The Symposium on "Novel Topological Quantum Matter" will be held in Feb 25-26, 2013 at the University of Texas at Dallas campus. The symposium is sponsored by the US Army Research Office, the University of Texas at Dallas, and the Joint Quantum Institute at the University of Maryland at College Park. The objective of this symposium is to bring together leading experimentalists and theorists in both condensed matter and cold atomic physics to review the current progress as well as explore future directions on searching for novel topologically-ordered quantum matter in cold atomic and condensed matter systems. The deadline for registration is Feb 1, 2013.