Alexander A. Voronov
 	          University of Minnesota

Morse Theoretic Viewpoint on String Topology, Part II: Relation to Gromov-Witten

Abstract: This is the second of the two talk I am planning to give on
the papers "Strong topology and Morse theory on the loop space" and
"Morse theory, graphs, and string topology" by R. Cohen and "On the
Floer homology of cotangent bundles" by A. Abbondandolo and
M. Schwarz.  The goal of the talks is to develop the algebraic
operations arising on the homology of a loop space in string topology
(due to M. Chas and D. Sullivan) using Morse theoretic approach to
homology, as well as the relationship between string topology and
Gromov-Witten theory.

In the second talk, I will discuss cylindrical flow lines, the
resulting string topology operations, and cylindrical holomorphic
curves in the cotangent space. This will relate the string topology of
a manifold to the Gromov-Witten theory of the cotangent bundle.