Stellar evolution modeling of low-mass stars with magnetic fields: advances and challenges

Though magnetic fields are commonly believed to play an important role
on the structure and evolution of stars, there have been few attempts so
far to include their effects on stellar evolution models. Specifically
in the case of low-mass stars, those effects could account for some
disparities between standard stellar models predictions and
observations, such as their radii and effective temperatures. In this
talk I will briefly review the modeling techniques for considering the
magnetic field effects on 1-D evolution codes, and also present some
recent results of those techniques as implemented in the ATON stellar
evolution code. Some theoretical and observational challenges to those
results will also be highlighted.