We are very pleased to announce that the VIII Discrete Mathematics and Applications Workshop (MDA 2020) will be held remotely on November 25th, 2020. MDA is a national scientific event which brings together researchers from renowned research centers in the field of Discrete and Combinatorial Mathematics, and students and teachers from public high schools. Since 2013, MDA has promoted the dissemination of Mathematics through activities inserted in projects supported by Brazilian funding agencies CAPES, CNPq and FAPERJ.

This year MDA will take place in conjunction with the IX Latin-American Workshop on Cliques in Graphs (LAWCG 2020). LAWCG is meant to foster interaction between the Latin American Graph Theory and Combinatorics researchers, whose research interests include cliques, clique graphs, the behavior of cliques and related issues. Previous editions of LAWCG were held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (2002), La Plata, Argentina (2006), Guanajuato, Mexico (2008), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (2010), Buenos Aires, Argentina (2012), Pirenópolis, Brazil (2014), La Plata, Argentina (2016), and Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (2018).

The MDA is an event of the Brazilian Antenna of Mathematics!

Additional information is available at LAWCG 2020's website:

https://www.lawcg.mat.br/lawcg20/

MDA Steering Committee 

Simone Dantas, UFF, Brazil
Telma Pará, ETEAB/FAETEC-RJ,  Brazil

LAWCG Steering Committee

Celina de Figueiredo, UFRJ, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Erika Coelho, UFG, Goiânia, Brazil
Jayme Szwarcfiter, UFRJ and UERJ, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Liliana Alcón, UNLP, La Plata, Argentina
Márcia Cappelle, UFG, Goiânia, Brazil
Marina Groshaus, UBA, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Marisa Gutierrez, UNLP, La Plata, Argentina
Miguel Pizaña, UAM, Mexico, Mexico

Program Committee

Simone Dantas, UFF, Brazil 
Ana Shirley Silva, UFC, Brazil
Atílio Gomes Luiz, UFC, Brazil
Christiane Neme Campos, UNICAMP, Brazil
Márcia Cappelle, UFG, Brazil
Sheila Morais de Almeida, UTFPR, Brazil

Organizing committee

Celina de Figueiredo, UFRJ, Brazil
Telma Pará, ETEAB/FAETEC-RJ, Brazil