Professor Guentcho Skordev, CEVIS, University of Bremen, Germany,  will visit the School of Mathematical Sciences, UKZN, within the  period April 2-13, 2007. He will present a talk (possibly divided into two parts) on

We shall describe the main events in the global and local Lefschetz fixed point theory, focusing on the emergence of new ideas and methods, introduced by H. Poincare, L. Brouwer, S. Lefschetz, H. Hopf, J. Schauder, J. Leray, J. v. Neuman, S. Kakutani, L. Vietoris and other famous mathematicians.