Reinforcement Learning and Decision Making (RLDM2017)
Organizers: Emma Brunskill and Nathaniel Daw
Sponsors: see here
Invited speaker gender ratio (incl. tutorial speakers): 9 Women : 10 Men (47%)
Invited speaker gender ratio: 7 Women : 8 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
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.
Statistical Analysis of Neural Data (SAND8)
Organizers: Emery Brown, Elizabeth Buffalo, Rob Kass, Liam Paninski, Sri Sarma and Jonathan Victor
Invited speaker gender ratio: 9 Women : 10 Men (47%)
Estimated* base rate of females in the field: 17-20%
*Method of estimation: Previously established base rate of women in computational neuroscience.
Deep Learning Workshop @ ICML’16
Organizers: Antoine Bordes, Kyunghyun Cho, Emily Denton, Rob Fergus and Nando de Freitas
Sponsor: Google DeepMind
Invited speaker gender ratio: 4 Women : 6 Men (40%)
Estimated* base rate of females in the field: 15%
*Method of estimation: Previously established base rate of women in neurally inspired machine learning.
15th Annual Molecular and Cellular Cognition Society Symposium
Organizers: Li-Huei Tsai, Bong-Kiun Kang and Ted Abel
Sponsors: Science Signaling (AAAS), Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press (CSHL), Neurobiology of Learning and Memory (Elsevier) GENENTECH and The Picower Institute for Learning and Memory
Invited speaker gender ratio: 10 Women : 7 Men (59%)
Estimated* base rate of females in the field: 33%
*Method of estimation: We searched NIH RePORTER with keyword “(molecular OR cellular) AND cognition” and counted the ratio of women among the unique researchers in pages 1, 19, 37, 54 and 71 of 71 results pages.
Australian Research Council Centre for Integrative Brain Function – 2016 Science Meeting “Painting the Big Picture”
Speaker gender ratio: 6 Women: 6 Men (50%)
Estimated* base rate of females in the field: 24%
*Method of estimation: Previously established base rate of women in neuroscience.
Computational and Systems Neuroscience 2017
Organizers: Anne Churchland, Tony Zador, Alex Pouget and Zach Mainen
Program Chairs: Ilana Witten and Eric Shea-Brown
Invited speaker gender ratio: 7 Women : 7 Men (50%)
Estimated* base rate of females in the field: 17-18%
As COSYNE initiated some of the wider efforts to correctly represent women in neuroscience conferences, indirectly leading to the creation of BiasWatchNeuro, we are especially happy to report that for the first time this conference has achieved gender parity, exceeding the base rate of women in the field and matching the base rate of women in the world.
*Method of estimation: Base rate of women in computational neuroscience previously established through attendance at COSYNE conferences
Organizers: Michael Brecht (local scientific organizer), Richard Kempter (program chair)
Funded by: German Federal Ministry of Education and Research, Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, Einstein Center for Neurosciences Berlin
Invited speaker gender ratio: 5 Women : 7 Men (42%)
Estimated* base rate of females in the field: 17-18%
*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.
IEEE RO-MAN workshop on Neuroscience Methods in Human-Robot Interaction
Organizers: Burcu A. Urgen, Ayse P. Saygin and Emily S. Cross
Invited speaker gender ratio: 4 Women : 1 Man (80%)(or 50% if we don’t count the organizers as invited speakers)
Estimated* base rate of women in the field: 15%??
*Method of estimation: we are not sure how to estimate the base rate in this subfield. In general there is a dearth of women in robotics, for instance, the proportion of women faculty in CMU’s Robotics Institute is a mere 6.7% (although women make up 15% of the affiliated faculty of the institute and 19% of its postdoctoral fellows) so this has got to be an all time high.
How does the brain work?
This workshop will bring together leading experimentalists and leading theoreticians in neuroscience to openly discuss ideas for a common brain theory
Organizers: Per Roland and Henrik Lindén
Invited speaker gender ratio: 6 Women : 6 Men (50%)
Estimated* base rate of women in the field: 24%
*Method of estimation: Base rate of women in top neuroscience departments
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