Title: Weak closure and Oliver's p-group conjecture Authors: David J. Green (Jena, Germany) and Justin Lynd (Ohio State) Abstract: To date almost all verifications of Oliver's p-group conjecture have proceeded by verifying a stronger conjecture about weakly closed quadratic subgroups. We construct a group of order 3^n for n = 49 which refutes the weakly closed conjecture but satisfies Oliver's conjecture. Status: Submitted.