This five-day conference is honouring Professor Jacques Hurtubise on the occasion of his 60th birthday by focusing on some of the main themes to which he has contributed in his exceptionally rich research career, namely gauge theories, monopoles, moduli spaces and integrable systems. The conference brings together world leaders in these fields and many former students and post-doctoral Fellows who have been generously mentored by Jacques over the course of his career, and who have moved on to distinguished careers of their own.