Quantum cohomology of isotropic Grassmannians -- Harry Tamvakis, November 1, 2002

We describe the main results about the small quantum cohomology rings of Lagrangian and orthogonal Grassmannians: the ring presentation, quantum Pieri and Giambelli formulas, and the relation between the Gromov-Witten invariants in both cases (joint work with Andrew Kresch). We will also discuss a recent extension of these results to sub-maximal isotropic Grassmannians, which is work in progress (with Anders Buch and Kresch).