Organisers:
Caitlyn Finton, Allie Pagano, Jessica Jones, Alex Sanchez, Haoxue Fan, Sarah Kalinowski, Emma Laurent, Ellent Finch, Taylor McGuire, Camille Phaneuf, Allie Morehouse, Shaan McGhie, Shari Lu
Invited speakers gender ratio: 17 Women: 0 Men (100%)
Estimated base rate of women in the field: 59%*
BWN rating: 5 (i.e. more than 2 standard deviations above base rate)
*Method of estimation: estimated base rate of women in psychology as reported by the National Science Foundation in 2015.
WorldWideNeuRise Seminar Series: Predictive Processing
Organisers:
Bill Podlaski, Christina Beutfering, Ellen Boven, Gily Ginosar, Joram Keijser, Loreen Hertag, & Lucie Descamps
Invited speaker gender ratio: 4 Women: 4 Men (50%)
Estimated base rate of women in the field: 45%*
BWN rating: 5
*Method of estimation: previously estimated base rate of women in the field of cognitive neuroscience.
Bernstein Conference 2021 Online
Organisers: Christian Leibold (Conference Chair)
Julijana Gjorgjieva & Christian Machens (Program Chairs)
Invited speaker gender ratio: 7 Women: 5 Men (64%)
Estimated base rate of women in the field: 26%*
BWN rating: 5
*Method of estimation: previously established base rate of women in computational neuroscience.
Organizers: Julijana Gjorgjieva (Program Chair), Christian Machens (Program Vice Chair)
Invited speaker gender ratio: 7 Women: 5 Men (58%)
Estimated base rate of women in the field: 26%*
BWN rating: 5
*Method of estimation: previously established base rate of women in computational neuroscience.
Symposium for Cognitive Auditory Neuroscience
Organizers: Lori Holt, Barbara Shinn-Cunningham & Bharath Chandrasekaran
Sponsors: National Institutes of Health & DSF Charitable Foundation
Invited speaker gender ratio: 9 Women: 3 Men (75%)
Estimated base rate of women in the field: 35%*
BWN rating: 5
*Method of estimation: previously established base rate of women in auditory neuroscience.
Symposium on Explanation in Neuroscience and Artificial Intelligence (SENAI)
Organizers: Jessica Thompson, Max Puelma Touzel, Zeke Williams
Invited speaker gender ratio: 3 Women: 3 Men (50%)
Estimated base rate of women in the field: 15%*
BWN rating: 5
*Method of estimation: previously established base rate of women in neurally-inspired machine learning.
Montreal AI & Neuroscience (MAIN 2020)
Organizers: Pierre Bellec, Andrea Green, Karim Jerbi, Guillaume Lajoie, Jean-Marc Lina, Bratislav Misic, Irina Rish & Pascal Vincent
Invited speaker gender ratio: 14 Women: 15 Men (48%)
Estimated base rate of women in the field: 15%*
BWN rating: 5
*Method of estimation: previously established base rate of women in neurally-inspired machine learning.
Conference date: 10/26/20
Organizers: Dan Goodman, Konrad Kording, Brad Wyble, Titipat Achakulvisut, Tim Vogels, Chris Rozell, Yiota Poirazi & Megan Peters
Sponsors: see here
Invited speaker gender ratio: 13 Women: 9 Men (59%)
Estimated base rate of women in the field: 17-20%*
BWN rating: 5
*Method of estimation: Previously established base rate of women in computational neuroscience.
Simons-Emory Workshop on Neural Dynamics
Conference date: 12/04/20
Organizer: Chethan Pandarinath
Invited speaker gender ratio: 4 Women: 4 Men (50%)
Estimated base rate of women in the field: 17-20%*
BWN rating: 5
*Method of estimation: Previously established base rate of women in computational neuroscience.
NeurIPS2020: Workshop on Biological and Artificial Reinforcement Learning
Organizers: Raymond Chua, Feryal Behbahani, Sara Zannone, Rui Ponte Costa, Ida Momennejad, Blake Richards & Doina Precup
Invited speaker gender ratio: 5 Women: 3 Men (63%)
Estimated base rate of women in the field: 24-25%*
BWN rating: 5
*Method of estimation: Previously established base rate of women in reinforcement learning.
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