Heavy Ion Physics and Quark-Gluon Plasma

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.