Brain Connectivity Workshop 2019 (BCW 2019)
Organizers: Marc Tittgemeyer, Michael Breakspeare, Viktor Jirsa
Sponsors: see here
Speaker gender ratio: 5 Women : 19 Men (21%)
Estimated* base rate of women in the field: 42%
*Method of estimation: We searched NIH RePORTER with keyword “brain connectivity” and then counted the ratio of women among the unique researchers in all 7 pages of results using our python script.
7th Baltic-Nordic School on Neuroinformatics (BNNI 2019)
Organizers:Peter Jedlicka, Ausra Saudargiene, Marja-Leena Linne, Jochen Triesch, Martin Mittag, Herbert Ehrenberger, Susanne Steiner
Sponsors: see here
Faculty gender ratio: 6 women : 13 men (32%)
Estimated* base rate of women in the field: 33%
*Method of estimation: We searched NIH RePORTER with keyword informatics AND (brain OR neuro) and then counted the ratio of women among the unique researchers in all 44 pages using our python script.
13th Annual Canadian Neuroscience Meeting
Organizers: Ruth Slack and Paul Frankland
Sponsors: see here
Total speaker gender ratio: 30 Women : 34 Men (47%)
Invited speaker gender ratio: 2 Women : 5 Men (29%)
Plenary symposia speaker gender ratio: 5 Women : 4 Men (56%)
Parallel symposia speaker gender ratio: 23 Women : 25 Men (48%)
Estimated* base rate of women in the field: 31%
*Method of estimation: previously established base rate of women in neuroscience.
Organizers: Florian Berger, Claudia Jou, Christoph Kirst and Silvana Valtcheva
Sponsors: see here
Invited speaker gender ratio: 3 women : 1 man (75%)
Estimated* base rate of women in the field: 43%
*Method of estimation: We searched NIH RePORTER with keyword neurobiology, narrowing down to only Eastern US states and then counted the ratio of women among the unique researchers in all 31 pages using our python script.
Ninth International Symposium on Biology of Decision Making
Organizers: see here
Partners and funders: see here
Speaker gender ratio: 12 women : 13 men (48%)
Estimated* base rate of women in the field: 30%
*Method of estimation: We searched NIH RePORTER with keyword biology AND “decision making”and then counted the ratio of women among the unique researchers in all 12 pages of results using our python script. Search originally performed in March 2018.
Cognitive Computational Neuroscience Meeting 2019 (CCN 2019)
Organizers: Nikolaus Kriegeskorte (Chair), Danielle Bassett, Daphna Shohamy, Konrad Kording, Ralf Haefner
Keynote speaker gender ratio: 3 women : 4 men (43%)
Estimated* base rate of women in the field: 30%
*Method of estimation: We searched NIH RePORTER with keyword (cognitive OR cognition) AND (computation OR computational) AND neuro and then counted the ratio of women among the unique researchers in all 9 pages of results using our python script.
2019 Summer School on Cognitive Foundations of Economic Behavior
Organizers: Andrew Caplin, Ernst Fehr, and Michael Woodford
Invited faculty gender ratio: 1 Woman : 8 Men (11%)
Estimated* base rate of women in the field: 37-39%
*Method of estimation: previously established base rate of women in neuroeconomics.
Cajal Course: Interacting with Neural Circuits 2019
Organizers: Michael Häusser, Leopoldo Petreanu and Menno Witter
Sponsors: see here
Faculty gender ratio: 5 women : 21 men (19%)
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.
Brains, Minds and Machines Summer Course 2019
Organizers: Gabriel Kreiman, Boris Katz and Tomaso Poggio
Speaker gender ratio: 5 Women : 26 Men (16%)
Estimated* base rate of women in the field: 15%
*Method of estimation: Previously established base rate of women in neurally inspired machine learning based on registration for NIPS 2016.
CAJAL Course in Computational Neuroscience 2019
Organizers: Brent Doiron, Maria Geffen, Jakob Macke, Joe Paton
Faculty gender ratio: 7 women : 11 men (39%)
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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