AVSP 2009 was held at the University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK.

An electronic copy of the proceedings can be found here.

In addition to an interesting collection of talks by the AVSP community, keynote talks were delivered by Louis Goldstein (University of California, USA) and Peter Bull (University of York, UK).

We are grateful to our reviews for ensuring the quality of the papers forming the proceedings.

Barry-John Theobald and Richard Harvey

University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK.