Quarks, Gluons, and Hadronic Matter under Extreme Conditions

Topics:

• Mapping the Phase Diagram of QCD: Lattice and Continuum Approaches
• Confinement and Deconfinement
• Chiral Symmetry Breaking and Restoration
• Electromagnetic Effects in Hadronic Matter
• Out of Equilibrium Matter
• Heavy ion collisions at RHIC, ALICE, and FAIR

Key Speakers:

• Falk Bruckmann (Regensburg University, Germany)
• Kenji Fukushima (Yukawa Institute Kyoto, Japan)
• Jeff Greensite (San Francisco State University, USA)
• Johann Heuser (GSI, Germany)
• Atsushi Nakamura (Hiroshima University, Japan)
• Jan Pawlowski (Heidelberg University, Germany)
• Owe Philipsen (Frankfurt University, Germany)
• Mikhail Polikarpov (ITEP, Russia)
• Andreas Schäfer (Regensburg, Germany)
• Kai Schweda (Heidelberg University, Germany)
• Edward Shuryak (New York State University, USA)
• Derek Teaney (Stony Brook, USA)
• Johannes Wessels (Münster University, Germany)
• Laurence Yaffe (Washington, USA)

Organizing committee:

• Christian S. Fischer (Darmstadt & Giessen, Germany)
• Axel Maas (Karl-Franzens-University Graz, Austria)
• Michael Müller-Preussker (Humboldt University Berlin, Germany)