Strong and Electroweak Matter: Copenhagen, Denmark 2-5 December 1998

Most of the contributions in this volume are concerned with the finite-temperature aspects of strong and electroweak interactions. One persistent theme is the understanding of baryon-number asymmetry: how it can be created and how it can be maintained beyond the earliest stages of the Universe. The progress in describing the real-time and non-equilibrium dynamics of the non-Abelian gauge was covered in a number of the main talks, as well as in several shorter contributions and posters. The conference presented examples of impressive analytical progress and equally impressive results from numerical simulations: the two techniques continue to fruitfully complement each other. One completely new theme at this conference was the suggestion that finite-density QCD may contain new and interesting condensed phases in the neighbourhood of the conventional critical density separating quark matter from hadronic matter. All of these developments, and many more, are reflected in this book.