Dynamics and Thermodynamics with Nuclear Degrees of Freedom

Challenges in nuclear dynamics and thermodynamics.- Transport Properties.- Modelization of the EOS.- Deducing the nuclear-matter incompressibility coefficient from data on isoscalar compression modes.- Systematics of stopping and flow in Au+Au collisions.- High-energy probes.- Neck dynamics.- Decay Properties.- Systematics of fragment observables.- Correlations and characterization of emitting sources.- Dynamical models for fragment formation.- Statistical description of nuclear break-up.- Comparisons of statistical multifragmentation and evaporation models for heavy-ion collisions.- Instabilities in nuclear matter and finite nuclei.- Isospin Properties.- Isospin flows.- Isotopic compositions and scalings.- Signals of Phase Transitions.- Evolution of the giant dipole resonance properties with excitation energy.- Nuclear thermometry.- Calorimetry.- Moment analysis and Zipf law.- Many-fragment correlations and possible signature of spinodal fragmentation.- Fluctuations of fragment observables.- Bimodalities: A survey of experimental data and models.- Challenges and Perspectives.- Detection.- Nuclear multifragmentation, its relation to general physics.- Links between heavy ion and astrophysics.- Possible links between the liquid-gas and deconfinement-hadronization phase transitions.- The challenges of finite-system statistical mechanics.- Small fermionic systems: The common methods and challenges.