Barcelona Summer School for Advanced Modeling of Behavior

Organizers: Alex Hyafil, Christopher Summerfield, Klaus Wimmer
Sponsors: Psychonomic Society, William K. and Katherine W. Estes Fund, Sociedad Española de Neurociencia, Centre de Recerca Matemática.
Speaker gender ratio: 2 Women : 6 Men (25%) 
Estimated* base rate of women in the field: 29%

*Method of estimation: We searched NIH RePORTER with keywords modeling AND computational AND neuroscience AND behavior and then counted the ratio of women among the unique researchers in all 8 pages of results using our python script.

Advanced Course 2019: Learning and Memory

Organizers: Susumu Tonegawa and Sheena Josselyn
Faculty gender ratio: 2 Women : 5 Men (29%)
Estimated* base rate of women in the field: 38%

*Method of estimation: We searched NIH RePORTER with keyword (learning OR memory) AND neuro and then counted the ratio of women among the unique researchers in all 75 pages of results found using our python script. Search originally performed in December 2017.

1^st Summer School of Interdisciplinary Research on
Brain Network Dynamics

Organizers: Albrecht Haase, Jorge Jovicich, Ludovico Minati, Lorenzo Pavesi

Sponsors: Brandy Brain Network Dynamics, Center for Mind/Brain Sciences, BackUp neuromorphic photonics and the brain, European Research Council
Speaker gender ratio: 3 women : 14 men (21%)
Estimated* base rate of women in the field: 45%

*Method of estimation: We searched NIH RePORTER with keyphrase (“network dynamics”) and then counted the ratio of women among the unique researchers in all 5 pages of results using our python script.

NEURO2019 (joint meeting of the 42^nd Annual Meeting of the Japan Neuroscience Society and the 62^nd Annual Meeting of the Japanese Society for Neurochemistry)

Organizers: Yoshihiro Yoshihara and Hitoshi Hashimoto
Sponsors: see here
Invited speaker gender ratio: 8 Women : 21 Men (28%)
Estimated* base rate of women in the field: 31%

*Method of estimation: previously established base rate of women faculty in neuroscience.

CNS2019 Workshop on Methods of Information Theory in Computational Neuroscience

Organizer: Lubomir Kostal
Sponsor: Entropy
Speaker gender ratio: 1 woman : 8 men (11%)
Estimated* base rate of women in the field: 17-20%

*Method of estimation: Previously established base rate of women in computational neuroscience.

European Workshop on Cognitive Neuropsychology 2019

Organizers: Franco Denes and Carlo Semenza
Total speaker gender ratio: 6 Women : 8 Men (42%)
Plenary speaker gender ratio: 0 Women : 2 Men (0%)
Symposia:
Organizers – 2 Women : 2 Men (50%)
Speakers – 6 Women : 6 Men (50%)
Discussants – 0 Women : 4 Men (0%)
Estimated* base rate of women in the field: 37-52%

*Method of estimation: Previously established base rate of women in cognitive neuroscience.