“…The theory of exactly solvable partial differential equations [1][2][3][4], colloquially known as the theory of solitons [5], represents one of the cornerstones of theoretical and mathematical physics. While the technique has been traditionally used mostly as a theoretical framework to describe various nonlinear wave phenomena such as dispersive shock waves [6,7] and modulational instabilities [8][9][10], soliton systems also played an instrumental role in a broader range of physics applications, ranging from experimentally relevant setups with cold atoms and BECs [11], ocean waves [12], physics of plasmas and nonlinear media [13], Josephson junctions and nonlinear optics [14][15][16], and many theoretical concepts including the AdS/CFT correspondence [17,18], Gromov-Witten theory [19], Painlevé transcendents [20][21][22] and random matrix theory [23,24].…”