Date: 1 November 2013, 4:30pm Location: Hempfield High School, Room 213 Speaker: John McCleary, Vassar College Title: A Reprise on the Closed Geodesics Problem Abstract. The advent of new structure on the homology of the free loop space, string topology, has produced new tools with which to study the closed geodesics problem. The talk will consider how the new tools can be applied and illuminate what we know to date on the problem. Joint work with John D.S. Jones.