Speaker: Yuli Konayev Title: "Non-null references by default in Java: Alleviating the Nullity annotation burden" by Patrice Chalin, Perry James Abstract: In my talk I'm going to describe the research made by the authors of the article, whose goal was to examine the theory according to which most references in JAVA code are meant to be non-null by the developer's intention. The research and its conclusions encouraged the suggestion of making the non-null annotation a default and by that both make the developer's life easier and decrease the appearance of 'NullPointerException's