Eighth International Symposium on Biology of Decision Making
Organizers: Kenji Doya, Lesley Fellows, Mehdi Khamassi, Etienne Koechlin, Mathias Pessiglione, Chris Summerfield, Miriam Teschl
Invited speaker gender ratio: 10 women : 15 men (40%)
Estimated* base rate of women in the field: 30%
*Method of estimation: We searched NIH RePORTER with keyword biology AND “decision making”and then counted the ratio of women among the unique researchers in all 12 pages of results using our python script.
8th Annual Computational Sensory-Motor Neuroscience Summer School (CoSMo 2018)
Organizers: Gunnar Blohm, Konrad Körding and Paul Schrater
Sponsors: NIH (R25), Brain Canada Foundation, CAPnet and NSF (DREAM)
Lecturer gender ratio: 2 women : 7 men (22%)
Estimated* base rate of women in the field: 21%
*Method of estimation: We searched NIH RePORTER with keyword (Computational AND Sensory-Motor) OR (Computational AND Sensory AND Motor) 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 February 2017.
Organizers: Jérémie Barral, Florian Berger, Ben Urban, Kanaka Rajan, and Christoph Kirst
Invited speaker gender ratio: 2 women : 2 men (50%)
Estimated* base rate of women 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. Search originally performed in February 2017.
CAJAL Course in Computational Neuroscience 2018
Organizers: Joe Paton, Christian Machens and Jakob Macke
Faculty gender ratio: 6 women : 15 men (29%)
Estimated* base rate of women in the field: 17-20%
*Method of estimation: Previously established base rate of women in computational neuroscience.
2018 International Computational Psychiatry Course
Organizers: Frederike Petzschner & Klaas Enno Stephan
Speaker gender ratio: 4 Women : 18 Men (18%)
Estimated* base rate of women in the field: 29%
*Method of estimation: previously established base rate of women in computational psychiatry.
Organizers: see here
Sponsors: see here
Speaker gender ratio: 4 Women : 15 Men (21%)
Estimated* base rate of women in the field: 24%
*Method of estimation: Previously established base rate of women in neuroscience.
COSYNE 2018 Workshop: Closed-loop control of neural systems and circuits for scientific discovery
Organizers: Christopher Rozell, Garrett Stanley
Speaker gender ratio: 3 Women : 7 Men (30%)
Estimated* base rate of women in the field: 20%
*Method of estimation: We searched NIH RePORTER with keyword closed AND loop AND neural and then counted the ratio of women among the unique researchers in all 4 pages of results found using our python script.
ICCM Organizers: Ion Juvina, Joseph Houpt, and Christopher Myers
MathPsych Organizers: Joseph Austerweil and Joseph Houpt
Invited speaker gender ratio: 4 women : 0 men (100%)
Estimated* base rate of women in the field: 17-20%
*Method of estimation: Previously established base rate of women in computational neuroscience.
Organizers: Caswell Barry, Tim Behrens, Freyja Olafsdottir and Mona Garvert
Sponsors: Google DeepMind, eLife, Brain: a Journal of Neurology, Gatsby Computational Neuroscience Unit
Speaker and chair gender ratio: 10 Women : 12 Men (45%)
Estimated* base rate of women in the field: 19%
*Method of estimation: We searched NIH RePORTER with keyword grid AND cell and then counted the ratio of women among the unique researchers in all 5 pages of results found using our python script.
2018 MBL Methods in Computational Neuroscience Course
Organizers: Stephen Baccus and Xiao Jing Wang
Sponsors: National Institute of Mental Health, National Institute for Neurological Disorders and Stroke, the National Institute for Drug Abuse, NIH, Simons Collaboration on the Global Brain, and the Organization for Computational Neurosciences
Invited speaker gender ratio: 7 women : 24 men (23%)
Estimated* base rate of women in the field: 17-20%
*Method of estimation: Previously established base rate of women in computational neuroscience.
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