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This volume comprises the scientific proceedings of the Spring Workshop in Complex Function Theory held in Ashkelon, Israel. The papers vary in form from brief and highly focused research announcements to detailed and relatively leisurely expositions of areas of current research. In content, the papers represent a wide variety of interests withing complex analysis, ranging from approximation theory and the analytic theory of polynomials to quasiconformal mappings, complex dynamics, and spectral geometry. There are papers on spaces of analytic functions on the disc, on entire, subharmonic, and meromorphic functions, and on function theory on Riemann surfaces. More specialized topics discussed include the application of theta functions to partition identities, Fuchsian differential equations for matrix-valued analytic functions, and duality in one and several complex variables. Three papers deal with various aspects of mean-value conditions, a topic of particular interest to a number of Israeli analysts. This volume of proceedings presents a snapshot view of current Israeli activity in complex function and provides impressive evidence of the vigour, enthusiasm, and success with which classical complex analysis is cultivated in Israel today.