Lattice QCD for RHIC

Abstract

I briefly introduce the methods by which lattice QCD predictions for RHIC are obtained. Next I deal with lattice determinations of strangeness production and event-to-event fluctuations of conserved quantities. I also present a new diagrammatic method for computing derivatives with respect to chemical potentials, and conclude with discussions of some tests of thermal perturbation theory which follow.

Comments: To appear in the proceedings of the 42nd Cracow School of Theoretical Physics, Zakopane, Poland