Quark-gluon plasma and heavy ion collisions : a meeting held in the framework of the activities of the Italian Working Group on Strong Interactions, Laboratori nazionali di Frascati del'INFN, Frascati, Italy, 14-18 January 2002

Quark liberation, N. Cabibbo physics perspectives of the ALICE experiment at the large hadron collider, L. Riccati and M. Masera hard probes of matter in QCD, H. Satz phenomenology of heavy ion collisions, and observables - phenomenology of heavy ion collisions I - soft observables, F. Becattini phenomenology of heavy ion collisions II - hard observables, M. Nardi non-conventional statistical effects in relativistic heavy-ion collisions, W.M. Alberico et al strangeness production in a constituent quark model, F. Becattini and G. Pettini double parton collisions in NN and NA interactions, A. Del Fabbro and D. Treleani sequential charmonium suppression, S. Fortunato inclusive distributions and collective phenomena in heavy ion collisions, R. Ugoccioni mechanisms of confinement, L. Del Debbio vector spectrum and colour screening in two colour QCD at non-zero T, B. Alles et al study of confinement using the Schrodinger functional, P. Cea and L. Cosmai imaginary chemical potential in QCD at finite temperature, M. D'Elia and M.-P. Lombardo effective description of the LOFF phase of QCD, M. Mannarelli deconfinement transition and high temperature phase in lattice gauge theories, A. Papa vector condensation at large chemical potential, F. Sannino and W. Schafer.