24th Joint Symposium on Neural Computation
Sponsors: Brainchip and Qualcomm
Invited speaker gender ratio: 0 Women : 8 Men (0%)
Estimated* base rate of females in the field: 17-20%
*Method of estimation: Previously established base rate of women in computational neuroscience.
Machine Learning Meets Biology: Algorithms and Cortical Mechanisms
Organizers: Taylor Newton, Fabien Delalondre, Marc-Oliver Gewaltig, Eilif Muller, Henry Markram
Invited speaker gender ratio: 1 Woman : 11 Men (8%)
Estimated* base rate of females in the field: 15%
*Method of estimation: Previously established base rate of women in neurally inspired machine learning.
The 44th Naito Conference on Decision Making in the Brain
Organizers: Kenji Doya, Masamichi Sakagami, Shinsuke Shimojo, Hiromu Tanimoto and Makiko Yamada
Invited speaker gender ratio (incl. plenaries): 3 women: 19 men (14%)
Plenary speaker gender ratio: 0 women: 2 men (0%)
Estimated* base rate of females in the field: 37%
*Method of estimation: The topic of this conference is decision making in the brain so we used our established base rate of women in neuroeconomics (also called “decision neuroscience”).
London Computational Psychiatry Course 2017
Speaker gender ratio: 1 Woman : 7 Men (12.5%)
Estimated* base rate of women in the field: 29%
*Method of estimation: previously established base rate of women in computational psychiatry.
The 2017 International Conference on Brain Informatics (BI’17)
Organizers (see here): Bo Xu, Hanchuan Peng, Qingming Luo, Yi Zeng, Yong He, Jeanette Kotaleski, Maryann Martone, Ning Zhong, Jianzhou Yan, Shengfu Lu, An’an Li, Sen Song, Wenming Zheng, Tielin Zhang, Yang Yang, Shouyi Wang, Ning Zhong
Sponsors: see here
Keynote speaker gender ratio: 1 Woman : 6 Men (14%)
Estimated* base rate of females in the field: 17-20%
*Method of estimation: Previously established base rate of women in computational neuroscience.
8th G-Node Short Course on Neural Data Analysis
Organizers: Jan Grewe and Fabian Sinz
Sponsor: Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung (BMBF)
Faculty gender ratio: 1 Woman : 3 Men (25%)
Estimated* base rate of females in the field: 17-20%
*Method of estimation: Previously established base rate of women in computational neuroscience.
Neural Coding, Computation and Dynamics (NCCD) 2017
Organizers: Peter Latham, Srdjan Ostojic and Maneesh Sahani
Speaker gender ratio: 4 women : 4 men (50%)
Estimated* base rate of females in the field: 17-20%
*Method of estimation: Previously established base rate of women in computational neuroscience.
Computational Approaches to Memory and Plasticity (CAMP) at NCBS, Bangalore
Organizers: Upinder Bhalla, Arvind Kumar and Rishikesh Narayanan
Sponsor: National Centre for Biological Sciences
Instructor gender ratio: 2 women : 8 men (20%)
Estimated* base rate of females in the field: 17-20%
*Method of estimation: Previously established base rate of women in computational neuroscience.
4th Brain Imaging Center (BIC) Annual Symposium: Neuroimaging Throughout The Lifespan
Speaker gender ratio: 6 women : 3 men (67%)
Estimated* base rate of females in the field: 45%
*Method of estimation: We searched NIH RePORTER with keyword “ neuroimaging AND (lifespan OR aging OR age) ” and then counted the ratio of women among the unique researchers in all 42 pages of results using our python script.
New Directions in Motor Control Workshop
Organizers: David Hofmann, Sam Sober and Simon Sponberg
Sponsors: see here
Total (incl. keynote) speaker gender ratio: 4 women : 11 men (27%)
Keynote speaker gender ratio: 3 women : 4 men (43%)
Estimated* base rate of females in the field: 29%
*Method of estimation: We searched NIH RePORTER with keyword “motor control” and then counted the ratio of women among the unique researchers in all 14 pages of results using our python script.
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