Abstract
The Large Millimetre Telescope (LMT), or Gran Telescopio Milimétrico (GTM), is approaching the final stage of construction, and the fabrication and installation of the surface panels will begin shortly. In this paper the current status of the LMT project is summarised, including the plans to commission two of the first-light LMT instruments (AzTEC and SPEED) on other (sub-)millimetre telescopes. The designed capabilities of the LMT and the atmospheric stability and transparency above the observing site on Volcán Sierra Negra (Mexico), combined with the performance of the suite of LMT instrumentation will provide very fast mapping-speeds and high-angular resolution for a single-dish millimetre-wavelength telescope. One of the primary scientific goals of the LMT, namely to measure the formation and evolution of extragalactic structure in the Universe over a wide-range of physical-scales, will exploit these advantages. Examples of cosmological millimetre-wavelength surveys that will trace the large-scale distribution of high-redshift optically-obscured starburst galaxies and anistropies in the CMB induced by massive clusters are presented.
