  The Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) came online in 2000, and the last
three years have provided a wealth of new experimental data and theoretical
work in this new energy frontier for nuclear physics. The transition from
quarks and gluons bound into hadrons to a deconfined quark-gluon plasma is
expected to occur at these energies, and the effort to understand the time
evolution of these complex systems has been significantly advanced. The heavy
ion parallel session talks from the Conference on the Intersections of Particle
and Nuclear Physics (CIPANP) 2003 are posted at:
http://www.phenix.bnl.gov/WWW/publish/nagle/CIPANP/. We provide a brief summary
of these sessions here.
