The XVIII International Conference on Strangeness in Quark Matter (SQM 2019)

This book focuses on new experimental and theoretical advances concerning the role of strange and heavy-flavour quarks in high-energy heavy-ion collisions and in astrophysical phenomena. 

The topics covered include 

•Strangeness and heavy-quark production in nuclear collisions and hadronic interactions, 

•Hadron resonances in the strongly-coupled partonic and hadronic medium, 

•Bulk matter phenomena associated with strange and heavy quarks, 

•QCD phase structure, 

•Collectivity in small systems, 

•Strangeness in astrophysics,

•Open questions and new developments.