Neuroscience 2017

Organizers: see here
Invited speaker gender ratio: 10 Women : 14 Men (42%)
Estimated* base rate of females in the field: 24%

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

11th Annual Canadian Neuroscience Meeting

Organizers: see here
Invited speaker gender ratio: 8 Women :  7 Men (53%)
Total speaker gender ratio:  31 Women :  36 Men (46%)
Estimated* base rate of women in the field: 24%

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

Neural Coding, Computation and Dynamics (NCCD) 2017

Organizers: Peter Latham, Srdjan Ostojic and Maneesh Sahani
Speaker gender ratio: 4 women : 4 men (50%)
Estimated* base rate of females in the field: 17-20%

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

CAJAL Course in Computational Neuroscience 2017

Organizers: Gilles Laurent, Christian Machens and Jakob Macke
Invited speaker gender ratio: 8 women : 13 men (38%)
Estimated* base rate of females in the field: 17-20%

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

Reinforcement Learning and Decision Making (RLDM2017)

Organizers: Emma Brunskill and Nathaniel Daw
Sponsors: see here
Invited speaker gender ratio: 7 Women : 8 Men (47%)
Invited speaker gender ratio (incl. tutorial speakers): 9 Women : 10 Men (47%)
Estimated* base rate of females in the field: 24-25%

*Method of estimation: Established base rate from the inaugural conference on reinforcement learning and decision making (RLDM) in 2013

International Conference on Mathematical Neuroscience 2017

Organizers: Zachary Kilpatrick, Julijana Gjorgjieva and Robert Rosenbaum
Plenary speaker gender ratio: 4 Women : 6 Men (40%)
Estimated* base rate of females in the field: 17-20%

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

Bernstein Conference 2017

Organizers: Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience Göttingen (BCCN Göttingen)
Funded by: German Federal Ministry of Education and Research
Invited speaker gender ratio: 6 Women : 6 Men (50%)
Estimated* base rate of females in the field: 17-18%

We are especially happy to see gender parity at the Bernstein Conference, given the history of this annual meeting. May this be the first of many.

*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.