3rd International Brain Stimulation Conference
Organizers: Mark S. George and Harold A. Sackeim
Sponsors: see here
Invited speaker gender ratio: 3 Women : 3 Men (50%)
Estimated* base rate of women in the field: 44%
*Method of estimation: Previously established base rate of women in brain stimulation.
Complex Systems in Neuroscience: Bridging Theory and Experiment
Organizers: Hannah Bos, James Hengenius, Chengcheng Huang, Ryan Phillips, Yury Sokolov, Rashid Williams-García, Dan Wilson
Sponsors: see here
Speaker gender ratio: 4 Women : 8 Men (33%)
Estimated* base rate of women in the field: 17-20%
*Method of estimation: Previously established base rate of women in computational neuroscience.
40th International Engineering in Medicine and Biology Conference (EMBC 2018)
Organizers: see here
Sponsors: see here
Total keynote speaker gender ratio: 2 women : 16 men (11%)
Plenary keynote speaker gender ratio: 2 women : 3 men (40%)
Theme keynote speaker gender ratio: 0 women : 13 men (0%)
Estimated* base rate of women in the field: 39%
*Method of estimation: Percentage of doctoral degrees awarded to women in biomedical engineering in 2017 as reported by ASEE “Engineering by the Numbers“, by Brian L. Yoder, Ph.D.
ESI Systems Neuroscience Conference 2018 (ESI SyNC)
Organizers: Wolf Singer, Pascal Fries, André Castro, Tommaso Tosato, Ana Broggini, Miriam Mueller, Renata Vajda
Speaker gender ratio: 4 women : 6 men (40%)
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.
11th FENS Forum of Neuroscience
Organizers: see here
Sponsors: see here
Keynote speaker gender ratio: 14 Women : 11 Men (56%)
Estimated* base rate of women in the field: 39%
*Method of estimation: previously established base rate of women in neuroscience.
2018 Gordon Research Conference: Neurobiology of Cognition
Organizers: David A. Leopold and Jennifer M. Groh (Chairs) and David J. Freedman and Ila Fiete (Vice Chairs)
Sponsors: see here
Invited speaker gender ratio: 18 Women : 22 Men (45%)
Discussion leader gender ratio: 3 Women : 6 Men (33%)
Estimated* base rate of women in the field: 37-52%
*Method of estimation: Previously established base rate of women in cognitive neuroscience.
BNA2019 Festival of Neuroscience
Organizers: see here
Plenary speaker gender ratio: 5 Women : 4 Men (56%)
Estimated* base rate of women in the field: 32%
*Method of estimation: previously established base rate of women in neuroscience.
Big Data Neuroscience Workshop 2018
Organizers: see here
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Keynote speaker gender ratio: 1 Woman : 3 Men (25%)
Estimated* base rate of women in the field: 17-20%
*Method of estimation: Previously established base rate of women in computational neuroscience.
Neural Oscillations in Speech and Language Processing
Organizers: Lars Meyer, Angela D. Friederici, Alessandro Tavano and David Poeppel
Invited speaker gender ratio: 8 Women : 14 Men (36%)
Estimated* base rate of women in the field: 44%
*Method of estimation: We searched NIH RePORTER with keyword (speech OR language or oscillations) and neuro and then counted the ratio of women among the unique researchers in all 13 pages of results using our python script.
Advanced Course Summer 2018: Cell Types, Coding and Cognition
Organizers: Christof Koch and Ed Lein
Faculty gender ratio: 3 Women : 4 Men (43%)
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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