------------------- ROMFIN 2009 Proceedings ---------------- The proceedings of the 12th Romanian-Finnish Seminar International Conference on Complex Analysis and Related Topics, August 17-21 2009, Turku (Finland), will be published as a special issue of the journal Complex Analysis and Operator Theory (CAOT), Birkhauser Verlag / Springer-Verlag, which is indexed in the ISI Science Citation Expanded. The manuscripts submitted for publication should represent original research papers, not published, accepted, or submitted elsewhere, and will be carefully peer-reviewed. A few invited survey articles on mainstream directions related to the conference topics will be considered as well. Detailed instructions on submission of manuscripts for publication in the ROMFIN 2009 Proceedings will be distributed during the conference in Turku. All participants interested in the ROMFIN 2009 Proceedings are kindly asked to inform, by a short e-mailed message, Aurelian Gheondea (main editor of the proceedings) at or , indicating the tentative number of pages to be submitted, before or during the conference. The deadline for submitting a manuscript to the ROMFIN 2009 Proceedings is 1st of March 2010. However, because the editorial process takes time, the contributors are kindly asked to submit their manuscripts earlier. General instructions for preparing the manuscripts, as well as a package of style files, templates, and examples, can be downloaded from the CAOT web page http://www.springer.com/birkhauser/mathematics/journal/11785 After acceptance, the authors will be asked to provide the source (LaTeX2e) file of the article, prepared according to the publisher's requirements. ROMFIN 2009 Organizing Committee