LAWCG26: Latin American Workshop on Cliques in Graphs Hotel Monte Real Águas de Lindóia, Brazil, October 5-8, 2026

12th Latin American Workshop on Cliques in Graphs

LAWCG is meant to foster interaction among the Latin American Graph Theory and Combinatorics community, whose research interests include cliques, clique graphs, the behavior of cliques and other topics in Graph Theory.

The official languages are English, Portuguese, and Spanish.

For information about previous editions, please visit the LAWCG permanent website. For more information on this edition, visit the current website.

• When: October 5-8, 2026
• Where: Hotel Monte Real, Águas de Lindóia, São Paulo, Brazil

Important Dates

• Submissions deadline: April 30, 2026
• Notification: June 01, 2026
• Camera-ready: June 15, 2026
• Early registration: until July 15, 2026
• Late registration: until September 15, 2026

Submissions

Contributed talks covering original work on the conference topics will be accepted for presentation.

Prospective authors should submit an at most 2-page abstract of their work following this LaTeX format. Other formats will not be accepted for submission.

Papers must be submitted electronically via the EasyChair submission system.

For each accepted paper at least one author must register and attend the symposium (in person) to present it. Moreover, an author cannot register for multiple papers. That is, each accepted paper must have its own registrant.

Proceedings

The proceedings of the workshop will likely be published, after the event, at Matemática Contemporânea, as in the previous editions of LAWCG. All interested researchers will be invited to submit an extended abstract describing their contributions. The submitted papers will go through the normal peer-review process, following the guidelines of Matemática Contemporânea.

Invited speakers

• Miguel Pizaña, Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana, Mexico
• Ana Karolinna Maia, Universidade Federal do Ceará, Brazil
• Maya Stein, Universidad de Chile, Chile

Committees

Steering Committee

• Liliana Alcón, Universidad Nacional de La Plata, Argentina
• Márcia Cappelle, Universidade Federal de Goiás, Brazil
• Erika Coelho, Universidade Federal de Goiás, Brazil
• Celina Herrera de Figueiredo, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
• Marina Groshaus, Universidade Tecnológica Federal do Paraná, Brazil
• Marisa Gutierrez, Universidad Nacional de La Plata, Argentina
• Miguel Pizaña, Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana, Mexico
• Jayme Szwarcfiter, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Program Committee

• Lehilton Lelis Chaves Pedrosa, Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Brazil (Chair)
• Sheila Morais de Almeida, Universidade Tecnológica Federal do Paraná, Brazil
• Mauro Nigro Alves Junior, Universidade Estadual do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
• Júlio César Silva Araújo, Universidade Federal do Ceará, Brazil
• Márcia Cappelle, Universidade Federal de Goiás, Brazil
• César Hernández-Cruz, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico

Organizing Committee

• Carla Negri Lintzmayer, Universidade Federal do ABC, Brazil (Chair)
• Guilherme Oliveira Mota, Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil (Chair)
• Lehilton Lelis Chaves Pedrosa, Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Brazil
• Maycon Sambinelli, Universidade Federal do ABC, Brazil
• Cristiane Sato, Universidade Federal do ABC, Brazil