The history of star formation in dusty galaxies

Andrew Blain
Caltech

I will discuss some of the key issues for determining the evolution
of the far-infrared luminosity in the Universe from submm surveys,
especially the relevant selection effects and the importance and difficult
of determining redshifts. `Photometric redshifts' from
multicolor far-infrared data and radio-submm methods, and the potential of
probing evolution using GRBs and future investigations of the submm
sky using gravitational lensing, including weak lensing, will be
discussed