The 36th International Conference on High Energy Physics will be held at the Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre, from 4–11 July. 

Melbourne will host physics leaders from around the world, including the directors of the major particle accelerators in Europe, America and Asia.

Director General of CERN, Professor Rolf Heuer says “ICHEP is the most important conference in the particle physics calendar, and it's great that it's happening in Australia for the first time ‐ a sign of that country's growing stature in the field.” 

For any questions relating to the media program, contact Niall Byrne on niall@scienceinpublic.com.au or 03 9398 1416 or AJ Epstein on aj@scienceinpublic.com.au

Press briefing details and background information 
All our press briefings are in Plenary 3, at the Melbourne Convention Centre, South Wharf. We are also hosting a media room upstairs for accredited media.

Join the briefings, webcast via CERN, at http://press.highenergyphysicsmedia.com/webcasts.html on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday:

• In Australia at 8 am AEST and 6 pm AEST (Melbourne time)
  
• In America at 6 pm and 4 am on the East Coast
  
• In Europe at 8 am and 10 pm UTC
  

For those of us without a higher degree in theoretical physics, we’ve got a crack team of friendly physicists to answer your questions and help you understand the science.

These press briefings and all of this week’s plenary sessions will be live-streamed at the conference press website if you can’t make it to the Melbourne Convention Centre. There’s no need to register for that – it will be freely available via the conference media website.

High res images online at http://press.highenergyphysicsmedia.com/image-library.html

Webcasts online at http://press.highenergyphysicsmedia.com/webcasts.html
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