| Day-1, Monday, Feb. 12, 2018 (all presentations in Sahara room) |
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| Time | Topic | Presenter | Type/Duration |
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| 7:00-7:45 | Breakfast | Location: B2 Cafe | 45 minutes |
| 8:00-8:55 | Registration | Location: Sahara room | 55 minutes |
| 8:55-9:00 | Welcome/Logistics | Vishnu Reddy (LOC Chair) | 5 minutes |
| 9:00-9:20 | Role of NASA IRTF in NASA Strategic Vision (Planetary Sciences) | Kelly Fast (NASA IRTF Program Scientist) | 15 minutes presentation, 5 minutes questions |
| 9:20-09:40 | Role of NASA IRTF in NASA Strategic Vision (Astrophysics) | Hashima Hasan (NASA Program Scientist for Keck) | 15 minutes presentation, 5 minutes questions |
| 9:40-10:30 | State of the IRTF | John Rayner (IRTF Director) | 30 minutes presentation, 20 minutes questions |
| 10:30-11:00 | Break | | 30 minutes |
| 11:00-12:30 | Planetary Defense |
| 11:00-11:20 | Invited Talk: Utilizing IRTF for Planetary Defense | Cristina Thomas (NAU) | 15+5 minutes |
| 11:20-11:30 | Contributed Talk: MIRSI NEO Survey | D. Trilling (NAU) | 7+3minutes |
| 11:30-11:40 | Contributed Talk: Close Encounters of the Asteroid Kind | N. Moskovitz (Lowell Obs.) | 7+3minutes |
| 11:40-12:30 | Discussion | Chairs: Andy Rivkin (APL), Cristina Thomas (NAU) | 50 minutes |
| 12:30-1:30 | Lunch | Location: B2 Cafe | 1 hour |
| 1:30-3:10 | Small Bodies |
| 1:30-1:50 | Invited Talk: Composition of icy bodies in the outer solar system through the eyes of IRTF: current and future | Silvia Protopapa (SwRI) | 15+5 minutes |
| 1:50-2:00 | Contributed Talk: Small Bodies Observations with SpeX's LXD and iSHELL | Driss Takir (SETI) | 7+3 minutes |
| 2:00-2:10 | Contributed Talk: The IRTF Advantage – Dust in Comet Comae | Chick Woodward (University of Minnesota) | 7+3 minutes |
| 2:10-2:20 | Contributed Talk: The importance of iSHELL/NASA-IRTF for future cometary science: The Target of Opportunity C/2017 E4 | Sara Faggi (GSFC) | 7+3 minutes |
| 2:20-3:10 | Discussion | Chairs: Leslie Young (SwRI) + Audrey Thirouin (Lowell) | 50 minutes |
| 3:10-3:25 | Break | | 15 minutes |
| 3:25-5:00 | Planetary Atmospheres |
| 3:25-3:45 | Invited Talk: Study of Planetary Atmospheres on the NASA IRTF | Ted Kostiuk (GSFC) | 15+5 minutes |
| 3:45-3:55 | Contributed Talk: Observations of the Venusian atmosphere by IRTF together with Akatsuki/JAXA | Y. J. Lee (U. of Tokyo Chiba) | 7+3 minutes |
| 3:55-4:05 | Contributed Talk: Future Study of Mars’ Atmosphere Using the NASA-IRTF | R. Novak (Iona College) | 7+3 minutes |
| 4:05-4:15 | Contributed Talk: Future of Planetary High Resolution Spectroscopy in the Context of ELT and JWST | Geronimo Villanueva (GSFC) | 7+3 minutes |
| 4:15-5:00 | Discussion | Chairs: Eliot Young (SwRI) + Geronimo Villanueva (GSFC) | 45 minutes |
| 5:00-5:15 | Break | | 15 minutes |
| 5:15-6:00 | Mission Support |
| 5:15-5:35 | Invited Talk: Earth-Based Support for NASA's Outer-Planet Missions | Glenn Orton (JPL) | 15+5 minutes |
| 5:35-5:45 | Discussion: IRTF Support for Astrophysics Missions | Chair: John Rayner (IRTF) | 10 minutes |
| 5:45-6:00 | Day 1 - Summary |
| 5:45-6:00 | Day-1 Summary | Sessions Chairs | 15 minutes |
| 6:00-7:00 | University of Arizona Reception in B2 Lower Habitat |
| 7:00-8:00 | Dinner in B2 Lower Habitat |
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| Day-2, Tuesday, Feb. 13, 2018 (all presentations in Sahara room) |
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| Time | Topic | Presenter | Type/Duration |
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| 7:00-7:45 | Breakfast | Location: B2 Cafe | 45 minutes |
| 8:00-9:30 | Exoplanets |
| 8:00-8:20 | Invited Talk:IRTF for exoplanets: from stellar parameters to radial velocities | Elisabeth Newton (MIT) | 15+5 minutes |
| 8:20-8:30 | Contributed Talk: Precision Stellar Astrophysics and Exoplanet Science in the Gaia Era | Dan Huber (University of Hawaii) | 7+3 minutes |
| 8:30-8:40 | Contributed Talk: Precise Radial Velocities with iSHELL Update | Peter Plavchan (George Mason U.) | 7+3 minutes |
| 8:40-8:50 | Contributed Talk: Searching for signatures of hot Jupiters | Laura Flagg (Rice University) | 7+3 minutes |
| 8:50-9:30 | Discussion | Chairs: Lisa Prato (Lowell), Christopher Johns-Krull (Rice) | 40 minutes |
| 9:30-9:45 | Break | | 15 minutes |
| 9:45-11:15 | Star and Planet Formation |
| 9:45-10:05 | Invited Talk: Star and Planet Formation with the IRTF | Christopher Johns-Krull (Rice) | 15+5 minutes |
| 10:05-10:15 | Contributed Talk: Spectro-astrometry with iSHELL | S. Brittain (Clemson University) | 7+3 minutes |
| 10:15-10:25 | Contributed Talk: Synoptic Observations of Young Planet-Building Disks | M. Sitko (University of Cincinnati) | 7+3 minutes |
| 10:25-11:15 | Discussion | Chairs: Lisa Prato (Lowell), John Carr (NRL) | 50 minutes |
| 11:15-12:45 | Lunch | Location: B2 Cafe | 75 minutes |
| 12:45-2:15 | Stellar and Substellar Astrophysics |
| 12:45-1:05 | Invited Talk:Substellar and Stellar Astrophysics beyond the Era of Gaia, TESS, and LSST | Andrew Mann (UT) | 15+5 minutes |
| 1:05-1:15 | Contributed Talk: Future Capabilities of IRTF for Low-mass Stars, Brown Dwarfs and Exoplanetary Science | A.Burgasser (UCSD) | 7+3 minutes |
| 1:15-1:25 | Contributed Talk: Next Generation Stellar Population Synthesis Models with IRTF | A. Villaume (UCSC) | 7+3 minutes |
| 1:25-2:15 | Discussion | Chairs: Adam Burgasser (UC) and Dan Huber (UH) | 50 minutes |
| 2:15-2:30 | Break | | 15 minutes |
| 2:30-4:00 | Imaging/Spectroscopic instrumentation |
| 2:30-2:50 | Invited Talk: Future Directions for IRTF Imaging and Spectroscopic Instrumentation | Matt Richter (UCD) | 15+5 minutes |
| 2:50-3:00 | Contributed Talk: Robotic laser adaptive optics forrapid, near-HST resolution imaging from the IRTF | C. Baranec (University of Hawaii) | 7+3 minutes |
| 3:00-3:10 | Contributed Talk: The role of high angular resolution in planetary science | A. Conrad (LBT) | 7+3 minutes |
| 3:10-3:20 | Contributed Talk: Infrared Polarimetry with the IRTF | T. Jones (University of Minnesota) | 7+3 minutes |
| 3:20-3:35 | Break | | 15 minutes |
| 3:35-3:45 | Contributed Talk: SPECTRE: A low-resolution spectrograph concept for IRTF | M. Connelley (University of Hawaii) | 7+3 minutes |
| 3:45-4:35 | Discussion | Chairs: John Rayner/ Mike Connelley (Hawaii) | 50 minutes |
| 4:35-5:00 | Day 2 - Summary |
| 5:00-5:30 | Day-2 Summary | Session Chairs | 30 minutes |
| 7:00-8:00 | Dinner in B2 Lower Habitat |
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| Day-3, Wednesday, Feb. 14, 2018 (all presentations in Sahara room) |
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| Time | Topic | Presenter | Type/Duration |
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| 7:00-7:45 | Breakfast | Location: B2 Cafe | 45 minutes |
| 8:00-9:30 | Emerging Topics/Time Domain |
| 8:00-8:20 | Invited Talk: Exploring the Dynamic Infrared Sky with Gattini-IR | Ryan Lau (JPL) | 15+5 minutes |
| 8:20-8:30 | Contributed Talk: High time-resolution imaging and spectroscopy at IRTF | Amanda Bosh (MIT) | 7+3 minutes |
| 8:30-8:40 | Contributed Talk: Planetary Astronomy in 2018-2028: Future Directions for NASA’s IRTF in the Era of ELTs | Michael Mumma (GSFC) | 7+3 minutes |
| 8:40-8:50 | Contributed Talk: Jovian H3+ auroral dynamics and Io volcanic activity obtained with IRTF and Haleakala telescopes | T. Sakanoi (Tohuku University) | 7+3 minutes |
| 8:50-9:00 | Contributed Talk: Synergies with IRTF and SOFIA | E. Becklin (SOFIA/USRA) | 7+3 minutes |
| 9:00-10:30 | Discussion | Chairs: Amanda Bosh/Michael Mumma | 90 minutes |
| 10:30-10:45 | Break | | 15 minutes |
| 10:45-12:00 | Workshop Deliverables |
| 10:45-11:30 | White Paper Discussion | Sessions Chairs | 45 minutes |
| 11:30-12:00 | Closing Remarks/Writing Assignments | | 30 minutes |
| 12:00-1:00 | Lunch | Location: B2 Cafe | 1 hour |
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