Due to new instruments which are being built or planned, astrophysics will experience a huge boost in very high precision measurements in the near future. This will allow to measure relativistic effects on and around the Earth, strong field effects all over our Universe, and to discover new physical and astrophysical systems. It is needed an improved theoretical understanding also leading to new instruments.
The first Paul Dirac–Lev Landau Meeting, a satellite meeting of the French-Russian workshop in theoretical astrophysics, covers the physics of Black Holes and of Neutron Stars, the evolution of very massive stars, Gamma Ray Bursts and Supernovae, accretion disks and jets, Dark Matter, galaxies and the evolution of the Universe, precision measurements in General Relativity and finally the issue of Quantum Theory and General Relativity. There are a lot of unexplained observations and open conceptual questions which can gain from a new unitary approach. The ultimate issue we are going to consider is the physical constituents of matter as well as the physics of strong gravitational and electromagnetic fields, the matter-energy under highest pressures and densities what represents the cutting edge of our understanding of nature.
