Computing Early-time Dynamics in Heavy Ion Collisions: Status, Problems and Prospects

Abstract

We discuss some recent developments towards a quantitative understanding of the production and early-time evolution of bulk quark-gluon matter in ultrarelativistic heavy ion collisions.

Comments: 10 pages, Invited Talk, Workshop on "QCD evolution of parton distributions: from collinear to non-collinear case", Newport News, VA, 8 - 9 Apr 2011