Now in its third year, the NYU Abu Dhabi Institute — which serves as NYUAD's public forum and research arm — has announced its fall lineup of public programs. Beginning tonight with "Global Finance After the Crisis," a lecture led by Ingo Walter, vice dean of Stern School of Business and Finance at NYU New York, the lineup includes events that will examine a wide range of topics, such as information security and privacy, public policy in developing countries, and the role of ethics in science.

In addition to bringing together faculty and students from institutions of higher learning throughout the region, the public programs establish "an outlet for intellectual discourse and knowledge exchange within the Abu Dhabi community," said Philip Kennedy, faculty director at the NYUAD Institute, something that has been a priority for NYUAD.

Lineup of events:

Global Finance after the Crisis (lecture)
September 16, 2010 | 7-9pm | Al Mamoura Auditorium, Abu Dhabi

Metaphor to Model: What Victorians Understood about Markets that Modern Economists Often Miss (lecture)
September 26, 2010 | 7-9pm | Al Mamoura Auditorium, Abu Dhabi

Interdisciplinary Studies in Information Security and Privacy (workshop)
October 3-4, 2010 | NYUAD downtown campus

Understanding Privacy in Context (conversations with authors)
October 4, 2010 | 7-9pm | Al Mamoura Auditorium, Abu Dhabi

The Future is Now: Making Art/Thinking Ecology (lecture)
October 10, 2010 | 7-9pm | Al Mamoura Auditorium, Abu Dhabi

The Ethical Brain (lecture)
October 20, 2010 | 7-9pm | Al Mamoura Auditorium, Abu Dhabi

The Use of Economics on Environmental Policy (conversations with authors)
October 27, 2010 | 7-9pm | Al Mamoura Auditorium, Abu Dhabi