Hadrons in dense matter and hadrosynthesis : proceedings of the eleventh Chris Engelbrecht summer school held in Cape Town, South Africa, 4-13 February 1998

Pion and Kaon Production as a Probe for the Hot and Dense Nuclear Matter.-Fluid Dynamics for Relativistic Nuclear Collisions.-The Use of Statistical Mechanics to Describe Hadron Production in High Energy Collisions.-Introduction to Light Cone Field Theory and High Energy Scattering.-Chiral Symmetry Breaking in Hot Matter.-Physics and Astrophysics of Strange Quark Matter.-Out of Equilibrium Thermal Field Theories-Elimination of Pinching Singularities.-Exact Conservation of Quantum Numbers in the Statistical Description of High Energy Particle Reactions.