--- QCD phase diagram for HIC vs. astrophysics,

--- Quark deconfinement in HIC vs. supernovae, neutron stars and their mergers,

--- Strangeness in HIC and in compact stars,

--- Equation of state and QCD phase transitions.

Rachid Ouyed (Chair) (Canada),

Prashanth Jaikumar (USA / India),

Ignazio Bombaci (Italy),

Rodrigo Negreiros (Brazil),

David Blaschke (JINR / Poland),

Jochen Wambach (Germany),

Efrain Ferrer (USA),

Fridolin Weber (USA),

Renxin Xu (China),

Vivian Incera (USA),

Kohsuke Sumiyoshi (Japan),

Massimo Mannarelli (Italy),

Tobias Fischer (Germany / Poland),

Matthias Hempel (Germany / Switzerland).

David Blaschke (JINR & UWr & MEPhI),

Hovik Grigorian (YSU & JINR),

Alexander Ayriyan (JINR),

Alexandra Friesen (JINR),

Anna Kotova (JINR).