5th MindBrainBody Symposium (MBB 2017)
Keynote speaker gender ratio: 2 Women : 4 Men (33%)
Estimated* base rate of women in the field: 24%
*Method of estimation: previously established base rate of women in neuroscience.
2017 Computational and Cognitive Neuroscience Summer School
2017 Computational and Cognitive Neuroscience Summer School
Organizers: Xiao-Jing Wang, Zachary F Mainen, Si Wu, John D. Murray and Eric DeWitt
Invited lecturer gender ratio: 2 Women : 12 Men (14%)
Estimated* base rate of females in the field: 17-20%
*Method of estimation: Previously established base rate of women in computational neuroscience.
Bernstein Conference 2017
Organizers: Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience Göttingen (BCCN Göttingen)
Funded by: German Federal Ministry of Education and Research
Invited speaker gender ratio: 6 Women : 6 Men (50%)
Estimated* base rate of females in the field: 17-18%
We are especially happy to see gender parity at the Bernstein Conference, given the history of this annual meeting. May this be the first of many.
*Method of estimation: Since the conference is advertised as “the largest annual Computational Neuroscience Conference in Europe” we used the base rate in the field of computational neuroscience as calculated from attendance at COSYNE 2016.
Organization for Computational Neurosciences 26th Annual Meeting (CNS2017)
Organization for Computational Neurosciences 26th Annual Meeting (CNS2017)
Organizers: Michele Giugliano, Daniele Marinazzo (Local Organizers) and Anthony Burkitt (Program Chair)
Invited 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.
Columbia Workshop on Brain Circuits, Memory and Computation 2017
Columbia Workshop on Brain Circuits, Memory and Computation 2017
Organizer: Aurel A. Lazar
Invited speaker gender ratio: 3 Women : 12 Men (20%)
Estimated* base rate of females in the field: 17-20%
*Method of estimation: Previously established base rate of women in computational neuroscience.
Statistical Analysis of Neural Data (SAND8)
Statistical Analysis of Neural Data (SAND8)
Organizers: Emery Brown, Elizabeth Buffalo, Rob Kass, Liam Paninski, Sri Sarma and Jonathan Victor
Invited speaker gender ratio: 9 Women : 10 Men (47%)
Estimated* base rate of females in the field: 17-20%
*Method of estimation: Previously established base rate of women in computational neuroscience.
8th Annual Oxford Neuroscience Symposium
8th Annual Oxford Neuroscience Symposium
Speaker gender ratio: 6 Women : 8 Men (43%)
Estimated* base rate of women in the field: 24%
*Method of estimation: previously established base rate of women in neuroscience.
Advanced Course Spring 2017: Learning and Memory
Advanced Course Spring 2017: Learning and Memory
Organizers: Susumu Tonegawa, Alcino J. Silva and Nicolas Bazan
Faculty gender ratio: 1 Woman : 6 Men (14%)
Estimated* base rate of females in the field: 33%
*Method of estimation: We searched NIH RePORTER with keyword “(learning OR memory) AND neuro*” and counted the ratio of women among the unique researchers in pages 13, 27, 40 and 54 of 67 results pages. (Search was originally done in December 2016.)
RIKEN BSI Summer Program 2017
Organizers: Hokto Kazama, Taro Toyoizumi, Toshihiko Hosoya, Andrea Benucci and Hitoshi Okamoto
Lecturer gender ratio: 3 Women : 11 Men (21%)
Estimated* base rate of women in the field: 24%
*Method of estimation: previously established base rate of women in neuroscience.
2017 International Computational Psychiatry Course
2017 International Computational Psychiatry Course
Organizers: Frederike Petzschner & Klaas Enno Stephan
Speaker gender ratio: 8 Women : 17 Men (32%)
Estimated* base rate of women in the field: 29%
*Method of estimation: previously established base rate of women in computational psychiatry.
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