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== General Information ==

=== Personal ===

'''Name:''' Volker Strobel

'''Birthdate:''' 10 November 1987

'''Belgian mobile phone:''' +32 483 42 21 04

'''Belgian home adress:''' Avenue Wielemans Ceuppens 138, 1190 Forest / Bruxelles

===ULB-related===

'''PhD started:''' 7 September 2016

'''Matricule ULB:''' 000443899

'''Office phone:''' +32-2-650 27 12

===Projects===



== Work Schedule ==

==== Lab Responsibilities ====

* IRIDIA server maintenance

== Tutorials ==

* [https://www.coursera.org/learn/cryptocurrency/home/welcome Udemy: Ethereum Developer: Build A Decentralised Blockchain App] '''Completed 75 %'''
* [https://www.udemy.com/ethereum-developer/ Coursera: Bitcoin and Cryptocurrency Technologies]

== Literature ==

=== [[Volker_Literature|See separate page]] ===

== FRIA ==
* [https://www.dropbox.com/s/8xvw6slf4adabyi/FRIA_combined.pdf?dl=0 Presentation]
* Ideas for next proposal: [[Volker_Ideas_Proposal | Ideas ]]

== Meetings ==

=== Meeting 27/9/2016 ===

* Continue literature research (read papers mentioned in FRIA proposal)

* Find out which labs are doing blockchain / cryptocurrency / cryptography research (see [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1fRRGMsFYflg0-2N2KCX6oepoqsssloUAyfD86lpmhkc/edit?usp=sharing Google Docs])

=== Meeting 4/10/2016 ===

* Propose literature ([[Volker_Literature|see separate page]])
* Séance d'information sur les financements permettant des mobilités dans le cadre d’un doctorat [https://www.dropbox.com/s/cgcztkr4e3r1vc4/FNRS%20infos%20courts%20s%C3%A9jours%20doct%202016.pdf?dl=0][https://www.dropbox.com/s/qpen05yw1jhw890/ULB%20CCCI%20cr%C3%A9dits%20doctorat%20et%20UC%20Berkeley%202016%202017.pdf?dl=0][https://www.dropbox.com/s/uy4rgl5a521f21y/WBI%20financements%20doct%20s%C3%A9jours%20%C3%A9trangers%202016.pdf?dl=0]
* Practice presentation with Marco, Yasu, Gaetan, and Ken ([[Volker - Comments of Marco, Yasu, Gaetan, and Ken]])

=== Meeting 18/10/2016 ===

* French language course Mon 31 October - Fri 4 November?
* iMAL Blockchain symposium & showcase Friday 4 November 2pm - 6pm (0 EUR) -- http://imal.org/en/activity/blockchain-fact-fiction-future/
* iMAL Hacklab Saturday 5 November (30 EUR)

=== Intermediate Meeting ===
* French language course Mon 31 October - Fri 4 November time: 9am - 1pm

=== Meeting 15/11/2016 ===
* Continued literature research
* Started first web application for smart contracts ([http://164.15.10.157/ http://164.15.10.157/]) with very basic functionality:
** Robots can be added to the swarm
** Miner can issue a premium in Ether as incentive for removing oil
** Oil can be removed by pressing a button -> sender gets rewarded
* Experimented a bit with ARGoS
* Discussed points:
** I need a convincing problem/application that absolutely requires the blockchain (could be very different from oil spill removal)
** I will probably use the e-puck in the real experiments
** Look into PoW/PoS/PoX algorithms and see which one is best for robot swarms (also look into "Physical Proof of Work"); since robots are computationally rather limited, we need a clever algorithm, otherwise, an attacker could easily gain more processing power; also look into which cryptocurrencies use which algorithm; see if it is possible to switch to PoS in Ethereum
** Look into possibilities for light clients (for example, each city/organization could have a node and robots with light clients)