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Fall 2025

Morissette, David E.N.

This portfolio contains David Morissette's most substantial musical works of 2023-2025, all written during his time in the Master of Music program at the University of Alberta. Audio and a video of the composition performances can be found here: https://ualberta.aviaryplatform.com/r/rv0cv4dv5g

Spring 2024

Tchoh, Bennett Kuwan

The severe acute respiratory syndrome caused by the SARS coronavirus was declared a pandemic in March 2020 by the World Health Organisation. Alberta as other provinces and countries had to face the challenge of fighting this syndrome that caused what is commonly known as the COVID-19 pandemic....

Spring 2024

Karki, Bigyan

Chinese Checkers, a traditional game played on a star-shaped board by 2-6 players, has been a domain for game AI research and has been strongly solved up to a 6×6 board with 6 pieces per player in a two-player game. In this work, we apply the AlphaZero algorithm, known for its success in perfect...

Spring 2024

Harrigan, Atticus

This dissertation investigates the underpinnings of the phenomenon of Order in Nêhiyawêwin (Plains Cree) using quantitative methods and the Ahenakew-Wolfart Corpus (Arppe, Schmirler, Harrigan, & Wolvengrey, 2020). Instantiated as person-marking allomorphy on the verb, Order is central to verb...

Spring 2024

Madhusoodanan, Nived

Data has become an integral part of analysis and decision-making across various disciplines including health, economy, biology, process systems engineering, and sports. Despite the abundance of big data, the identification of the fundamental source of disruption in process systems engineering...

Spring 2024

Vasquez Aldana, Adriana Marcela

Oil Sands Process Water (OSPW) is a byproduct generated during the extraction of bitumen from oil sands deposits in Northern Alberta, Canada. This matrix presents a critical environmental and industrial challenge due to its toxic nature, primarily associated with its complex mixture of...

Spring 2024

Der, Eric T.

In order to meet the growing demands for faster and more reliable wireless communication networks, as well as to connect the billions of new devices that will require on demand access to the internet, the telecommunication industry seeks to expand the current wireless communication infrastructure...

Spring 2024

Pigeon, Josh

Globally, climate change is affecting species in a myriad of ways. Rapid morphological change has been proposed to be a consequence of climate change, but evidence is minimal. Furthermore, any such rapid morphological change is expected to be a phenotypic response rather than evolutionary....

Spring 2024

Baron Bello, Ambar Lennon

Double wythe masonry cavity walls consist of two masonry wythes, an exterior layer typically made of clay-backed or ceramic bricks (veneer) and the inner layer composed of concrete masonry units (CMU), which serves as a structural backup. In typical cavity wall design, the two wythes are assumed...

Spring 2024

Ukaigwe, Sandra A

The current drive for energy neutrality, drastic reduction in energy costs and increasingly stringent wastewater discharge rules has led to the quest for the development of more energy efficient and effective wastewater treatment technologies. MABR is one of these developing technologies. MABR is...