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Abstract:

I will summarize the current status and future plans for the world’s largest sub millimeter telescope, the JCMT. The JCMT provides a powerful suite of instruments for wide-field mapping, heterodyne spectroscopy, and very long baseline interferometry. These have been used extensively and with high impact including the discovery and characterization of sub millimeter galaxies, studies of star-formation and galaxy evolution, and the first images of the black holes in M87 and Sgr A* with the Event Horizon Telescope. New observing programs in the areas of VLBI, time domain science, and intensity mapping will play key roles in the future of the JCMT.