2018 Summer School in Social Neuroscience and Neuroeconomics
Organizers: Gregory Samanez-Larkin, Molly Crockett, Jamil Zaki and Kendra Seaman
Faculty gender ratio: 8 Women : 7 Men (53%)
Estimated* base rate of females in the field: 37-39%
*Method of estimation: previously established base rate of women in neuroeconomics.
Eighth Summer School of the Centre of Neural Dynamics (SSCND8)
Organizers: André Longtin and Richard Naud
Sponsor: University of Ottawa Brain and Mind Research Institute
Faculty gender ratio: 0 Women : 12 Men (0%)
Estimated* base rate of females in the field: 17-20%
*Method of estimation: Previously established base rate of women in computational neuroscience.
Organization for Computational Neurosciences 27th Annual Meeting (CNS2018)
Organizer: Thomas Nowotny (Program Chair)
Sponsors: see here
Total speaker gender ratio: 8 Women : 20 Men (29%)
Invited keynote speaker gender ratio: 2 Women : 2 Men (50%)
Estimated* base rate of females in the field: 17-20%
*Method of estimation: Previously established base rate of women in computational neuroscience.
9th Annual Oxford Neuroscience Symposium
Speaker gender ratio: 8 Women : 11 Men (42%)
Estimated* base rate of women in the field: 24%
*Method of estimation: previously established base rate of women in neuroscience.
6th MindBrainBody Symposium (MBB 2018)
Keynote speaker gender ratio: 3 Women : 3 Men (50%)
Estimated* base rate of women in the field: 24%
*Method of estimation: previously established base rate of women in neuroscience.
Columbia Workshop on Brain Circuits, Memory and Computation 2018
Organizer: Aurel A. Lazar
Invited speaker gender ratio: 1 Woman : 15 Men (6%)
Estimated* base rate of females in the field: 17-20%
*Method of estimation: Previously established base rate of women in computational neuroscience.
Okinawa/OIST Computational Neuroscience Course 2018
Organizers: Erik De Schutter, Kenji Doya, Bernd Kuhn and Jeff Wickens
Lecturer gender ratio: 3 Women : 13 Men (19%)
Estimated* base rate of females in the field: 17-20%
*Method of estimation: Previously established base rate of women in computational neuroscience.
Signal and Noise along the auditory pathway (SNAP)
Sponsors: see here
Keynote speaker gender ratio: 4 Women : 5 Men (44%)
Discussant gender ratio: 1 Woman : 1 Man (50%)
Estimated* base rate of females in the field: 33%
*Method of estimation: We searched NIH RePORTER with keyword (signal OR noise) AND auditory and then counted the ratio of women among the unique researchers in all 27 pages of results found using our python script.
Cognitive Computation Symposium: Thinking Beyond Deep Learning (CoCoSym)
Organizers: Tarek R. Besold (Host/Chair), Artur d’Avila Garcez, Michael Spranger, Michael Witbrock
Invited speaker gender ratio: 3 Women : 11 Men (21%)
Estimated* base rate of females in the field: 15%
*Method of estimation: Previously established base rate of women in neurally inspired machine learning.
Auditory EEG Signal Processing (AESoP) Symposium
Steering committee: Tom Francart, Jan Wouters, Jonathan Simon, Ed Lalor, Alain de Cheveigné, Andrew Dimitrijevic
Invited speaker gender ratio: 2 Women : 7 Men (22%)
Estimated* base rate of females in the field: 37%
*Method of estimation: We searched NIH RePORTER with keyword (auditory OR hearing OR speech OR language) AND (EEG OR MEG) and then counted the ratio of women among the unique researchers in all 8 pages of results found using our python script.
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