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.Contents:New Results in Spectroscopy (R Landua)Soft Interactions and Diffraction Phenomena (V Levonian)Spin Structure of the Nucleon (J Nassalski)Tests of Q at Low x (H Abramowicz)High pT Q Physics Results from the Tevatron (R Brock)Status of the Strong Coupling Constant (M Schmelling)Hard Scattering in Q (G Sterman)Experimental Top Quark Physics (P L Tipton)Progress in Understanding Heavy Flavour Decays (J D Richman)Theoretical Review of Heavy Flavour Physics (G Martinelli)Status of Weak Quark Mixing (L K Gibbons)Experimental Tests of the Electroweak Theory (A Blondel)Electroweak Interactions — Theory (S Pokorski)Flavour Changing Neutral Current Processes (A J Buras)Neutrino Masses and Oscillations — Experiment (Y Suzuki)Neutrino Masses and Oscillations — Theory (A Yu Smirnov)Searches for New Particles (P Mättig)Recent Developments in Non-Perturbative Quantum Field Theory (S Ferrara)Development in Lattice Q (J Flynn)Supersymmetry and (Grand) Unification (G G Ross)Non-Supersymmetric Extensions of the Standard Model (K Lane)High Energy Nuclear Interactions and Heavy Ion Collisions (R Stock)Experimental Particle Astrophysics (M Spiro)Zeroing in on the Fundamental Parameters of Cosmology (R J Scherrer)New Experimental Techniques and Detectors (E Iarocci)Future Colliders (R B Palmer)Summary and Outlook (G Veneziano)and other papersReadership: Researchers and students of high energy physics.