Prof. Dr. Stefan Milius

Contact

Phone: +49 (0)9131 / 85 64058

E-Mail: stefan [dot] milius [at] fau [dot] de

Room: 11.152


Address

📍 Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg Lehrstuhl für Informatik 8 (Theoretische Informatik) Martensstr. 3
91058 Erlangen

Stefan Milius

Research

Publications

My research interests include:

  • coalgebras and their application in computer science
  • semantics of iteration and recursion
  • universal algebra and category theory
  • logic and formal verification of system
Awards

Best Theory Paper at FM 2019 for „Generic Partition Refinement and Weighted Tree Automata“
(with H.-P. Deifel, L. Schröder and T. Wißmann)

EATCS Best Paper Award at MFCS 2017 for „Eilenberg Theorems for Free“
(with J. Adamek and H. Urbat)

CALCO 2015 Best Paper Award for „Syntactic Monoids in a Category“
(with J. Adamek and H. Urbat)

Ackermann Award 2006 for my PhD thesis.

Braunschweig Preis für hervorragende Leistungen im Studium, 2000.

Editorial Activities

Member of the Advisory Board of TheoretiCS (since 2019)

Editor-in-Chief of Logical Methods in Computer Science (since 2020)

Editorial board member of Applied Categorical Structures (since 2020)

Conference on Algebra and Coalgebra in Computer Science (CALCO), Steering Committee cochair (with M. Roggenbach, 2015-2022)

International Workshop on Coalgebraic Methods in Computer Science (CMCS), Steering Committee chair (2015-2022)

Executive Editor of Logical Methods in Computer Science (since 2014)

Program Committees

29th International Conference on Foundations of Software Science and Computation Structures (FoSSaCS 2026), PC co-chair

41st Conference on Mathematical Foundations of Programming Semantics MFPS XLI (MFPS 2025), PC co-chair

40th Annual ACM/IEEE Symposium on Logic in Computer Science (LICS 2025), PC member

26th International Conference on Foundations of Software Science and Computation Structures (FoSSaCS 2023), PC member

47th International Symposium on Mathematical Foundations of Computer Science (MFCS 2022), PC member

46th International Symposium on Mathematical Foundations of Computer Science (MFCS 2021), PC member

29th EACSL Annual Conference on Computer Science Logic (CSL 2021), PC member

14th International Workshop on Coalgebraic Methods in Computer Science (CMCS 2018), PC member

32th Annual ACM/IEEE Symposium on Logic in Computer Science (LICS 2017), PC member

7th Conference on Algebra and Coalgebra in Computer Science (CALCO 2017), PC member

37th IFIP WG 6.1 International Conference on Formal Techniques for Distributed Objects, Components, and Systems (FORTE 2017), PC member

13th International Workshop on Coalgebraic Methods in Computer Science (CMCS 2016), PC member

6th Conference on Algebra and Coalgebra in Computer Science (CALCO 2015), PC member

21st Workshop on Expressiveness in Concurrency and 11th Workshop on Structural Operational Semantics (EXPRESS/SOS 2014), PC member

30th Conference on Mathematical Foundations of Programming Semantics (MFPS XXX), PC member

12th International Workshop on Coalgebraic Methods in Computer Science (CMCS 2014), PC member

5th Conference on Algebra and Coalgebra in Computer Science (CALCO 2013), PC co-chair

11th International Workshop on Coalgebraic Methods in Computer Science (CMCS 2012), PC member

10th International Workshop on Coalgebraic Methods in Computer Science (CMCS 2010), PC member

3rd Conference on Algebra and Coalgebra in Computer Science (CALCO 2009), PC member

8th International Workshop on Coalgebraic Methods in Computer Science (CMCS 2006), PC member

Current Teaching

Concerning topics for thesis projects ask me directly.

Theoretische Informatik für Wirtschaftsinformatik und Lehramt

Old Projects

Projekt VerSyKo

Master thesis Relations in Categories

Student research project in computer science on Multiplication of sparse matrices with an instruction systolic array

Alan – a simulator for Turing machines that was developed during the software engineering practicum in 1997.

Graphics Vision: a library for graphical user interfaces with Turbo Pascal developed between 1992 and 1996.