dr Chihiro Sasaki, prof. UWr (IFT)

The phase structure of Quantum Chromodynamics

The studies of the QCD phases and thermodynamics at finite temperature and baryon density is of crucial importance in heavy-ion phenomenology. We will give a brief overview on QCD thermodynamics including recent developments from lattice QCD and effective theory approach. The following selected issues will be discussed; interplay between confinement and dynamical chiral symmetry breaking, hadrons near chiral symmetry restoration, correlations between light and heavy flavors.