2026-07-072026-07-07http://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/148384These are notes from a jointly taught class at the University of Chicago and lectures by the first author in Santa Cruz. Topics covered include: construction of moduli spaces of stable maps, Gromov-Witten invariants, quantum cohomology, and examples. These notes will appear in the proceedings of the 1995 Santa Cruz conference.Latex2e 52 pages. Final versionAlgebraic GeometryNotes on stable maps and quantum cohomologytext