Pts.I. A New Phase of Matter? -- 1. Micro-bang: big bang in the laboratory -- 2. Hadrons -- 3. Vacuum as a physical medium -- 4. Statistical properties of hadronic matter -- Pts.II. Analysis Tools and Experiments -- 5. Nuclei in collision -- 6. Understanding collision dynamics -- 7. Entropy and its relevance in heavy ion collisions -- Pts.III. Particle Production -- 8. Particle spectra -- 9. Highlights of hadron production -- Pts.IV. Hot Hadronic Matter -- 10. Relativistic gas -- 11. First look at hadronic gas -- 12. Hagedorn gas -- Pts.V. QCD, Hadronic Structure and High Temperature -- 13. Hadronic structure and quantum chromodynamics -- 14. Perturbative QCD -- 15. Lattice quantum chromodynamics -- 16. Perturbative quark-gluon plasma -- Pts.VI. Strangeness -- 17. Thermal flavor production in deconfined phase -- 18. Strangeness background -- 19. Hadron freeze-out analysis

1. Quark-gluon plasma
2. Hadrons