18th International Multisensory Research Forum (IMRF)
Sponsors: Vanderbilt Brain Institute, Plexon Inc and Electrical Geodesics, Inc.
Invited speaker gender ratio: 0 women : 3 men (0%)
Estimated* base rate of females in the field: 37%
*Method of estimation: We searched NIH RePORTER with keyword (multisensory OR multi-sensory OR cross-modal) AND perception and then counted the ratio of women among the unique researchers in all 68 results using our python script.
40th European Conference on Visual Perception ECVP 2017
Organizers: Guido Hesselmann, Marianne Maertens, Florian Ostendorf, Martin Rolfs & Philipp Sterzer
Sponsors: still being confirmed, see here
Plenary speaker gender ratio: 2 women : 2 men (50%)
Estimated* base rate of females in the field: 32%
*Method of estimation: We searched NIH RePORTER with keyword visual perception and then counted the ratio of women among the unique researchers in all 29 pages using our python script.
CAJAL Course in Computational Neuroscience 2017
Organizers: Gilles Laurent, Christian Machens and Jakob Macke
Invited speaker gender ratio: 8 women : 13 men (38%)
Estimated* base rate of females in the field: 17-20%
*Method of estimation: Previously established base rate of women in computational neuroscience.
Systems & Computational Neuroscience Down Under (SCiNDU) 2017
Speaker gender ratio: 3 women : 5 men (38%)
Estimated* base rate of females in the field:17-18%
*Method of estimation: Previously established base rate of women in computational neuroscience. Because of the similar conference topics, we specifically used the numbers based on attendance at COSYNE (Computational and Systems Neuroscience) 2016.
International Conference on Vision in the Real World
Organizer: Laurence Harris
Speaker gender ratio: 4 women : 15 men (21%)
Estimated* base rate of females in the field: 30%
*Method of estimation: We searched NIH RePORTER with keyword vision science and then counted the ratio of women among the unique researchers in all 54 pages using our python script.
3rd cuttingEEG Symposium
Total speaker gender ratio (plenary + workshops): 6 women : 15 men (29%)
Plenary speaker gender ratio: 3 women : 9 men (25%)
Estimated* base rate of females in the field: 30%
*Method of estimation: We searched NIH RePORTER with keyword EEG OR Electroencephalography and then counted the ratio of women among the unique researchers in all 32 pages using our python script.
Winter Conference On Neural Plasticity
Organizers: Ted Petit and Janelle LeBoutillier
Speaker gender ratio: 15 women : 23 men (39%)
Estimated* base rate of females in the field: 45%
*Method of estimation: We searched NIH RePORTER with keyword neural plasticity and counted the number of women among unique PIs on pages 2, 29, 57, 81 and 82 of 82 results pages.
Organizers: Christoph Kirst, Gonzalo Otazu, Nicolas Renier, Florian Berger and Jérémie Barral
Invited speaker gender ratio: 2 women : 2 men (50%)
Estimated* base rate of females in the field: 36%
*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 30 pages using our python script.
ESMTB-EMS & DSIN Summerschool Mathematical Neuroscience
Organizers: Jacob Østergaard and Susanne Ditlevsen
Sponsors: see here
Invited lecturer gender ratio: 2 women : 3 men (40%)
Estimated* base rate of females in the field: 17-20%
*Method of estimation: Previously established base rate of women in computational neuroscience.
Dynamical Network States, Criticality and Cortical Function
Organizers: Udo Ernst and Nergis Tömen
Speaker gender ratio: 4 women : 16 men (20%)
Estimated* base rate of females in the field: 17%
*Method of estimation: We searched NIH RePORTER with keyword (“cortical physiology” OR “cortical structure” OR “cortical dynamics” OR “criticality”) and counted the ratio of women among the unique researchers in all 42 results using our python script.
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