Organizers: Marko Nardini, Ulrik Beierholm, Maria Olkkonen, Tessa Dekker, Laurence T Maloney
Sponsors: Experimental Psychology Society and Durham University
Speaker gender ratio: 3 Women : 8 Men (27%)
Estimated* base rate of females in the field: 17-20%
*Method of estimation: Previously established base rate of women in computational neuroscience.
2018 Spring Brain Conference: Computational Neuroscience of Prediction
Organizers: Peter Dayan, Kerstin Preuschoff
Speaker gender ratio: 11 Women : 11 Men (50%)
Estimated* base rate of females in the field: 37%
*Method of estimation: previously established base rate of women in neuroeconomics.
European Workshop on Cognitive Neuropsychology 2018
Organizers: Franco Denes and Carlo Semenza
Plenary speaker gender ratio: 1 Woman : 1 Man (50%)
Symposia:
Organizers – 2 Women : 2 Men (50%)
Speakers – 6 Women : 6 Men (50%)
Discussants – 1 Woman : 3 Men (25%)
Estimated* base rate of females in the field: 37%
*Method of estimation: Previously established base rate of women in cognitive neuroscience.
Organizers: Lars Muckli, Katrin Amunts
Sponsor: Human Brain Project
First part (invited symposium) speaker gender ratio: 1 Woman : 8 Men (11%)
Estimated** base rate of females in the field: 37%
Second part speaker gender ratio: 4 Women : 9 Men (31%)
Estimated*** base rate of females in the field: 17-20%
*The first part of this meeting falls under cognitive neuroscience while the second part falls under computational neuroscience.
**Method of estimation: Previously established base rate of women in cognitive neuroscience.
***Method of estimation: Previously established base rate of women in computational neuroscience.
Keystone Symposium: Frontiers of Serotonin Beyond the Brain
Organizers: Fusun Kilic, Michael D. Gershon and Luc Maroteaux
Sponsors: Chroma Technology Corporation and Oncotarget
Total speaker gender ratio: 11 women : 18 men (38%)
Keynote speaker gender ratio: 2 women : 4 men (33%)
Estimated* base rate of females in the field: 32%
*Method of estimation: We searched NIH RePORTER with keyword serotonin and then counted the ratio of women among the unique researchers in all 28 pages of results using our python script. (Search done March 2017.)
Cognitively Informed Artificial Intelligence at NIPS 2017
Organizers: Angela Yu, Brenden Lake, Mike Mozer
Invited speaker gender ratio: 2 Women : 6 Men (25%)
Estimated* base rate of females in the field: 15%
*Method of estimation: Previously established base rate of women in neurally inspired machine learning.
Winter School on Deterministic and Stochastic Models in Neuroscience
Organizers: Patrick Cattiaux & Grégory Faye
Total speaker gender ratio: 2 Women : 8 Men (20%)
Invited speaker gender ratio: 0 Women : 6 Men (0%)
Course 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.
Computational and Systems Neuroscience (Cosyne) 2018
Organizers: Stephanie Palmer, Tony Zador, Alex Pouget and Zach Mainen
Program Chairs: Ilana Witten and Eric Shea-Brown
Invited speaker gender ratio: 6 Women : 7 Men (46%)
Estimated* base rate of females in the field: 17-18%
*Method of estimation: Base rate of women in computational neuroscience previously established through attendance at COSYNE conferences
Organizers: see here
Sponsors: see here
Plenary speaker gender ratio: 1 Woman : 5 Men (17%)
Estimated* base rate of females in the field: 24%
*Method of estimation: previously established base rate of women in neuroscience.
Winter School Workshop on Computational Brain Connectivity Mapping
Sponsors: see here
Speaker gender ratio: 3 Women : 21 Men (13%)
Estimated* base rate of females in the field: 17-20%
*Method of estimation: Previously established base rate of women in computational neuroscience.
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