Contact Invited Speakers Natália Bebiano (Portugal) Jeff Hunter (New Zealand) Charles Johnson (USA) Juan Manuel Peña (Spain) Young Scientists Awards - Mat Triad`2009 Ricardo Covas (Portugal) Aneta Sawikowska (Poland) Lecturers Narayanaswamy Balakrishnan (Canada) Ali S. Hadi (Egypt) Volker Mehrmann (Germany) Universidade Nova de Lisboa Scientific Committee Tomasz Szulc – Chair (Poland) João T. Mexia – Vice-Chair (Portugal) Ljiljana Cvetković (Serbia) Heike Faßbender (Germany) Simo Puntanen (Finland) Organizing Committee Francisco Carvalho – Chair (Portugal) Katarzyna Filipiak – Vice-Chair (Poland) Miguel Fonseca (Portugal) Paulo C. Rodrigues (Portugal) Special Issue: ELA - Electronic Journal of Linear Algebra Conference on Matrix Analysis and its Applications