Dear Professor ...., I confirm my invitation / I would like to invite you to our "Fred Jelinek Seminar Series" lecture. For the Fall of 2011/2 [...], the following dates are still open: Oct. 24 Nov. 28 Dec. 12 Jan. 9 (2012) ... We do not have fixed dates for the spring, but it will be on 6-7 Mondays Feb. 20 to May 18 (if you suggest one, we can fix it and go from there :-)). Please let me know if any of these dates would work for you. The topic of your talk at the seminar is, of course, completely up to you. We will arrange for (and bear the costs of) the accommodation, and pay/reimburse the travel and local expenses for you. However, we do not pay any other speaker's fee/honorarium/renumeration. Also, as I said, it'd be nice in fact if you can stay a day or at least a half a day longer, to talk to our students and staff. At some future point in time, we'd like to get an abstract of your talk, a short bio and a photo for the web & poster which we will use for tadvertising the lecture at the University. I hope you can accept this invitation! With best regards, Sincerely, ......................... [name] UFAL MFF UK (Charles University in Prague) Malosranske nam. 25 11800 Prague 1 Czech Republic http://ufal.mff.cuni.cz