  These proceedings represent a brief overview of the exciting physics coming
out from the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) at Brookhaven National
Laboratory. The experimental results from BRAHMS, PHOBOS, PHENIX and STAR
indicate a strongly-coupled state of matter that can only be described on the
partonic level. Here we review some of the latest experimental results as
presented at the meeting of the Division of Particles and Fields of the
American Physical Society in Riverside, CA in August 2004.
