2017 Methods in Neuroscience at Dartmouth Computational Summer School
Organizers: Luke Chang, Jeremy Manning, and Matt van der Meer
Sponsors: Center for Social Brain Sciences, Center for Cognitive Neuroscience, and Neukom Institute for Computational Sciences at Dartmouth
Invited speaker gender ratio: 4 women : 11 men (27%)
Estimated* base rate of females in the field: 17-20%
*Method of estimation: Previously established base rate of women in computational neuroscience.
6th Cambridge Neuroscience Symposium: Neural Networks in Health and Disease
Sponsors: Molecular Devices, LLC, BMG LABTECH GmbH and Thorlabs, Inc.
Speaker gender ratio (incl. plenaries): 8 Women : 14 Men (36%)
Plenary speaker gender ratio: 0 Women : 2 Men (0%)
Estimated* base rate of women in the field: 24%
*Method of estimation: previously established base rate of women in neuroscience.
Cognitive Improvement: Approaches, Mechanisms and Applications
Speaker gender ratio (incl. keynotes): 10 women : 26 men (28%)
Keynote speaker gender ratio: 1 woman : 5 men (17%)
Estimated* base rate of females in the field: 43%
*Method of estimation: We searched NIH RePORTER with keyword cognitive improvement and then counted the ratio of women among the unique researchers in all 19 pages of results using our python script.
Pleasure, Reward and Value: Philosophy of the Mind Conference
Speaker gender ratio: 1 woman : 7 men (13%)
Estimated* base rate of females in the field: 42%
*Method of estimation: We searched NIH RePORTER with keyword (reward OR value) AND neuro* and then counted the ratio of women among the unique researchers in all 22 pages of results using our python script.
The 3rd Workshop On Cognitive Neuroscience Of Auditory And Cross-modal Perception
Organizers: Norbert Kopco, Erick Gallun, Piotr Majdak and Aaron Seitz
Sponsors: see here
Speaker gender ratio: 6 women : 6 men (50%)
Estimated* base rate of females in the field: 35%
*Method of estimation: We searched NIH RePORTER with keyword (auditory OR cross-modal) AND perception and then counted the ratio of women among the unique researchers in all 27 pages of results using our python script.
Twelfth International Workshop on Neural-Symbolic Learning and Reasoning (NeSy’17)
Organizers: Tarek R. Besold, Artur d’Avila Garcez and Isaac Noble
Keynote speaker gender ratio: 0 Women : 4 Men (0%)
Estimated* base rate of females in the field: 15%
*Method of estimation: Previously established base rate of women in neurally inspired machine learning.
7th Annual Computational Sensory-Motor Neuroscience Summer School (CoSMo 2017)
Organizers: Gunnar Blohm, Konrad Körding and Paul Schrater
Sponsors: NIH (R25), Brain Canada Foundation, CAPnet and NSF (DREAM)
Speaker gender ratio: 2 women : 6 men (25%)
Estimated* base rate of females 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.
2017 Neuroeconomics Summer Institute at NYU Shanghai
Organizers: Nathaniel Daw, Paul Glimcher, Hilke Plassmann and Agnieszka Tymula
Faculty gender ratio: 8 Women : 11 Men (42%)
Estimated* base rate of females in the field: 37%
*Method of estimation: previously established base rate of women in neuroeconomics.
MBL Methods in Computational Neuroscience Course
Organizers: Michale Fee and Mark Goldman
Invited speaker gender ratio: 6 women : 17 men (26%)
Estimated* base rate of females in the field: 17-20%
*Method of estimation: Previously established base rate of women in computational neuroscience.
47th European Brain & Behaviour Society Meeting
Organizers: Bruno Poucet (Scientific Chair) and Shira Knafo (Local Chair)
Plenary speaker gender ratio: 3 Women : 4 Men (43%)
Estimated* base rate of women in the field: 24%
*Method of estimation: previously established base rate of women in neuroscience.
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