The conference will discuss the following topics

- Nuclear parton distribution functions

- Gluon saturation

- The initial stages of heavy-ion collisions

- Global and collective dynamics

- Hydrodynamics and fluctuating initial conditions

- Viscosity and other transport coefficients of the QCD medium

- Strong coupling techniques

- Multi-parton interactions in p-A and A-A collisions

- Proton-nucleus and lepton-nucleus complementarity