A list of topics of the School includes (in alphabetical order):

• Effective QCD theory/model approaches
• Elastic scattering and diffraction (experiment+theory)
• Femtoscopy (experiment+theory)
• Flow and hydrodynamics (experiment+theory)
• Gluon saturation and electron-ion collider (experiment+theory)
• Heavy flavor and quarkonia (experiment+theory)
• Intermediate energies (FAIR, J-PARC, nuclear physics)
• Jets and high pT probes (experiment+theory)
• Magnetic field in heavy ion collisions (experiment+theory)
• Photons and dileptons (experiment+theory)
• QCD at non-zero temperature and density
• Search for the QCD critical point (experiment+theory)
• Strongly coupled gauge theories (beyond SM, AdS/CFT)
• Vorticity and polarization in heavy ion physics (experiment+theory)