2026-07-072026-07-07http://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/55225We briefly review recent developments in the theory of supermembranes and supermatrix models. In a second part we discuss their interaction with background fields. In particular, we present the full background field coupling for the bosonic case. This is a short summary of the talk at the workshop. A more extended version will appear elsewhere.LaTeX, sprocl.sty. Contribution to the proceedings of the Valencia workshop 'Beyond the standard model; from theory to experiment', October 13-17, 1997. 8 pages. Typos and omission in eq. (3) corrected and one reference addedHigh Energy Physics - Theorytext