Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory 2021 Winter Conference: Development and 3D Modeling of the Human Brain

Development and 3D Modeling of the Human Brain Conference

Organisers:
Guo-li Ming, University of Pennsylvania – Perelman School of Medicine
Sergiu Pasca, Stanford University

Invited speakers gender ratio: 9 Women: 12 Men (43%)
Estimated base rate of women in the field: 32.5%*
BWN rating: 4

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

The Brain Prize 2021: Seminar Series

The Brain Prize 2021: Seminar Series

Organisers:
Martin Meyer
Gitte Grove Stig
Louise Bruun

Invited speakers gender ratio: 4 Women: 8 Men (33%)
Estimated base rate of women in the field: 38%*
BWN rating: 2

*Method of estimation: Using previously calculated base rate of women in pain neuroscience research.

Current and Future Applications of Network and Control Sciences for Psychiatry – Summer School 2021, University of Tubingen

Current and Future Applications of Network and Control Sciences for Psychiatry

Organisers:
Jasper Bischofberger
Peter Dayan
Birgit Derntl
Andreas J. Fallgatter
Marc Hirt
Hamidreza Jamalabadi

Invited speakers gender ratio: 3 Women: 12 Men (20%)
Estimated base rate of women in the field: 29%*
BWN rating: 2

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

Complex Networks 2021: The 10th Annual Conference on Complex Networks and their Applications

Complex Networks 2021: 10th Annual Conference on Complex Networks and their Applications

Organisers: Rosa Benito, Hocine Cherifi, & Esteban Moro (General Chairs)
Chantal Cherifi, Luis Rocha, & Marta Sales-Pardo (Program Chairs)

Invited speaker gender ratio: 2 Women: 4 Men (33%)

Estimated base rate of women in the field: 15.1%*

BWN rating: 4

*Method of estimation: previously established base rate of women in neurally-inspired machine learning.

Spatio-temporal Aspects of Embodied Predictive Processing (ICDL Workshop StEPP’21) – Workshop

Spatio-temporal Aspects of Embodied Predictive Processing (ICDL Workshop StEPP’21)

Organisers: Stefan Heinrich, Shingo Murata, Yukie Nagai & Yuichi Yamashita
Invited speaker gender ratio: 1 Woman: 3 Men (25%)
Estimated base rate of women in the field: 20.5%*
BWN rating: 3

*Method of estimation: as the workshop covered multiple topics, a combination of base rates for computational neuroscience and neurally-inspired machine learning was used.

Unifying Neuroscience and Artificial Intelligence in Quebec (UNIQUE) – Student Symposium (USS 2021)

Unifying Neuroscience and Artificial Intelligence in Quebec (UNIQUE) – Student Symposium (USS 2021)

Organizers: Hugo Jourde & Annabelle Harvey (Program Chairs)
Invited speaker gender ratio: 3 Women: 6 Men (33%)
Estimated base rate of women in the field: 15%*
BWN rating: 4

*Method of estimation: previously established base rate of women in neurally-inspired machine learning.

2nd International Workshop on Non-Invasive Brain Stimulation (NIBS)

2nd International Workshop on Non-Invasive Brain Stimulation (NIBS)

Organizers: Alexander Opitz, Ivan Alekseichuk, Axel Thielscher
Invited speaker gender ratio: 8 Women: 8 Men (50%)
Estimated base rate of women in the field: 28%*
BWN rating: 4

*Method of estimation: We searched NIH RePORTER with keyword non-invasive brain stimulation, and then counted the ratio of women among the unique researchers using our python script.