We had a large volume of excellent student presentations again at iEMSs 2024 and with the help of the session organisers and additional volunteer judges, awarded the following student prizes¹ in East Lansing on the final day of the conference:

1^st prize: Douglas Radford for „Process-based aggregation reduces dimensionality and enables surrogate model development: An application to wildfire risk modelling“

2^nd prize: Palok Biswas for „Equity-Informed Multi-objective Optimization: Examining the Regional Distribution of Emission Control“

And a joint 3^rd prize:
Samira Islam for „Tracking Leakage in Water Distribution Networks Using Multi-Agent Systems, Machine Learning, and GPR “
and
Jiayu Yao for “Water distribution system design under long-term uncertainty considering solar energy as a supplementary energy source”

We congratulate all awardees and will send a formal award certificate out to each of them in due course.

_{1) The awards will comprise the following:
1st prize – free registration at student’s preferred iEMSs, regional iEMSs or MODSIM and to be taken before the end of 2028.
2nd prize – €500 to be applied towards travel to iEMSs, regional iEMSs or MODSIM before the end of 2028.
3rd prize €250 to be applied towards travel to iEMSs, regional iEMSs or MODSIM before the end of 2028.}