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Skeleton expansion State of the art Compare Lattice – 2PI From weak coupling To strong coupling Conclusions (1) A variety of weak coupling techniques converge to provide a simple pysical picture of the QGP for T2.5 Tc The degrees of freedom are quark and gluon quasiparticles With effective masses due to thermal fluctuations and Weak residual interactions This physical picture is compatible with lattice data on thermodynamical functions Conclusions (2) What happens to the quasiparticle picture near Tc is still not understood Does the concept of quasiparticle remain a useful concept ? Boun