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Description
Since the first detection of gravitational waves from the coalescence of neutron stars in 2017, many new discoveries and constraints have been placed on matter at large baryon densities. The study of dense matter has also been facilitied by heavy-ion collsions at low beam energies. Heavy-ion collisions experiments from RHIC at Brookhaven National Laboratory have ran the Beam Energy Scan and Fixed Target program that reach similar densities to those in neutron stars but are at finite temperatures. Synergies between extreme matter in the laboratory and in the coalescence of neutron stars are only beginning to be explored. In this talk I will discuss connections that exist at the level of the equation of state and out-of-equilibrium properties and how these connections will be strengthened as new data comes from future facilities and upgraded gravitational wave detectors.
