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In the almost 20 years since the discovery of the Quark Gluon Plasma, our understanding of its properties has changed dramatically. We now understand that the phase transition into deconfined quarks and gluons is a cross-over at vanishing baryon densities that appears to lead to a flavor hierarchy for chemical freeze-out. Out-of-equilibrium properties demonstrated through transport coefficients like shear and bulk viscosity, q-hat, and charge diffusion cannot be calculated directly from QCD. Rather, through a combination of effective models and Bayesian analyses, an emerging understanding of these transport coefficients is being developed. This talk will discuss the latest developments in our understanding of the QGP and potential discoveries in the years to come.
