Scientific Programme

  • QCD at finite temperature and baryon density

  • Initial state and approach to equilibrium

  • Small systems

  • Collective dynamics and final state interaction

  • Search for the critical end point

  • Chirality, vorticity and spin polarization

  • Jet modifications and medium response

  • Heavy flavor and quarkonium

  • Electromagnetic probes

  • Quark matter and nuclear astrophysics

  • New theoretical developments

  • Future facilities and instrumentation