Education
University of Oxford.
University of Oxford.
His research interests include moduli spaces, integrable systems, and Riemann surfaces. Among other contributions, he is known for proving the Atiyah–Jones conjecture. After undergraduate studies at the Université de Montréal, Hurtubise became a Rhodes Scholar at the University of Oxford for 1978–1981, and earned a Doctor of Philosophy from Oxford in 1982, supervised by Nigel Hitchin, with a dissertation concerning links between algebraic geometry and differential geometry.
Following his Doctor of Philosophy, he taught at the Université du Québec à Montréal until 1988, when he moved to McGill.
He has also been director of the Centre de Recherches Mathématiques. In 2004 he became a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, and in 2012, he became one of the inaugural fellows of the American Mathematical Society.
