As a part of the celebrations commemorating the centenary year of Prof. H. J. Bhabha, the founding director of Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR), the Department of Theoretical Physics, TIFR, is organizing this conference. It will be held at TIFR, Mumbai, during February 10-12, 2010.

The conference will focus on some recent topics of interest in the physics of strong interactions, namely:

• QCD at finite temperature and heavy ion collisions
• Hadron Physics including exotics
• Nuclear effective field theory (Nuclear physics from QCD, ChiPT, etc.).