Targets and results
we plan to address the following issues:
QCD thermodynamics with lattice simulations and phenomenological models
Microscopic origin of the small shear viscosity of the Quark Gluon Plasma which has been experimentally observed
Color Glass Condensate effects on the dynamical evolution of the system
Study of the coalescence hadronization mechanism and its applications to experimental observables
Heavy quark physics and quarkonia
Study of the QCD phase diagram at finite density