Overview of STAR results on correlations, jets and heavy-flavor production

Measurements of jets and heavy-flavor production play an important role in understanding properties of hot and dense nuclear matter created in high energy heavy-ion collisions. As direct measurements of jets are difficult due to large underlying background, jet properties can be also studied via di-hadron and multihadron correlations. In this contribution to these proceedings, an overview of recent STAR results on correlations, jet-hadron correlations, and heavy-flavor production in Au+Au collisions at top RHIC energy (root s(NN) = 200 GeV) is given. In order to draw quantitative conclusions on properties of the hot and dense nuclear matter created in Au+Au collisions, reference measurements in elementary proton-proton collisions and d+Au collisions are essential to estimate contributions due to cold nuclear matter effects and are discussed as well.