Workshop on Computational Models for Crossmodal Learning

Organizers: Pablo Barros, German I. Parisi, Doreen Jirak, Bruno Fernandes
Sponsors: DFG and Crossmodal Learning Project
Invited speaker gender ratio: 2 Women : 2 Men (50%)
Estimated* base rate of females in the field: 15%

*Method of estimation: Previously established base rate of women in neurally inspired machine learning. (Based on registration for the annual NIPS conference in 2016.)

 ICAM-I2CAM Symposium on Mathematical and computational approaches to the ‘Big Data’ challenge in neuron-glia interactions

Organizers: Maurizio De Pittà and Elena Galea
Speaker gender ratio: 1 Woman : 3 Men (25%)
Estimated* base rate of females in the field: 17-20%

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

Göttingen Advanced Computational  Neuroscience Summer School 2017

Organizers: Diemut Regel, Barbara Feulner, Alexander Schmidt, Jens Wilting
Invited speaker gender ratio: 2 Women : 6 Men (25%)
Estimated* base rate of females in the field: 17-20%

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

Interacting with Neural Circuits

Organizers: Michael Häusser, Leopoldo Petreanu and Menno Witter
Sponsors: see here
Total gender ratio: 7 women : 24 men (23%)
Faculty gender ratio: 5 women : 19 men (21%)
Instructor gender ratio: 2 women : 5 men (29%)
Estimated* base rate of females in the field: 17-18%

*Method of estimation: Previously established base rate of women in computational neuroscience, specifically the numbers based on attendance at COSYNE (Computational and Systems Neuroscience) 2016.

Workshop on Methods of Information Theory in Computational Neuroscience

Organizers: see here
Speaker gender ratio: 4 women : 9 men (31%)
Estimated* base rate of females in the field: 17-20%

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

2017 Computational Psychiatry: a didactic introduction

Speaker gender ratio: 6 Women : 8 Men (43%)
Estimated* base rate of women in the field: 29% 

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

Latin-American Workshop on Computational Neuroscience 2017

Organizers: Dante Augusto Couto Barone and Marino Bianchin
Sponsors: Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Instituto de Informática UFRGS,  Instituto Federal de Educação, Ciência e Tecnologia da Bahia – Campus Camaçari and Fundação Médica do Rio Grande do Sul
Keynote speaker gender ratio: 1 Woman : 3 Men (25%)
Estimated* base rate of females in the field: 17-20%

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