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The first signals of jet quenching were reported in January of 2001 at the Quark Matter meeting. From the early observations of the suppression of leading hadrons, the quenching of jets has advanced into a mature and extensive field with scores of observables that address almost every aspect of a modified jet. The theory of jet quenching has also advanced from single parton formalisms to elaborate multi-stage, multi-scale frameworks which include varying scale dependent interactions between the hard partons of the jet and the constituents of the medium. Extensive comparisons between multi-stage event generators and the large amount of data are nowadays carried out using Bayesian analysis and are beginning to reveal constraints on the degrees of freedom of the quark gluon plasma. In this talk we will focus on the state-of-the-art developments in the theory of jet quenching and the exciting new insights that are being obtained.
