Scientific issues that will be addressed

• QCD at finite temperature and density
• Jet Quenching and electromagnetic probe
• Global and collective dynamics
• Electroweak probes
• Pre-equilibrium and initial state dynamics
• Heavy flavor and quarkonium production
• Freeze-out and particle production
• Small-x Physics and the Color Glass Condensate
• Experiment upgrades, new facilities, and instrumentation
• Strangeness production