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SUMMARY:Half Century Club Celebration
DESCRIPTION:Come back to Pasadena for a weekend of activities celebrating Half Century Club alumni and the newest Half Century Club inductees from the Class of 1976. The Half Century Club includes all alumni (of all degrees!) who graduated 50 or more years ago. Events will include recognition of the milestone classes\, sessions with beloved faculty\, House gatherings with current students\, and more! \nThursday\, May 14 to Sunday\, May 17\, 2026\n			\n			\n				\n				\n				\n				\n			\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				Learn More
URL:https://www.alumni.caltech.edu/event/hcc-2026/
LOCATION:California Insitute of Technology\, 1200 East California Boulevard\, Pasadena\, CA\, 91125\, United States
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ORGANIZER;CN="Caltech Alumni Relations":MAILTO:info@alumni.caltech.edu
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SUMMARY:LA South Bay Techers Monthly Lunch (May)
DESCRIPTION:Meet fellow alumni for lunch\, connect with others in your field\, talk science\, and share Caltech memories. Whether you want to discuss research\, revisit campus stories\, or meet new Techers in the area\, it’s a great way to stay engaged. \nThis month’s meetup: Thursday\, May 14\, 11:45 a.m.–1:15 p.m.Location: Brewport Tap House & Kitchen\, 204 Main Street\, El Segundo\, CA 90245Menu: Available on Brewport’s website. \n			\n			\n				\n				\n				\n				\n			\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				Register here
URL:https://www.alumni.caltech.edu/event/la-south-bay-techers-monthly-lunch-may/
LOCATION:Brewport Tap House & Kitchen\, 204 Main Street\, El Segundo\, CA\, 90245\, United States
CATEGORIES:Caltech Together
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ORGANIZER;CN="Rhonda MacDonald (BS '74)":MAILTO:RLMSLL@roadrunner.com
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SUMMARY:Milestone Class Dinners
DESCRIPTION:Join your fellow Techers on Friday\, May 15\, 2026\, for the Milestone Class Dinners at the beautiful Athenaeum on the Caltech campus. Milestone dinners will join the spring schedule in 2026 along with campus tours\, house happy hours\, Seminar Day\, and more. This year’s celebration highlights all graduating classes ending in ‘1 and ‘6 and will be open to all milestone class members and any other alumni and guests who want to join the celebration—and that includes your class! \nDinners are open to all milestone class members and any other alumni and guests who want to join the celebration. \nFriday\, May 15\, 20264:00–9:00 p.m. (PT)Student Houses and the Athenaeum\n 
URL:https://www.alumni.caltech.edu/event/milestone-class-dinners-26/
LOCATION:California Insitute of Technology\, 1200 East California Boulevard\, Pasadena\, CA\, 91125\, United States
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ORGANIZER;CN="Caltech Alumni Relations":MAILTO:info@alumni.caltech.edu
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SUMMARY:Seminar Day
DESCRIPTION:Join the Caltech community for the 89th Annual Seminar Day on May 16. This one-day hybrid event will bring together the Caltech community from around the world to learn about the latest research and discoveries from Caltech faculty\, alumni\, and current students across various fields of science\, technology\, engineering\, and more. Hear engaging faculty lectures from all Divisions\, check out presentations from undergraduate and graduate student research\, visit exciting labs\, and tour the beautiful campus. Return to Beckman Auditorium for a full day of talks\, questions\, and answers — or join virtually and stream all sessions from anywhere the world! \nSaturday\, May 16\, 20267:30 a.m. – 5:30 p.m. (PST)Beckman Auditorium and Online\n			\n			\n				\n				\n				\n				\n			\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				Learn More
URL:https://www.alumni.caltech.edu/event/seminar-day-2026/
LOCATION:California Insitute of Technology\, 1200 East California Boulevard\, Pasadena\, CA\, 91125\, United States
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ORGANIZER;CN="Caltech Alumni Relations":MAILTO:info@alumni.caltech.edu
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SUMMARY:Caltech Together: Washington\, DC
DESCRIPTION:A Morning at the National Gallery of Art\nMeet up with fellow Techers in the Washington\, DC area for a guided museum experience at the National Gallery of Art. This gathering will be hosted by Susan Chen (MS ’00) and continues a series of Caltech Together events in DC\, following last year’s museum meetup at the National Academy of Sciences. The program will feature a guided tour of America 250\, the National Gallery’s collection of American art in the West Building\, offering a focused look at works that reflect the nation’s artistic and cultural history. This event offers a small-group setting to connect with other Techers while exploring one of the country’s leading art collections. \nAdvance registration required. \n			\n				Register
URL:https://www.alumni.caltech.edu/event/caltech-together-washington-d-c/
LOCATION:National Gallery of Art\, 6th Street and Constitution Avenue NW\, Washington\, DC\, DC\, 20565\, United States
CATEGORIES:Caltech Together
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ORGANIZER;CN="Susan Chen (MS %E2%80%9900)":MAILTO:zwschen@gmail.com
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SUMMARY:Caltech Together: Silicon Valley
DESCRIPTION:“AI Agents as Universal Task Solvers”\nThursday\, May 21\, 202611:30 a.m.–1:30 p.m. \nMoore Foundation1661 Page Mill RoadPalo Alto\, CA 94304 \nTo attend\, please click this link to register for the event. \nRSVP by May 17\, 2026Price: $32 per personAttendance is capped at 80 people \nThe catered lunch will include an assortment of sandwiches and salads. Drinks will be provided by the Moore Foundation. \n“AI Agents as Universal Task Solvers”by Stefano Soatto\, VP at AWS Agentic AI\nScaling laws predict that AI agents will steadily improve and eventually exceed human performance across a wide range of tasks. Yet at the limit lies a form of inference that involves no intelligence at all: with enough compute and memory\, a model can brute-force any verifiable task without learning anything. This raises a basic question: if scaling alone does not foster intelligence\, what does? \nI will argue that the answer is time. Building on results by Solomonoff and Levin\, I will show that the value of learning is measured not by a reduction in uncertainty — as in classical induction — but by a reduction in the time needed to solve new tasks. Data can make a universal solver exponentially faster\, with the speed-up governed by the algorithmic mutual information between past experience and unforeseen tasks. \nConnecting these ideas to modern AI requires rethinking what computation means for large language models. I will show that LLMs are maximalistic models of computation — universal\, like Turing Machines\, but operating through entirely different mechanisms. Once time is properly accounted for\, scaling laws reveal an inversion: beyond a critical point\, increasing resources improve benchmark accuracy while diminishing conceptual depth — a savant regime in which models improve while learning less. \nAbout the Speaker\nStefano Soatto is a Vice President at AWS Agentic AI\, and a Professor of Computer Science at UCLA. He received his PhD in Control and Dynamical Systems from the California Institute of Technology (MS ’93\, PhD ’96)\, his D.Ing from the University of Padova\, Italy\, and was a postdoctoral scholar at Harvard University. He is a Fellow of the ACM and of the IEEE. \nTo attend\, please click this link to register for the event. \n			\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				Our Alumni Volunteers‍\nThe following alumni work together to serve you: Avni Gandhi\, Dave Adler\, Eilleen Zhang\, Jane Frommer\, Ralph Pursifull\, Reeya Chenanda\, Susan Huynh\, and Peter Tong. \n			\n				Register for the Event
URL:https://www.alumni.caltech.edu/event/caltech-together-silicon-valley-may-2026/
LOCATION:Moore Foundation\, 1661 Page Mill Road\, Palo Alto\, CA\, 94304\, United States
CATEGORIES:Caltech Together
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