Rajendra Bhatia has made remarkable contributions to Mathematics research and teaching, and to growth of Mathematics in India. He has been honored with various awards including the Medal for Young Scientists of the Indian National Science Academy (INSA) in 1982, the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize of the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) in 1995 and the Hans Schneider Prize of the International Linear Algebra Society (ILAS) in 2016. We are privileged to hold a conference on Matrix and Functional Analysis on the occasion of his turning sixty five in 2017.The focus of the Conference will be on various facets of Matrix Analysis, Functional Analysis and Harmonic Analysis to which Rajendra Bhatia has made widely influential contributions. Some special lectures will be devoted to a survey of his work and the developments arising out of it.