[en] Even the earliest studies of heavy-ion reactions showed that they were extremely effective in depositing energy into the nuclear volume. The properties of such hot nuclei are now under intense investigation at accelerators offering projectiles of a wide range of mass and energy. In a variety of collaborative experiments the author has been trying to contribute to the rapidly developing view of the reaction dynamics of hot nucleus formation and the driving forces for their decay. He gives a preview of a series of collaborative studies of the reaction ⁴⁰Ar + Ag from = 6-34 MeV/nucleon that are in progress with many other people, especially from Carnegie Mellon University, Hope College, Institut des Sciences Nucleaires Grenoble, and, of course, Stony Brook. They are exploiting experimental observations of charged particles and fragments with interpretations based on detailed reaction simulation calculations