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Strongly interacting matter at high temperature and densities turns into a deconfined medium known as the Quark-Gluon Plasma. The combined effort of theory and experiment has helped shed light on its features, as well as on the phase structure of matter in such extreme conditions.
Heavy-ion collisions now routinely create short-lived Quark-Gluon Plasma droplets, and can explore the phase diagram of strongly interacting matter at low to moderate density.
Ever improving theoretical calculations can now provide a solid understanding of both dynamical and thermodynamical properties of this phase of matter, especially at low density.
In this talk I will provide an overview of theoretical developments in the study of strongly interacting matter at high energy, focusing on the mapping and characterization of the different phases.
