The 21st International Conference on QCD in Extreme Conditions

The International Conference on QCD in Extreme Conditions (XQCD) is a series of international workshop-style conferences, held annually, which aims at covering recent advances in the theory and phenomenology of QCD under extreme conditions of temperature and/or baryon density, together with related topics.

The 21^st edition of the conference (XQCD 2025) will take place at the University of Wrocław, Wrocław, Poland, from July 2 to July 4, 2025.

The PhD School on QCD in Extreme Conditions, accompanying the XQCD 2025, will take place from June 30 to July 1, 2025, at the Department of Physics and Astronomy of the University of Wrocław. 

Topics

• QCD at Finite Temperature and Density
• Heavy Ion Collision Phenomenology
• Phase Diagram of Strongly Interacting Matter
• Properties of the Quark-Gluon Plasma
• Properties of Strongly Interacting Gauge Theories
• The Sign Problem in Lattice QCD
• QCD in External Fields
• Neutron Stars

Invited Speakers

• Christian Fischer (University of Giessen, Germany) - correlations and bound states in dense QCD
• Matthias Kaminski (University of Alabama, USA) - nonequilibrium dynamics in QCD
• Sanjay Reddy (INT, Seattle, USA) - nuclear astrophysics
• Andreas Schmitt (University of Southampton, UK) - dense QCD matter
• Sipaz Sharma (Technical University of Munich, Germany) - lattice QCD
• Leonardo Tinti (Jan Kochanowski University, Kielce, Poland) - advances in fluid dynamics

[Photo by Romuald M. Sołdek]

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