropy
Speaker gender ratio: 5 women : 9 men (36%)
Estimated* base rate of women in the field: 17-20%
*Method of estimation: Previously established base rate of women in computational neuroscience.
Barcelona Cognition, Brain and Technology Summer School (BCBT2018)
Organizers: Paul Verschure, Tony Prescott and Anna Mura
Sponsors: see here
Speaker gender ratio: 4 Women : 9 Men (31%)
Estimated* base rate of women in the field: 17-20%
*Method of estimation: Previously established base rate of women in computational neuroscience.
12th Annual Canadian Neuroscience Meeting
Organizers: Shernaz Bamji and Paul Frankland
Sponsors: see here
Invited speaker gender ratio: 4 Women : 4 Men (50%)
Estimated* base rate of women in the field: 32%
*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.
Organizers: see here
Invited speaker gender ratio: 11 Women : 11 Men (50%)
Estimated* base rate of women in the field: 39%
*Method of estimation: previously established base rate of women in neuroscience.
Dynamics of learning and computations in neuronal circuits
Organizers: Rainer J. Engelken, Farzad Farkhooi, Jonathan Kadmon, Fred Wolf
Sponsors: Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization (MPI-DS) and Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG)
Speaker gender ratio: 5 women : 10 men (33%)
Estimated* base rate of women in the field: 17-20%
*Method of estimation: Previously established base rate of women in computational neuroscience.
Organizer: Angus Silver
Sponsors: F1000Research, German Neuroinformatics Node (G-Node)
Speaker gender ratio: 6 women : 12 men (33%)
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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