Prof. David Blaschke, prof. Ludwik Turko

Strange world of dense quark matter

We are going to present main points of the last International Conference on Strangeness in Quark Matter – SQM 09, Buzios, Brasil. The conference was devoted to the recent theoretical and experimental progress in understanding the production and properties of strange and heavy flavor (charm, beauty) quarks in high-energy nuclear collisions and in astrophysical phenomena, as well as in elementary processes. Properties of the strongly interacting quark-gluon plasma, recent advances in heavy-ion collisions at lower energies, the future heavy-ion program at CERN/LHC, and astrophysical objects in view of strangeness and heavy flavors were also topics of the conference.