Chapter 1:  Nuclear Forces and Structure  (Aug. 26 - Sep. 04)

• Empirical properties of the nucleon-nucleon interaction
  
• Nuclear matter and Fermi gas model
• Brueckner-Bethe-Goldstone theory
  
• Shell model of the nucleus
• Collective modes: Tamm-Dancoff and Random-Phase approximations
  

 Chapter 2:  Relativistic Nuclear Many-Body Problem  (Sep. 08 - Oct. 02)

• Relativistic mean-field theory and sigma-omega model
  
• Quantum Hadrodynamics (QHD)
• QHD at finite temperature
  
• Pions in QHD
• Chiral invariance
• Linear sigma model and spontaneous breaking of chiral symmetry
• Sigma and Delta resonances
• Effective field theory
  

  Chapter 3:  Hadron Structure and QCD (Oct. 07 - Oct. 30) 

• Electron scattering and hadron spectroscopy
• Constituent-quark and bag models
• Basic properties of QCD
  
• Nambu-Jona Lasinio and instanton models
  
• Nonperturbative vacuum structure and mass generation
• Lattice QCD
• Effective hadronic models
  

 Chapter 4:  Quark-Gluon Plasma and Ultrarelativistic Heavy-Ion Collisions  (Nov. 04 - Dec. 02) 

• QCD phase diagram
  
• Quasiparticle model of Quark-Gluon Plasma (QGP)
  
• Hadronic matter and spectral functions
• Basic observables in heavy-ion collisions
• QGP probes I: heavy quarks
• QGP probes II: photons and dileptons