MATRIX [http://www.matrixatmelbourne.org.au] is a new research institute outside of Melbourne, VIC, Australia. The first program will be held from June 5 — 18, 2016, and will consist of a workshop and a conference. At the workshop there will be six mini-courses, each consisting of 2 or 3 talks. Workshop June 6 — 10. Higher Structures. Clark Barwick: Parametrised Higher Category Theory and Parametrised Higher Algebra Philip Hackney & Marcy Robertson: infinity properads Ralph Kaufmann: Feynman categories Martin Markl: Operad-like structures, pasting schemes and graph complexes Emily Riehl: weak complicial sets Victor Turchin: Embedding calculus and the little discs operads Conference June 15 — 17. Higher Structures: Advances. Registration is now open at the MATRIX webpage [http://www.matrixatmelbourne.org.au/events/higher-structures-in-geometry-and...] (be sure to add all events that you will attend to your ‘cart’), but space is limited. Funding is only available to invitees. MATRIX can help arrange accommodation for other participants. Best regards, Philip Hackney and Marcy Robertson [For admin and other information see: http://www.mta.ca/~cat-dist/ ]