The present goal of heavy-ion physics is to investigate properties of nuclear matter under extreme conditions of high and low densities as a function of excitation energy, extract information about the nuclear equation of state, and learn about possible phase transformations such as liquid-gas transition and quark-gluon formation. Heavy-ion collisions provide the only tool for these investigations. The reaction mechanism depends on the deposited energy and the amount of compression brought into system. The topics in the summer school will cover various aspects of nuclear dynamics at low-energy, intermediate-energy, and high-energy heavy ion-collisions. A number of lectures will be presented on nuclear dynamics at low energies, on heavy-ion collisions with radioactive beams, on dynamics in nuclei far from stability, on the nuclear matter equation of state, on relativistic heavy-ion collisions and on the properties of hadrons in hot and dense matter, on chrial dynamics in nuclear physics. Also, lectures will be presented on the synthesis of super-heavy elements by means of heavy-ion fusion, on the hadron spectroscopy, heavy pentaquarks and B decays in QCD sum rules, on perturbative QCD approach to heavy quarkonium, and on the constraint molecular dynamics simulations for fermions.