Theoretical overview: towards understanding the quark-gluon plasma

Abstract

I give a brief overview of recent theoretical developments concerning the high temperature phase of QCD, and the structure of hadronic wave functions at high energy.

Comments: 10 pages. Plenary talk at the 19th International Conference on Ultra-Relativistic Nucleus-Nucleus Collisions (QM2006) held in Shanghai, China on November 14-20, 2006