Meetings

Dinner, a talk, and the people in the room

Name: SME Southern California dinner with Peter Landi, MP Materials
Start: 2026-11-12T18:00:00-08:00
End: 2026-11-12T21:00:00-08:00
Location: Dave & Buster's

Section meetings are how this group does its work: a dinner, time to talk, and a technical speaker. Students and industry guests are invited. Registration is local.

Upcoming

Thursday, November 12, 2026

Speaker: Peter Landi, SVP Engineering, MP Materials. The evening is the section’s MP Materials rare-earth mine dinner. Tickets and any further program notes are on the registration page.

When 6–9 PM Pacific
Where Dave & Buster’s
4821 Mills Circle
Ontario, CA 91764
Students $15
General $45

Map to 4821 Mills Circle

Aerial view of the Mountain Pass rare-earth mine and processing facility in California desert mountains. — Mountain Pass rare-earth mine and processing facility, California — the operation behind the November 12 talk. Photograph by Tmy350, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons. Reduced-resolution copy.

Rock from the Mountain Pass district

Two specimens from the same California district. The bastnäsite piece is a small reference thumbnail, shown at its real size rather than stretched.

Dark crystalline shonkinite hand specimen from the Mountain Pass alkaline suite, California. — Shonkinite, Mountain Pass alkaline suite, California. Photograph by James St. John, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons. Reduced-resolution copy.

Small pink-brown bastnäsite specimen with limonite, barite, and calcite from Mountain Pass, near Baker, California. — Bastnäsite with limonite, barite, and calcite. Mountain Pass, near Baker, San Bernardino County. Original file is 700 × 700 pixels and is not enlarged. Photograph by Dave Dyet. Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

Earlier meetings on record

Only dates that came from section correspondence are listed. Speakers are omitted where the source did not name one.

September 17, 2026 — dinner, Ontario, California

Taken from September 10 correspondence. That note did not name a speaker or a program, so none is listed here.

June 17, 2026 — lunch

Taken from a May 13 RSVP. Venue and speaker were not in that source.

What a technical evening looks like

The audience photograph is a stock picture of a conference, used only to suggest the format. It is not a SoCal SME dinner, and the people in it are not section members. The underground photograph is the Empire Mine in Grass Valley, a California hard-rock gold mine, not the November venue.

People seated at long tables in a conference room, facing a presenter. A generic meeting, not a Southern California SME dinner. — A technical audience — illustrative only. Photograph by Matheus Bertelli, Pexels License.

Timbered underground drift with rail tracks at the main shaft of the Empire Mine, Grass Valley, California. — Main shaft, Empire Mine, Grass Valley, California. Photograph by Викидим, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.