Is the Equation of State of strongly interacting matter observable ?

Abstract

I review the available empirical information on the equation of state of cold strongly interacting matter, as well as the prospects for obtaining new insights from the experimental study of gravitational waves emitted by neutron stars.

Comments: Invited talk at the Workshop on Quark Gluon Plasma and Relativistic Heavy Ions. Frascati, Jan. 14-18, 2002. To be published in the Proceeedings (World Scientific, Singapore)