The Symposium is intended to review our current knowledge on the physics of dense baryonic matter and to discuss the future perspectives in this field of research. The main goal is to provide guidance for future experimental programs at the planned FAIR facility at GSI-Darmstadt and give direction to further theoretical developments. Topics to be covered include:
QCD at high baryon densities
Onset of deconfinement
Critical point of the QCD phase diagram
Chiral symmetry restoration and in-medium properties of hadrons