EMBO Workshop: Mechanisms of neuronal remodelling

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March 11-March 14, 2023
Organisers: Meital Oren-Suissa, Lukas Neukomm, Simon Hippenmeyer

Speaker gender ratio: 14 Women: 10 Men (58%)
Estimated base rate of women in the field: 32.5%*
BWN rating: 5, more than two standard deviations above base rate

*Method of estimation: previously established base rate of women in the neural structure and brain modelling field

CNS 2023: 30th Anniversary Meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society

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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

COSYNE 2023

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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

IEEE Brain Discovery Neurotechnology Workshop: Brain, Mind, and Body: Cognitive Neuroengineering for Health and Wellness

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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

AI, Neuroscience and Hardware: From Neural to Artificial Systems and Back Again

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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

Harvard University’s Women in Psychology: Trends in Psychology Summit 2021

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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.