The 25th International Conference on Developments in Language Theory (DLT 2021) will take place in Porto, Portugal on August 16-20, 2021.

DLT is International Conference Series under the auspices of the European Association for Theoretical Computer Science (EATCS). The purpose of this conference is to bring together members of the academic, research, and industrial community who have an interest in formal languages, automata theory, and related areas.

COVID-19: The conference will take place in a hybrid format with in person and online participation. In person activities will comply with all the current health regulations, in particular social distancing, reduced room number of attendees and mandatory usage of facial mask.

Conference proceedings will be published in the Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS).

Selected papers will appear in a special issue of the International Journal of Foundations of Computer Science.

The first DLT conference was held in 1993 in Turku, Finland . For more information about previous editions see the DLT homepage. Previous DLT proceedings can be found on SpringerLink.