Conference Watch

Neuroscience Methods in Human-Robot Interaction

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IEEE RO-MAN workshop on Neuroscience Methods in Human-Robot Interaction

Organizers: Burcu A. Urgen, Ayse P. Saygin and Emily S. Cross
Invited speaker gender ratio: 4 Women : 1 Man (80%)(or 50% if we don’t count the organizers as invited speakers)
Estimated* base rate of women in the field: 15%??

*Method of estimation: we are not sure how to estimate the base rate in this subfield. In general there is a dearth of women in robotics, for instance, the proportion of women faculty in CMU’s Robotics Institute is a mere 6.7% (although women make up 15% of the affiliated faculty of the institute and 19% of its postdoctoral fellows) so this has got to be an all time high.

How does the brain work?

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How does the brain work?
This workshop will bring together leading experimentalists and leading theoreticians in neuroscience to openly discuss ideas for a common brain theory

Organizers: Per Roland and Henrik Lindén
Invited speaker gender ratio: 6 Women : 6 Men (50%)
Estimated* base rate of women in the field: 24%

*Method of estimation: Base rate of women in top neuroscience departments

International Summer School on Maps in the Brain

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International Summer School on Maps in the Brain

Organizers: Charl Linssen and Tansu Celikel
Invited speaker gender ratio: 0 Women : 10 Men (0%)
Estimated* base rate of women in the field: 34%

*Method of estimation: Since the course is advertised as bringing together “the world’s leading scientists in spatial, cognitive and functional maps”, we searched NIH RePORTER with text keywords (“spatial” OR “cognitive” OR “functional”) AND “map” AND (“neuroscience” OR “brain”), and counted the number of women PI’s in pages 6 & 18 of the 24 pages of results

6th Motivation and Cognitive Control (MCC) symposium

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6th Motivation and Cognitive Control (MCC) symposium

Organizers: Martin O’Neill , Redmond O’Connell, Jerome Sallet, Steve Kennerley, and Verity Brown
Invited speaker gender ratio: 6 Females : 18 Males (25%)
Estimated* base rate of females in the field: 33%
[an artist in residence at MCC 2016, Claire Anderson, will be exploring gender bias in research in her project in residence at the conference]

*Method of estimation: NIH RePORTER with text keyword “motivation” OR “cognitive control”

International Titisee Conference: Building tools for quantifying brain and behaviour

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International Titisee Conference: Building tools for quantifying brain and behaviour

Organizers: Jason Kerr, Loren Looger & Richard Hahnenloser
Invited speaker gender ratio: 2 Females : 37 Males (7%)
Estimated* base rate of women in the field: 20%

*Method of estimation: NIH RePORTER with text keywords (“method development” OR “tool development”) AND “neuroscience”, count number of women PI’s in all 25 unique results