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March 25-28, 2023
Organisers: Cognitive Neuroscience Society
Invited symposium talks and keynote gender ratio: 9 Women: 11 Men (45%)
Estimated base rate of women in the field: 52%*
BWN rating: 2, within one standard deviation below base rate
*Method of estimation: previously established base rate of women in the cognitive neuroscience field
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March 13-14, 2023
Organisers: Laura Busse, Tim Vogels, Blake Richards, Jessica Cardin, Michael Long, Kanaka Rajan, Andrew Saxe, Anna Schapiro, Christopher Summerfield, Aman Saleem, Hysell Oviedo, Grace Lindsay, Carlos Stein Brito, Angela Langdon, Sashank Pisupati
Total talks speaker gender ratio: 9 Women: 6 Men (60%)
Estimated base rate of women in the field: 26%*
BWN rating: 5, more than 2 standard deviations above base rate
*Method of estimation: previously established base rate of women in the computational neuroscience field
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November 10 – November 11 2022
Organisers: IEEE Brain Technical Community, IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, the IEEE Solid State Circuits Society, UC San Diego & and the Institute for Neural Computation
Total invited speakers gender ratio: 10 Women: 9 Men (53%)
Estimated base rate of women in the field: 26%*
BWN rating: 5, within 2 standard deviations above base rate
*Method of estimation: previously established base rate of women in the computational neuroscience field
Organisers:
Sach Mukherjee, DZNE, Germany
Sachin Ranade, Nature Neuroscience, USA
Stefan Remy, DZNE, Germany
Joachim Schultze, DZNE, Germany
Owain Vaughan, Nature Electronics, UK
Liesbeth Venema, Nature Machine Intelligence, Germany
Natacha Cruz, Nature Research, USA
Hannah Mertens, DZNE, Germany
Invited speakers gender ratio: 8 Women: 9 Men (47%)
Estimated base rate of women in the field: 23.8%*
BWN rating: 5 (i.e. more than 2 stdev above base rate)
*Method of estimation: previously established base rate of women in the fields of neurally inspired machine learning and neural structure and brain modelling
Organisers:
Nencki Institute of Experimental Biology
Invited speakers gender ratio: 7 Women: 4 Men (70%)
Estimated base rate of women in the field: 32%*
BWN rating: 5 (i.e. 2 or more standard deviations above base rate)
*Method of estimation: previously established base rate of women in the neuroscience field
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.
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.
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