Unifying Neuroscience and Artificial Intelligence in Quebec (UNIQUE) – Student Symposium (USS 2021)

Organizers: Hugo Jourde & Annabelle Harvey (Program Chairs)
Invited speaker gender ratio: 3 Women: 6 Men (33%)
Estimated base rate of women in the field: 15%*
BWN rating: 4

*Method of estimation: previously established base rate of women in neurally-inspired machine learning.

2nd International Workshop on Non-Invasive Brain Stimulation (NIBS)

Organizers: Alexander Opitz, Ivan Alekseichuk, Axel Thielscher
Invited speaker gender ratio: 8 Women: 8 Men (50%)
Estimated base rate of women in the field: 28%*
BWN rating: 4

*Method of estimation: We searched NIH RePORTER with keyword non-invasive brain stimulation, and then counted the ratio of women among the unique researchers using our python script.

Workshop: Spatial Brain Dynamics

Organizer: Copenhagen Initiative
Sponsor: Lundbeck foundation
Invited speaker gender ratio: 2 Women: 8 Men (20%)
Estimated base rate of women in the field: 13%*
BWN rating: 3

*Method of estimation: We searched NIH RePORTER with keyword neurodynamics, and then counted the ratio of women among the unique researchers using our python script.

WWNeuRise Seminar Series: Naturalistic Behavior

Organizers: Ellen Boven, Christina Buetfering, Lucie Descamps, Gily Ginosar, Loreen Hertäg, Joram Keijser & Bill Podlaski
Invited speaker gender ratio: 4 Women: 4 Men (50%)
Estimated base rate of women in the field: 39%*
BWN rating: 3

*Method of estimation: We searched NIH RePORTER with keywords naturalistic behavior, and then counted the ratio of women among the unique researchers using our python script.

Theoretical and Computational Neuroscience Summer School (CNeuro 2021)

Organizers: Rava Aceredo da Silverira, Stella Christie, Sen Song, Louis Tao, Xiaoqin Wang & Quan Wen
Invited speaker gender ratio: 2 Women: 4 Men (33%)
Estimated base rate of women in the field: 26%*
BWN rating: 3

*Method of estimation: previously established base rate of women in computational neuroscience.

Bernstein SmartSteps Spring Talks 2021

Organizers: Julijana Gjorgjieva, Laura Bella Naumann, Katharina Wilmes & Anja Dorrn
Invited speaker gender ratio: 2 Women: 4 Men (33%)
Estimated base rate of women in the field: 26%*
BWN rating: 3

*Method of estimation: previously established base rate of women in computational neuroscience.

30th Annual Computational Neuroscience Meeting (CNS*2021)

Organizer: Christiane Linster (Program Chair)
Invited speaker gender ratio: 2 Women: 2 Men (50%)
Estimated base rate of women in the field: 26%*
BWN rating: 4

*Method of estimation: previously established base rate of women in computational neuroscience.

Innovators in Neuroscience: From Molecules to Mind

Organizers: Paul Kenny, Kara Simone Bagot, Bianca Jones Marline & Stavros Lomvardas
Invited speaker gender ratio: 5 Women: 4 Men (56%)
Estimated base rate of women in the field: 43%*
BWN rating: 3

*Method of estimation: previously established base rate of women in neuroscience.