The theme of this conference concerns large scale effects of strong interaction physics. The dynamics underlying the nuclear equation of state is generally believed to be of quarks interacting via the exchange of gauge gluons. In this picture the effective couplings are large, particularly at high temperatures or densities. Among particle theorists, the lattice approach has become the primary tool for the study of the nonperturbative aspects of this theory. In principle, this techniqeu can provide information on the structure of hot dense hadronic matter. Indeed, in he case where the average baryon density vanishes, lattice gauge simulations have provided the most accurate information available on the temperature of the transition to a quark gluon plasma.
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