Virtual Meeting on Compact Stars and QCD 2020 (Originally "Compact Stars in the QCD Phase Diagram VIII: The era of multi-messenger Astronomy")

This conference will have talks on cutting edge research on theoretical QCD and its application of the astrophysical properties of compact stars. For the benefit of the students, there will be some lectures on stellar structure and evolution too. This program is a concise virtual version of our original program CSQCD-2020, whose description is given belowCompact stars in the QCD phase diagram (CSQCD) is a biennial international discussion meeting that brings together astroparticle physicists and astrophysicists with the aim of developing theoretical insights into the QCD phase diagram at high baryon density and its applications to the phenomenology of compact stars.With the dawn of an era of gravitational wave astronomy, CSQCD will serve as a confluence of research on multi-messenger observations of neutron stars, charting promising directions that will uncover the nature of matter in their core. This field is expected to see many breakthroughs in the coming years, with the aid of terr...