Description
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.
