XQCD 2018

A review of interrelation between those two fields consistes of two parts. One covers recent progress in ``magnetic scenario", which treats QGP as a dual plasma containing as quasiparticles not only quarks and gluons but also magnetic monopoles, dominating the ensamble near $T_c$. Recent account for monopoles contribution to jet quenching has solved the problem with azimuthal distribution of it. The second half describes recent works using semiclassical theory based on ``instanton-dyons". Studies of their ensemble explains deconfinement and chiral transitions in a different settings, with and without dynamical quarks.