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The Large Hadron Collider at CERN will collide protons at \sqrt{s} = 14 TeV and lead ions at \sqrt{s_NN} = 5.5 TeV. The new energy regime will allow us to significantly extend and enhance our knowledge of the behavior of the strongly interacting hot nuclear matter recently observed in the heavy-ion collisions at RHIC. The physics program of the Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) includes the study of heavy-ion collisions. The high energies
available at the LHC will allow high statistics studies of the dense partonic system with hard probes: heavy quarks and quarkonia with an emphasis on the b and Upsilon, high p_T jets, photons, as well as Z bosons. I will present the physics goals of the heavy-ion program at the LHC including examples of the planned physics measurements using the CMS apparatus.