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. 

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