Quantum Cohomology under Birational Maps and Transitions

This is an expanded version of the third author's lecture in String-Math 2015 at Sanya. It summarizes some of our works in quantum cohomology. After reviewing the quantum Lefschetz and quantum Leray--Hirsch, we discuss their applications to the functoriality properties under special smooth flops, flips and blow-ups. Finally, for conifold transitions of Calabi--Yau 3-folds, formulations for small resolutions (blow-ups along Weil divisors) are sketched.
Comment: 20 pages. A contribution to "Proceedings of the String-Math 2015 Conference" to be published in AMS Proceedings of Symposia in Pure Mathematics