6th Workshop on Biological Distributed Algorithms
Organizers: Yuval Emek, Amos Korman and Saket Navlakha
Sponsor: European Research Council
Invited speaker gender ratio: 1 Woman : 4 Men (20%)
Estimated* base rate of women in the field: 15%
*Method of estimation: Previously established base rate of women in neurally inspired machine learning.
12th Annual Canadian Neuroscience Meeting
Organizers: Shernaz Bamji and Paul Frankland
Sponsors: see here
Invited speaker gender ratio: 4 Women : 4 Men (50%)
Estimated* base rate of women in the field: 32%
*Method of estimation: previously established base rate of women in neuroscience.
**At the time of posting, there was an error in our base rate using Society for Neuroscience registration data; this has now been corrected.
2018 Context and Episodic Memory Symposium (CEMS)
Speaker gender ratio: 9 Women : 19 Men (32%)
Data Blitz gender ratio: 7 Women : 7 Men (50%)
Estimated* base rate of women in the field: 42%
*Method of estimation: We searched NIH RePORTER with keyword “episodic memory” and then counted the ratio of women among the unique researchers in all 10 pages of results using our python script. Search originally performed in September 2017.
RuCCS/Psychology Computational Neuroscience Conference: Computation, Cognition and the Brain
Organizers: Randy Gallistel, Brian McLaughlin, Dimitri Metaxas, Sara Pixley, and David Vicario
Speaker gender ratio: 3 Women : 11 Men (21%)
Estimated* base rate of women in the field: 17-20%
*Method of estimation: Previously established base rate of women in computational neuroscience.
Organizers: see here
Invited speaker gender ratio: 11 Women : 11 Men (50%)
Estimated* base rate of women in the field: 39%
*Method of estimation: previously established base rate of women in neuroscience.
25th Joint Symposium on Neural Computation
Organizers: Thanos Siapas, Terry Sejnowski, Gert Cauwenberghs, Bartlett Mel, Jeff Krichmar, Tad Blair
Sponsors: see here
Invited speaker gender ratio: 1 Woman : 9 Men (10%)
Estimated* base rate of women in the field: 17-20%
*Method of estimation: Previously established base rate of women in computational neuroscience.
FENS Satellite Meeting on “Receptive Fields: Analysis, Models and Applications”
Sponsors: see here
Keynote speaker gender ratio: 2 Women : 6 Men (25%)
Estimated* base rate of women in the field: 16%
*Method of estimation: We searched NIH RePORTER with keyword Receptive AND Fields and then counted the ratio of women among the unique researchers in all 4 pages of results using our python script.
Transylvanian Experimental Neuroscience Summer School 2018
Organizers: Raul Mureşan, Adam Kampff & Florin Albeanu
Funders: see here
Lecturer gender ratio: 3 Women : 21 Men (13%)
Estimated* base rate of women in the field: 32%
*Method of estimation: previously established base rate of women in neuroscience.
**At the time of posting, there was an error in our base rate using Society for Neuroscience registration data; this has now been corrected.
Organizers: Jakob Macke, Bettina Schnell, Johannes Seelig, Marcel Oberlaender
Speaker gender ratio: 6 Women : 12 Men (33%)
Estimated* base rate of women in the field: 32%
*Method of estimation: previously established base rate of women in neuroscience.
**At the time of posting, there was an error in our base rate using Society for Neuroscience registration data; this has now been corrected.
PRNI 2018: 8th International Workshop on Pattern Recognition in Neuroimaging
Organizers: Annabel Chen, Cuntai Guan, Jong-Hwan Lee, Nitish V. Thakor
Sponsors: see here
Keynote speaker gender ratio: 2 Women : 3 Men (40%)
Estimated* base rate of women in the field: 33%
*Method of estimation: We searched NIH RePORTER with keyword Pattern AND recognition AND (neuroimaging OR MRI OR fMRI OR DTI OR EEG) and then counted the ratio of women among the unique researchers in all 5 pages of results using our python script.
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