Starting with Volume XIII (2013), the CMFT journal will be published by Springer Verlag. This change will help to increase the journal’s international visibility and to further establish it as a dedicated outlet for high-quality research in classical and contemporary Complex Analysis, including its wide-spread connections with applications and algorithms.

To mark the occasion, the journal comes with a new look, closely related to its main subject. The cover graphics represent an impressive example of E. Wegert’s new approach of using specially designed phase portraits of analytic functions to improve the visualization of their local and global behavior. Wegert gives a detailed description of this new method in the first article of this volume.

Stephan Ruscheweyh and Edward B. Saff