Abstract
The theory of Coulomb system has made impressive progress over the last 50 years. What started out as theory for electrolytes and low density, high temperature plasmas has developed into a powerful quantum statistical method to describe strongly coupled plasmas and warm dense matter. Not least due to the many contributions of Wolf Kraeft, the Rostock school, colleagues from Greifswald, Berlin and indeed all around the world, we now look at a vibrant field with exceptional experimental and theoretical capabilities. The talk will give an overview of recent and not so recent findings in the field of what is now known as warm dense matter and in particular describe the close interplay between theory and experiment that has only become possible over the last decade.