The 18th International Conference on QCD in Extreme Conditions (XQCD 2022) will be organized by The Norwegian University of Science and Technology in Trondheim, Norway, from July 27 to July 29 2022. XQCD is a series of international workshop-style conferences, held annually, which aims at covering recent advances in the theory and phenomenology of QCD under extreme conditions of temperature and/or baryon density, together with related topics.

We will have 7 invited talks and approximately 30 contributed talks covering the topics

• QCD at Finite Temperature and Density
• Heavy Ion Collisions Phenomenology
• Phase Diagram of Strongly Interacting Matter
• Properties of the Quark-Gluon Plasma
• Properties of Strongly Interacting Gauge Theories
• The Sign Problem in Lattice QCD
• QCD in External Fields
• Neutron star