prof. Chihiro Sasaki (Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies)

QCD Thermodynamics from Effective Field Theories

I will give a brief overview on QCD thermodynamics including recent developments from effective theory approach. The following selected issues will be discussed: interplay between confinement and dynamical chiral symmetry breaking, trace anomaly in hot/dense matter, hadrons near chiral symmetry restoration, embedding quark-hadron duality.