Workshop on Efficient Coding and Resource-Limited Cognition
Organizers: Michael Woodford and Rava Azeredo da Silveira
Speaker gender ratio: 2 women : 6 men (25%)*
Estimated** base rate of women in the field: 17-20%
*Note that the two women speakers are PhD students, whereas all men speakers are faculty. This further exacerbates the imbalance of men and women speakers.
**Method of estimation: Previously established base rate of women in computational neuroscience.
Dynamics of the brain: temporal aspects of computation
Organizers: Gilles Laurent & Ila Fiete
Sponsors: Federation of European Neuroscience Societies and The Brain Prize
Speaker gender ratio: 8 women : 16 men (33%)
Estimated* base rate of women in the field: 17-18%
*Method of estimation: Previously established base rate of women in computational neuroscience, specifically the numbers based on attendance at COSYNE (Computational and Systems Neuroscience) 2016.
IGSN / SFB 874 Conference: Molecular and Neural Correlates of Memory and Cognition*
Organizer: Denise Manahan-Vaughan
Speaker gender ratio: 11 Women : 0 Men (100%)
Estimated** base rate of women in the field: 37-52%
*The NeuroNexxt initiative, a platform for female neuroscientists, was launched at this meeting.
**Method of estimation: Previously established base rate of women in cognitive neuroscience.
2019 Systems Neuroscience Spring School
Statics and Dynamics of Neural Systems, March 11th-13rd, Kyoto
Director: Shin Ishii
Organizers: Ken Nakae, Hidetoshi Urakubo, Hiroshi Higashi, Yasuhiro Tanaka, Hideaki Shimazaki
Sponsors: Japanese Neural Network Society, Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research on Innovative Areas “Brain information dynamics underlying multi-area interconnectivity and parallel processing”, Japan Agency for Medical Research and Development “Brain Mapping by Integrated Neurotechnologies for Disease Studies
Speaker gender ratio: 0 women : 7 men (0%)
Estimated* base rate of women in the field: 42%
*Method of estimation: We searched NIH RePORTER with keyword systems AND neuroscience and then counted the ratio of women among the unique researchers in all 16 pages using our python script. Search originally carried out in April 2019.
Organizers: see here
Invited speaker gender ratio: 13 Women : 10 Men (57%)
Estimated* base rate of women in the field: 31%
*Method of estimation: previously established base rate of women faculty in neuroscience.
2019 Computational Approaches to Memory and Plasticity (CAMP) at NCBS, Bangalore
Organizers: Arvind Kumar, Rishikesh Narayanan, Suhita Nadkarni & Upinder Bhalla
Instructor gender ratio: 1 woman : 5 men (17%)
Estimated* base rate of women in the field: 17-20%
*Method of estimation: Previously established base rate of women in computational neuroscience.
Maryland Neuroimaging Retreat 2019
Transylvanian Experimental Neuroscience Summer School 2019
Organizers: Raul Mureşan, Adam Kampff & Florin Albeanu
Funders: see here
Lecturer gender ratio: 7 Women : 18 Men (28%)
Estimated* base rate of women in the field: 31%
*Method of estimation: previously established base rate of women in neuroscience.
Organizers: Farzad Farkhooi, Rainer Engelken, Jonathan Kadmon, Viola Priesemann
Sponsors: Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience Göttingen, Max Planck Society and Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft
Speaker gender ratio: 5 women : 10 men (33%)
Estimated* base rate of women in the field: 17-18%
*Method of estimation: Previously established base rate of women in computational neuroscience, specifically the numbers based on attendance at COSYNE (Computational and Systems Neuroscience) 2016.
Organizers: Ahmed El Hady, Yonatan Loewenstein and David Hansel
Sponsors: see here
Faculty gender ratio: 2 Women : 6 Men (25%)
Estimated* base rate of women in the field: 17-20%
*Method of estimation: Previously established base rate of women in computational neuroscience.
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