The XVIII International Conference on Strangeness in Quark Matter (SQM 2019) Intro Organizing Institutions Organizing Committee International Advisory Committee Conference Chair Organizing Committee Secretariat and Support Preface Contents Part IOpening 1 ROY GLAUBER: In Memoriam the Glauber Model in High Energy Nucleus Nucleus Collisions 1.1 The Glauber Model 1.2 Participant Spectator and Collision Number 1.3 Bevalac Physics: Carved Out Fireballs Rows on Rows 1.4 Asymmetric Collision Systems 1.5 The Glauber Relation Between langleNchargerangle langleNpart rangle and Impact Parameter langlebrangle 1.6 Elliptic Flow Initialization References Part IIHighlights from Theory and Experiments 2 Recent Results from HADES 2.1 Merging Neutron Stars in the Laboratory: Au+Au Collisions at sqrtsNN=2.4 GeV 2.2 HADES 2.3 Bulk Properties and Light Nuclei 2.4 Flavour Production 2.5 FAIR Phase 0 References 3 BM@N First Results 3.1 Nuclotron Heavy Ion Physics Program 3.2 BM@N Detector for Studies of Baryonic Matter at the Nuclotron 3.3 First Results of the BM@N Runs References 4 Hyperons in Thermal QCD from the Lattice 4.1 Introduction 4.2 Parity in Baryons 4.3 Lattice Parameters 4.4 Results 4.5 Conclusion References 5 Recent Results from NA61 SHINE 5.1 The NA61 SHINE Facility 5.2 Study of the Onset of Deconfinement 5.2.1 Particle Production Properties 5.2.2 Flow 5.3 Search for the Critical Point 5.4 Strangeness Production in P+p Interactions at 158 GeV c 5.4.1 Ξ Production 5.4.2 Search for Pentaquark Candidates References 6 Recent Heavy Flavor Results from STAR 6.1 Introduction 6.2 Nuclear Modification Factors for D0 6.3 D_s D0 Λ_c D0 Yield Ratios 6.4 D0 Elliptic Flow (v_2) and Directed Flow (v_1) 6.5 Measurements of R_AA for B decayed J ψ D0 and e.