The Herschel Astrophysical Terahertz Large Area Survey (ATLAS) is
the biggest open time key project on the Herschel Space Observatory
with very wide-ranging science goals, from finding debris disks around
nearby stars to resolving galaxy proto-clusters detected by the Planck
satellite. In this talk I will present some of the first results from
ATLAS, focussing mainly on the multiwavelength work in my research
group at the Open University, including the cosmic star formation
history of quasar host galaxies and a revolutionary new technique
for finding strong gravitational lenses.