Deconfined holographic quark matter and neutron stars Niko Jokela The behavior of matter in neutron star densities is an unsolved problem in nuclear and particle physics despite decades of effort. New approaches are direly needed. Holographic techniques are particularly fit to analyzing matter at such extreme conditions where QCD matter is strongly coupled. Indeed, lessons for nuclear and unpaired quark matter phases have been extracted from the gauge/gravity duality. In this talk I will briefly report on these insights on the unpaired quark matter phase, including transport phenomena, while the nuclear matter phase is deferred to a talk by Dr. Järvinen. I will also discuss recent work on establishing gravity duals of phases that result from finite density Higgs mechanism aka color superconducting phases.