The XVIII International Conference on Strangeness in Quark Matter SQM 2019

<div>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. </div><div><br></div><div>The topics covered include </div><div><br></div><div>•Strangeness and heavy-quark production in nuclear collisions and hadronic interactions, </div><div>•Hadron resonances in the strongly-coupled partonic and hadronic medium, </div><div>•Bulk matter phenomena associated with strange and heavy quarks, </div><div>•QCD phase structure, </div><div>•Collectivity in small systems, </div><div>•Strangeness in astrophysics,</div><div>•Open questions and new developments. </div><div><br></div><ul> </ul>