Drostefest 2027

Celebrating Manfred Droste’s 70th birthday and career

9–11 February 2027
Felix Klein room · Leipzig University

Manfred Droste

Drostefest 2027 celebrates our friend Manfred Droste’s 70th birthday and career. His research connects automata theory, logic and algebra, including weighted automata and semirings.

Official university profile

Portrait source: Manfred Droste’s Leipzig University profile.

Organised by Guillermo Badia and Andreas Maletti

The invited speaker list and available talk titles and abstracts are listed on this website.

The final programme and participation arrangements will be added as they are confirmed.

Weighted automata, algebra and semirings. Three states q0, q1 and accepting q2 have transitions a with weight alpha and b with weight beta. Multiply weights along each path and add the weights of accepting paths over a semiring.

Leipzig, our host city

Leipzig’s Old Town Hall and market square.

University banner: Fred Romero, via Wikimedia Commons; cropped for the banner.
City photograph: Visions of Domino, via Wikimedia Commons.
Both Leipzig photographs are licensed under CC BY 2.0.

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