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Over the coming decade, measurements of arc-minute scale temperature and polarization fluctuations will not only be an important tool for studying physical conditions in the early universe, but also a powerful probe of the growth of structure and of the physics of the intergalactic medium. The Atacama Cosmology Telescope (ACT) is conducting an arc-minute survey of >1000 square-degrees of sky at 148, 218, and 277 GHz. In the first part of this talk I give an overview of the ACT science goals, facility, and survey. In the second part of the talk I will detail our progress towards reducing the 148 GHz data from time-ordered-data to a power spectrum and SZ cluster catalog. |