Chapter 1:  Nuclear Forces and Structure  (Aug. 27 - Sep. 19)

• Empirical properties of the nucleon-nucleon interaction
  
• Nuclear matter and Fermi gas model
• Brueckner-Bethe-Goldstone theory
  
• Shell model of the nucleus

 Chapter 2:  Relativistic Nuclear Many-Body Problem  (Sep. 21 - Oct. 15)

• Lagrangian mechanics, symmetries and Klein-Gordon equation
  
• Relativistic mean-field theory and sigma-omega model
  
• Quantum Hadrodynamics (QHD)
• QHD at finite temperature
   

  Chapter 3:  Hadron Structure and Quantum Chromodynamics  (Oct. 17 - Nov. 12) 

• Electron scattering and hadron sub-structure
• SU(3) flavor symmetry and constituent-quark model
• Quarks, gluons and QCD
• Static QCD and heavy quarkonia
  
• Bag, Nambu-Jona Lasinio and instanton models
  
• Nonperturbative vacuum structure and mass generation

 Chapter 4:  Quark-Gluon Plasma and High-Energy Heavy-Ion Collisions  (Nov. 14 - Dec. 03) 

• QCD phase diagram
  
• Hadronic matter and spectral functions
• Observables in heavy-ion collisions
• QGP probes I: heavy quarks
• QGP probes II: photons and dileptons