The 28th conference from the Rochester series was the major high energy physics conference in 1996. Volume one contains short reports on new theoretical and experimental results. Volume two consists of the review talks presented in the plenary sessions.

In this volume, recent theoretical and experimental progress in QCD phenomenology, neutrino physics, B physics and CP violation is reviewed. Contents: Lectures: Hadronic Light-Front Wavefunctions and QCD Phenomenology (S J Brodsky); Lectures on the Theory of Non-Leptonic B Decays (M Neubert); Neutrino Physics (P Vogel); Invited Talks: Recent Results from Lattice QCD on CP-PACS (S Aoki); QCD on a Transverse Lattice (M Burkardt & S Seal); QCD at the Tevatron and LHC (J Huston); Rare B Physics Results from BELLE (C H Wang); Recent BCP Progress in Taiwan (H-n Li); QCD-Improved Factorization in Nonleptonic B Decays (J Chay); Rare Radiative B Decays in Perturbative QCD (D Pirjol); Neutrino Experiments: Highlights (H T-K Wong); Neutrinos and Cosmology (S Pakvasa); Embed Zee Neutrino Mass Model into SUSY (K Cheung); Electroweak Sudakov Corrections at 2 Loop Level (H Kawamura). Readership: Graduate students, researchers and academics in particle physics.

In this volume, recent theoretical and experimental progress in QCD phenomenology, neutrino physics, B physics and CP violation is reviewed.

This volume concentrates on three main areas of current research in high energy physics: (1) multiparticle and diffractive production in perturbative and nonperturbative QCD, (2) confinement-deconfinement mechanism and the RHIC physics, and (3) interface between high-energy collisions and cosmic-ray/astro-physics. The specific topics covered include: QCD at high energies, diffractive production, and small-x physics, multiparticle production and systematics: correlations and fluctuations, hadronic final states in e+e-, lepton-hadron and hadron-hadron collisions, relativistic heavy ion collisions, interface between high-energy collisions and cosmic-ray physics, and recent development in deconfinement.

Recent results from all types of high energy colliders (e⁺e⁻, pp, ep) are presented from the view point of electroweak interaction and QCD/Jet physics together with related phenomenological reviews. Expected physics at future colliders, both being built or planned, are also discussed including e+e- linear collider, pp collider and heavy ion collider.